And Just Like That may now be dead but we'll always have the heady heyday of Sex and the City.
We followed Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) from their 30s well into their 50s over the course of six seasons, two movies and the sequel show – but the original episodes will always have a special place in the heart of fans.
Remember Carrie meeting Carrie (Fisher)? How about making out with a lovely but psychiatrically unstable beau played by David Duchovny? Did you even realise another boyfriend was Timothy Olyphant? Well, buckle up because we're about to take a seriously star-studded trip down memory lane.
Here are some Sex and the City cameos you may have totally forgotten about.
1. Carrie Fisher (herself)
Season 3, episode 14 – Sex and Another City
When Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha's escapades take them out of their (literal and spiritual) home of New York City over to the West Coast and the sun, sea and salads of Los Angeles, celeb cameos abound. But arguably none is more A-list than that of Star Wars legend Carrie Fisher, who plays the disgruntled owner of a luxury mansion in the Hills, used by Carrie and another big name celeb guest star (more on that soon...) as a shag pad – even if she does think it belong to him. They're soon interrupted by Fisher and Carrie is left apologising profusely while simultaneously trying to strike up a rapport with a fellow Carrie. It doesn't work.
2. Justin Theroux (Jared/Vaughn Wysel)
Season 1, episode 7 – The Monogamists
Season 2, episode 15 – Shortcomings
Poor Justin Theroux. The actor and screenwriter, who usually plays slick, yuppie-types (American Psycho and The Girl on the Train are among some of his previous credits) found himself playing not one, but two pretentious writers in New York.
In season 1, Theroux was cast as a stuck-up writer in his twenties who chats Carrie up at a bar. In season 2, he appeared in a more developed role as another writer, Vaughn. While Carrie loves Vaughn’s cosmopolitan and liberal family, she doesn’t feel any sexual connection, which wasn't helped by Vaughn's struggles with premature ejaculation.
3. Bradley Cooper
Season 2, episode 4 – They Shoot Single People Don’t They?
In his first ever TV role before he was considered an international sex symbol, Bradley Cooper played Jake, who locked lips with Carrie as she tried to put her abysmal New York magazine cover behind her.
After he nipped into the shops to buy a packet of cigarettes, he confronted Carrie with her Single and Fabulous cover, which saw her storm out of his convertible and sashay home.
4. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Debbie)
Season 3, episode 13 – Escape from New York
The LA episodes saw Carrie cross paths with plenty of famous faces, including Buffy the Vampire and I Know What You Did Last Summer star Sarah Michelle Gellar. With Carrie in California to dip her toe into the Hollywood scene and an opportunity to have her columns adapted for movie, her publicists book her a meeting with young, ambitious junior development executive Debbie (played by SMG). And it's the unflappable Debbie that, in turn, puts Carrie in touch with...
5. Matthew McConaughey (himself)
Season 3, episode 13 – Escape from New York
Hollywood movie star Matthew McConaughey plays himself – or a version of himself that's interested in adapting Carrie's columns for the big screen. And he's got his eye on the role of Mr Big. "Look at him, he's such a great guy," he tells a flabbergasted Carrie. "I mean, I don't know anybody any cooler than Mr Big. The only question is, really, what the f*** is Carrie's problem?" Suffice to say the meeting doesn't go all that well when he dips into (intense) character as a horrifying hybrid of a McConaughey caricature and the actual Big.
6. Alan Cumming (Oscar, AKA 'O')
Season 4, episode 2 – The Real Me
The screen legend, best known for his roles in Emma, GoldenEye and The Good Wife, was one of the many celebrity cameos in the incredibly cringeworthy The Real Me (season 4, episode 2). Cumming featured as a flamboyant fashion designer for Dolce and Gabbana who convinced Carrie to walk in a New York fashion show wearing a blue blazer and a tiny pair of bejewelled panties. It may have been considered a look, but it wasn’t one Carrie wore well, especially when she fell face-first on the catwalk.
7. Will Arnett (Jack)
Season 2, episode 12 – La Doleur Exquise!
Before he played a depressed horse, Will Arnett had a brief dalliance with Miranda in season 2. While Carrie was trying to process the news that Big was moving to Paris, Miranda was excited about her burgeoning new relationship with a guy she met at a book swap. They seemed to be perfect for one another on paper, with their relationship heating up when Miranda discovered that her new love interest only liked to have sex in public. Obviously, they were not built to last...
8. Jon Bon Jovi (Seth)
Season 2, episode 13 – Games People Play
After Carrie’s second huge break-up with Big – which saw Carrie running around New York announcing she was “better off without him” – her tired friends insisted that she cart herself off to therapy. Given her seamless ability to find a date anywhere, Carrie met Seth in her therapist’s waiting room in season 2.
Seth was played by none other than Jon Bon Jovi, whose character admitted he was in counselling because he had sex with women and then ghosted them. Carrie sure knows how to pick 'em.
9. Lucy Liu (herself)
Season 4, episode 11 – Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
An actual Angel graced Sex and the City with her presence in season 4, when Lucy Liu played herself as celeb client of PR executive Samantha. The pair bond initially but it all falls apart when the Kill Bill Vol 2 star finds out Samantha used her name to get herself a Birkin from Hermes. Cue major drama, lots of F-bombs.
10. Vince Vaughn (Keith Travers)
Season 3, episode 14 – Sex and Another City
Even when they weren't in the city, there was still plenty of sex for Carrie and the girls. In Sex and Another City, they'd all fled Manhattan for a holiday in Los Angeles, which led Carrie to Keith Travers. While Keith, played by Hollywood regular Vince Vaughn, gave the impression that he was oh-so-debonair and wealthy, it turned out that he was merely someone who housesat for Carrie Fisher. Not a bad gig, if you ask us.
11. Jennifer Coolidge (Victoria)
Season 6, episode 3 – The Perfect Present
Two things that go so perfectly hand-in-hand we're surprised more people don't immediately remember them colliding: comedy sensation Jennifer Coolidge and Sex and the City. Playing a friend of the main foursome, she brought her inimitable chaotic single girl energy to the series as Victoria, who recently went through a breakup and channels her energy into making hideous purses – which she then flogs to her pals at a 'Purse Party'. Her emotions catch up with her and breakup turns breakdown in the middle of the event.
12. Timothy Olyphant (Sam)
Season 1, episode 4 – Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys
Barely recognisable as 20-something Sam (even when Carrie isn't stuck to his face during the episode), a youthful Timothy Olyphant appeared in a single episode of Sex and the City in one of his earliest acting roles. Part of a storyline about our four protagonists hooking up with younger men, he's a fleeting fancy for Carrie, for whom the allure of the tongue piercing and high energy levels soon wanes when she faces the reality of his apartment – bongs, grubby roommate, lack of coffee filters and all.
13. David Duchovny (Jeremy)
Season 6, episode 10 – Boy, Interrupted
Carrie briefly reunited with her high school boyfriend in season 6. While she expected Jeremy to be a bit of a loser, it turned out that her old flame, played by David Duchovny, certainly had the X factor and the pair quickly reignited their romance – that is until Carrie discovered that he was actually in a rehabilitation facility following a breakdown.
14. Kristen Johnston (Lexi Featherstone)
Season 6, episode 18 – Splat!
There's rarely been a cameo role as iconic as that of Kristen Johnston's in Sex and the City's final season. Playing the titular Splat herself, the actress – best known for her role in 3rd Rock from the Sun – is an ageing party girl who's sick of everyone growing old and boring. Running into Carrie and co at a party, she memorably rails against a 'no smoking' rule set by the host.
"When did everybody stop smoking?" she rants. "When did everybody pair off" This used to be the most exciting city in the world and now it's nothing but smoking near a f***ing open window. New York is over. O-V-E-R. Over. No one's fun anymore. Whatever happened to fun? God, I'm so bored, I could die." Her final, portentous words, delivered as only an icon could: Lexi immediately falls out of that open window.
15. John Slattery (Bill Kelley)
Season 3, episode 1 and 2 – Where There's Smoke, Politically Erect
It's only fitting that John Slattery, who is known for playing suave characters in Mad Men, Veep and Spotlight, was cast as a similarly charming persona in Sex and the City. In the first two episodes of season 3, Slattery wooed Carrie as politician Bill Kelley, with Bradshaw's character very much enjoying her very own ‘Jackie O’ era. However, things quickly stopped being quite so politically correct when Bill revealed he was a fan of golden showers – and asked Carrie if she’d like to partake.
Despite being a sex columnist, Carrie refused to acquiesce and the relationship reached an uncomfortable ending.
16. Elizabeth Banks (Catherine)
Season 3, episode 2 – Politically Erect
Long before she was Hollywood star, director and producer Elizabeth Banks, the future Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect actress had a bit part in SATC, briefly crossing paths with Charlotte at a fundraising party for Carrie's then-boyfriend, politician Bill Kelley (John Slattery). Charlotte is hitting things off with Catherine's (Banks) husband, in fact, when she finds out they're married. Banks's character explains that she actually met him at a party where all the woman were asked to bring a man they were no longer interested in. Charlotte's sold straight away: "One woman's trash is another woman's treasure."
17. Kat Dennings
Season 3, episode 15 – Hot Child in the City
It’s not just men who had juicy debut roles in Sex and the City. Marvel mainstay Kat Dennings landed her first on-screen role when she played a bratty but incredibly rich teenager who hired Samantha to do the PR for her Bat Mitzvah in Hot Child in the City (season 3, episode 15).
18. Bobby Cannavale (Adam Ball)
Season 3, episode 9 – Easy Come, Easy Go
Few storyline are more memorable than that of Samantha and her man de jour in Easy Come, Easy Go, which is why Bobby Cannavale probably goes down in history as one of the most famous SATC cameos. Best remembered not as Adam Ball but as the "guy with the funkiest tasting sp**k", he's got one very specific problem in the bedroom department – or rather, Samantha does. Wheatgrass shots don't solve it so, sadly, their season 3 romance is short-lived.
19. Alanis Morissette (Dawn)
Season 3, episode 4 – Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl
Carrie found it a jagged little pill to swallow when she dated Sean in Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, who was bisexual. The pair attended a party together, where they met his friend and ex Dawn, played by Alanis Morissette, who Carrie ended up kissing during a game of spin the bottle. Following that encounter, Carrie realised that she wasn't comfortable in the relationship and left Sean.
The episode has since drawn heavy criticism for its biphobic attitudes, with a particular point of contention being the girls describing bisexuality as “a layover to Gaytown" during brunch.
20. Geri Halliwell-Horner (Phoebe)
Season 6, episode 10 – Boy, Interrupted
Ginger Spice herself turned up in Manhattan as Phoebe, a British socialite who bragged to Samantha about her Soho House membership in Boy, Interrupted (season 6, episode 10). Jealous of Phoebe’s on-demand access to a pool during the sweltering New York summer, Samantha managed to obtain entry to the exclusive members' club by pretending to be the wealthy Annabelle Bronstein.
21. Tony Hale (Tiger)
Season 4, episode 2 – The Real Me
Before he was Buster Bluth in Arrested Development, actor and comedian Tony Hale was an assistant to a photographer shooting Samantha's eye-popping full-frontal nude portraits on Sex and the City. A tiny cameo, what sticks in the mind is his understandably stunned expression when our queen Samantha stripped off.
22. Chandra Wilson (Police officer)
Season 5, episode 1 – Anchors Away
A blink-and-you-miss-it appearance, future Grey's Anatomy star Chandra Wilson plays a police officer who tries to stop Samantha from flyering ex-boyfriend Richard Wright's (James Remar) neighbourhood with bright pink posters branding him a cheater after she catches him in the act with another woman. When Wilson's unnamed cop finds out the justification behind it, however, she gives her the go-ahead.
23. Andy Cohen (Shoe sales assistant)
Season 6, episode 13 – Let There Be Light
SJP's real-life friend Andy Cohen nabbed himself a small role as a sales assistant in the final season, helping Carrie try on shoes at a department store while Charlotte's stumbling around (unassisted) in a blindfold as she tries to understand what it would be like to be blind before signing up as a charity volunteer.
24. Carrie Preston (Madeline Dunn)
Season 2, episode 7 – The Chicken Dance
Interior designer Madeline Dunn (played by The Good Wife and True Blood star Carrie Preston) works for Miranda in season 2, helping to furnish and decorate her new flat. She soon incurs Miranda's wrath when she catches the eye of Miranda's longtime friend Jeremy (Stephen Barker Turner) – with whom Miranda had been hoping to take things to the next level. It's love at first sight and the pair are soon married, much to Miranda's irritation.
25. Jim Gaffigan (Doug)
Season 4, Episode 3 – Defining Moments
A boyfriend of Miranda's in season 4, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan played Doug, known to SATC fans as having no boundaries. He's prone to leaving the bathroom door open, a privacy/intimacy issue Miranda is simply unable to overcome.
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