Where Is the “Three’s Company ”Cast Now? Here’s What Happened to the Stars After the Iconic Sitcom Ended
Where Is the “Three’s Company ”Cast Now? Here’s What Happened to the Stars After the Iconic Sitcom Ended
Julie Tremaine, Kelly AllenWed, September 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM UTC
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Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, Don Knotts and John Ritter in ‘Three’s Company’Credit: Dennis Plehn/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty -
Three’s Company ran for eight seasons between 1977 and 1984
John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Don Knotts and more starred in the sitcom
Much of the cast continued to pursue careers in entertainment following their time on the series
Three’s Company remains a nostalgic rewatch, even though it’s been nearly 50 years since the show went off air.
The sitcom starred John Ritter as Jack Tripper, Joyce DeWitt as Janet Wood and Suzanne Somers as Chrissy Snow — three eccentric roommates who weren’t supposed to be living together due to the landlord’s rules.
The cast’s chemistry and comedic timing defined the show, which aired for 172 episodes across eight seasons between 1977 and 1984. DeWitt recalled going all in on the physical comedy without “any hesitation or regard for safety or how you’re going to fall” while speaking with PEOPLE in September.
“You rehearse it like choreography so that you know the other person is safe and you will be too. Then you just fly at each other with all your energy and hope you bounce correctly backwards and that you survive it,” she said. “And the fun of that is extraordinary. And the audience, I think, can see and feel the realness of it and get caught up in the play of it, which is so joyful.”
So, where is the Three’s Company cast now? Here’s everything to know about what happened to them after the iconic sitcom ended.
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John Ritter as Jack Tripper
John Ritter as Jack Tripper in ‘Three’s Company’ ; John Ritter during the Premiere of “The Tadpole” on July 15, 2002 in New York City.Credit: Everett Collection ; Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic
On Three’s Company, Ritter played Jack, the third roommate in Janet and Chrissy’s two-bedroom apartment. He had already been working steadily in Hollywood for a decade before the show, including a recurring role on The Waltons, but it was Three’s Company that made him a star.
Ritter had a knack for physical comedy, which DeWitt told PEOPLE instantly harmonized with her own.
“I always say we communicated kinesthetically,” DeWitt said in September. “We didn’t even have to talk. My body knew what his body was going to do and his knew what mine was going to do. And that was just there from the moment that we met.”
After the show went off the air, Ritter starred in one of the show’s spinoffs, Three’s a Crowd, which lasted for one season between 1984 and 1985. He also starred in other long-running shows, like Hooperman from 1987 to 1989, Hearts Afire with Markie Post and Billy Bob Thornton between 1992 and 1995, Clifford the Big Red Dog from 2000 to 2003 and 8 Simple Ruleswith Kaley Cuoco from 2002 until his untimely death in 2003.
Ritter also starred in films like Problem Child and Problem Child 2, Sling Blade, Bad Santa and Bride of Chucky; and the original TV adaptation of Stephen King’s IT.
While filming 8 Simple Rules on Sept. 11, 2003, Ritter fell ill on set and was rushed to the hospital, where he was incorrectly diagnosed with a heart attack, which was actually a tear in his aorta. He died that night.
Ritter was married twice: to Nancy Morgan from 1977 to 1996, and to Amy Yasbeck from 1999 until his death. With Morgan, he had three kids: actor Jason Ritter, born in 1980; musician Carly Ritter, born in 1982; and actor Tyler Ritter, born in 1985. With Yasbeck, he had son Noah Ritter, born in 1998.
Since his father’s death, Ritter’s kids have gotten yearly preventive scans to care for their health, Jason told PEOPLE in September.
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Suzanne Somers as Chrissy Snow
Suzanne Somers as Chrissy Snow in ‘Three’s Company’ ; Suzanne Somers visits Extra on February 19, 2020 in Burbank, California.Credit: Robert Phillips / TV Guide /courtesy Everett Collection ; Paul Archuleta/Getty
Somers played Chrissy, the bubbly secretary roommate.
She had small roles in films like American Graffiti before Three’s Company, but the show was her breakout role. However, she only appeared in the first four seasons. After a contract dispute — in which she demanded equal pay as her male costar — Somers was fired and replaced with Jenilee Harrison, playing Chrissy’s cousin, Cindy.
“The show’s response was, ‘Who do you think you are?’ ” Somers told PEOPLE in March 2020. “They said, ‘John Ritter is the star.’ ”
After being fired, Somers said, her offers dried up. “I probably would have never left network series,” she added. “I would have kept on going and probably been in every sitcom after that were it not to end the way it ended. But I was ostracized. So I went away.”
In that absence from television, she worked in Las Vegas, but then became the face of ThighMaster, an iconically 1990s piece of exercise equipment; she and husband Alan Hamel invested in the company and eventually sold 10 million units, per Today.com. She went on to launch a skincare brand and became an author several times over.
Somers had a show, She’s the Sheriff, from 1987 to 1989, and made her TV comeback as the mother of a Brady Bunch-style blended family on Step by Step, which aired for 160 episodes across eight seasons from 1991 to 1998.
She was married twice: to Bruce Somers Sr., with whom she had son Bruce Somers Jr., born in 1965; and to Hamel, whom she married in 1977. Somers died of complications from breast cancer on Oct. 15, 2023.
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Joyce DeWitt as Janet Wood
Joyce DeWitt as Janet Wood in ‘Three’s Company’ ; Joyce DeWitt attends “An Evening From the Heart LA” on May 09, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Everett Collection ; Rodin Eckenroth/Getty
DeWitt’s breakout role was as Janet, the sassy florist who lives in the apartment; she stayed with the show for all eight seasons.
“Whenever something about Three’s Company comes up, I have relentlessly said that it is my opinion that the only reason Three’s Company is worth remembering is that it created an opportunity for all of us to laugh together, to celebrate joy,” she said on Suzanne Somers: Breaking Through in 2012.
In September, DeWitt told PEOPLE it’s “mind-blowing” people are laughing at the show nearly 50 years later and she’s glad the sitcom has that staying power. “If as an actor you are given the opportunity to do something that will cause laughter, it’s a great gift that you get to do this,” she added.
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After the show, DeWitt has focused mainly on stage work, appearing across the country in theatrical productions.
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Don Knotts as Mr. Furley
Don Knotts as Mr. Furley in ‘Three’s Company’ ; Don Knotts at the 2nd Annual TV Land Awards on March 7, 2004 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Everett Collection ; SGranitz/WireImage
Comedic actor Don Knotts was already famous for his Emmy Award-winning role as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Showwhen he joined the cast of Three’s Company in its fourth season, replacing Mr. Roper as the trio’s nosy landlord. He appeared on the show for 115 episodes.
“He made me laugh so much,” Ritter’s son Jason told PEOPLE in March 2025 of watching Knotts on Three’s Company. “And his facial expressions and just his whole vibe was so funny to me on that show. And so it was a thrill for me to see him, to meet him.”
Three’s Company was Knott’s last major role on television, but he did appear in 18 episodes of former costar and good friend Andy Griffith’s Matlock from 1988 to 1992, and in movies like Cannonball Run II and Pleasantville.
He was married three times. With his first wife Kathryn Metz, he welcomed two children: Karen, born in 1954, and Thomas, born in 1957. He was married to his second wife, Loralee Czuchna, from 1974 to 1983. In 2002, Knotts married his third wife, actress Frances Yarborough, whom he was married to until he died of complications from lung cancer on Feb. 24, 2006.
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Priscilla Barnes as Terri Alden
Priscilla Barnes as Terri Alden in ‘Three’s Company’ ; Priscilla Barnes at The Evening from the Heart LA Gala on September 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Credit: Everett Collection ; Jesse Grant/Variety via Getty
The day Cindy moved out of the apartment, Jack found a new roommate: Terri Alden (Priscilla Barnes), a nurse who treated him for a cut in the ER. Barnes joined the show in season 6 and stayed through the end.
At a May 2023 benefit for the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health, Barnes told PEOPLE about what the late actor was like on the set of their show.
“It was good that way, because when you do other shows, you get all different kinds of personalities, and a show was run by number one on the call sheet,” she said. “So if he had had a different personality, it would’ve been a different experience.”
In 1999, Barnes appeared with Jason in Mumford. “Jason and I had done a film together, a movie called Mumford, but he was 19 years old and I hadn’t seen him since he was 5 and screaming in the dressing room before our show,” she added. “That was a pleasure.”
Barnes was also in films like Mallrats and The Devil’s Rejects. From 2014 to 2019, she had a recurring role on Jane the Virgin.
She has been married to husband Ted Monte since 2003.
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Norman Fell as Mr. Roper
Norman Fell in ‘Three’s Company’.Credit: Everett Collection
Norman Fell won a Golden Globe for his role as the curmudgeonly landlord Mr. Roper on the first four seasons of the show, until he and TV wife, Audra Lindley, got their own spinoff, The Ropers. The show lasted one season from 1979 to 1980.
Fell became so well-known for his Three’s Company role that he struggled to land another series. “I walk down the street,” he said in an interview years later, “and I’m still [called] Mr. Roper.”
Fell had roles in films like Transylvania 6-5000 and For the Boys. He died on Dec. 14, 1998.
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Audra Lindley as Mrs. Roper
Audra Lindley in ‘Three’s Company’.Credit: Everett Collection
Lindley played Mrs. Roper, the comedic foil to her grumpy husband. Like her on-screen husband, Fell, Lindley left Three’s Company for The Ropers.
She became a cultural icon, especially for her character’s fashion sense: her iconic caftans still have a place in the zeitgeist.
Lindley appeared in films like The Relic and Troop Beverly Hills. She died in October 1997 after being diagnosed with leukemia.
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Richard Kline as Larry Dallas
Richard Kline in ‘Three’s Company’; Richard Kline in 2025Credit: ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; JC Olivera/Getty
Richard Kline played Larry Dallas, a used car salesman and Jack’s best friend who appeared in 130 episodes of Three’s Company.
Following the sitcom, the actor got involved in theater and made appearances on several TV shows including Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Punky Brewster and Gilmore Girls. He continues to act, appearing in various productions including Blue Bloods.
Kline is also passionate about sharing his acting expertise. In May, he led a comedy workshop at the Pottsville Film Festival in Connecticut.
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