{"id":71385,"date":"2025-08-10T02:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71385\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:27:33","slug":"iconic-actress-59-is-unrecognizable-20-years-after-starring-with-helen-hunt-in-twister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71385\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Actress, 59, Is Unrecognizable 20 Years After Starring With Helen Hunt in ‘Twister’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iconic Actress, 59, Is Unrecognizable 20 Years After Starring With Helen Hunt in ‘Twister’<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jami Gertz<\/a> was unrecognizable during a recent outing 20 years after starring with Helen Hunt<\/a> in Twister.<\/p>\n

During this past week, the actress, 59, was spotted while out and about in Los Angeles in pictures obtained by the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

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Gertz, who also appeared alongside Molly Ringwald<\/a> in Sixteen Candles<\/a>, reportedly grabbed a bite to eat at the restaurant Alba.<\/p>\n

For the dinner excursion, she rocked a black and white striped suit with floral embellishments and black shoes. The talent behind Twister’s Dr. Melissa Reeves accessorized with large, gold earrings, a gold necklace, black-framed glasses and a black clutch, wearing her natural gray hair down and tucked partially behind her ears.<\/p>\n

See the photos of Gertz looking unlike her Twister character here.<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to starring in\u00a0Sixteen Candles\u00a0(1984) and\u00a0Twister\u00a0(1996), Gertz is known for 1987\u2019s\u00a0The Lost Boys\u00a0and the TV series\u00a0Still Standing. Most recently, she appearing in the 2022 film\u00a0I Want You Back.<\/p>\n

These days, Gertz has taken a step back from acting. She is married to businessman\u00a0Tony Ressler\u2014owner of the Atlanta Hawks\u2014and they share four kids: Oliver, Nicholas, Theo and Abigail.<\/p>\n

Gertz is now considered the world’s wealthiest actress<\/a> because of her marriage to Ressler.<\/p>\n

Next: Iconic \u201990s Actress, 61, Stuns in Itty-Bitty Bikini With Natural Aging Appearance<\/a><\/p>\n

Iconic Actress, 59, Is Unrecognizable 20 Years After Starring With Helen Hunt in ‘Twister’<\/a> first appeared on Parade on Aug 9, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Aug 9, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iconic Actress, 59, Is Unrecognizable 20 Years After Starring With Helen Hunt in ‘Twister’ originally appeared on Parade.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[6417,236,88,19948,51354,51355,51356,51358,51357],"class_list":{"0":"post-71385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-helen-hunt","12":"tag-jami-gertz","13":"tag-molly-ringwald","14":"tag-sixteen-candles","15":"tag-tony-ressler","16":"tag-twister"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}