The “Smallville” Cast: Where Are They Now?

The Smallville series was a unique spin on the early life of Superman, played by Tom Welling, before his superhero career took off. The teen drama lasted for 10 seasons, the first four covering Superman’s high school experience in Smallville, Kansas. The show then followed Clark Kent into his early-adult years and his formative friendships along the way.

The series premiered in 2001 on the WB, but in its fifth season, the WB merged with another network to form the CW.

Over 13 years later, a few of the cast members have made headlines for their run-ins with the police and alleged ties to the mysterious NXIVM self-improvement group. See where they are at now!

Tom Welling

Tom Welling joined a legacy of actors when he signed on to play Clark Kent, a.k.a. Superman, on the American superhero TV series Smallville. Welling, 48, delved into Kent’s life before he became Superman, meaning he never actually wore the red-and-blue superhero suit.

Welling appeared in all 10 seasons of the hit drama series after it debuted in 2001. Although the show took a different approach to the superhero’s storyline, writers still paid tribute to earlier Superman icons like Christopher Reeve and Dean Cain.

Welling is also known for his role in Cheaper by the Dozen, where he played the eldest son, Charlie Baker, the starting quarterback at Midland High School. More recently, Welling worked on the 2013 thriller film Parkland, where he played a Secret Service agent alongside Zac Efron.

He also played a doctor in Nicholas Sparks’ movie The Choice with Theresa Palmer and Benjamin Walker.

The actor married model Jamie White Welling in 2002, and they were together for 10 years before finalizing their divorce in 2015. Around the same time, Welling began posting photos with Jessica Rose Lee. They announced their engagement three years later when they both referred to each other as “fiancé” on Instagram.

He and Lee welcomed their first child, Thomson Wylde, in 2019 and their second child, Rocklin Von, in 2021.

In January 2025, the actor had a run-in with the police after being pulled over while driving under the influence in Yreka, Calif., according to an arrest and booking report obtained by USA Today. He was arrested by a police officer before being booked into the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office. Welling was released the following morning.

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Michael Rosenbaum

Michael Rosenbaum was cast as Lex Luthor on the WB’s Smallville from 2001 to 2008, when he declined to sign on for another season. Despite leaving his role, Rosenbaum returned for the two-hour series finale in 2011, much to the delight of fans.

Rosenbaum’s character was befriended by Clark Kent after he attempted to drive his car off a bridge before Kent came to his rescue. However, Luthor’s obsession with Kent’s secret eventually destroyed their friendship.

Since leaving Smallville, Rosenbaum, 52, played Martinex, the first officer of the Stakar Ravager Clan, in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

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Kristin Kreuk

Kristin Kreuk is a Canadian actress who began her acting career playing Laurel Yeung on Edgemont in 2000. Kreuk’s career took off when she landed a role in Smallville playing Lana Lang, Kent’s love interest before he met Lois Lane. She stayed on for seven seasons before leaving, but came back for five episodes in the eighth season.

In 2018, Kreuk, 42, was named in a New York Post report as a member of NXIVM, a mysterious self-improvement group led by Keith Raniere. Raniere was arrested in March 2018, after several sex trafficking and forced labor charges were filed in New York City.

The Smallville alum released a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, denying any involvement.

“The accusations that I was in the ‘inner circle’ or recruited women as ‘sex slaves’ are blatantly false,” Kreuk wrote in the statement.

In 2019, Kreuk made an appearance alongside fellow Smallville costars Welling and Rosenbaum at the Fan Expo Dallas, eight years after the series finale.

Allison Mack

Allison Mack played Chloe Sullivan on Smallville for nine seasons, earning the Teen Choice Award for Best Sidekick in 2006 and 2007. Mack, 42, even had her own miniseries, Smallville’s Vengeance Chronicles, in 2006.

In 2018, Mack was arrested and charged with sex trafficking and other crimes in connection with the controversial group NXIVM.

According to a statement, Mack was accused of recruiting women to join what was purported to be a female mentorship group to address their weaknesses. However, it was instead found to be a group created by Raniere, who allegedly took advantage of the women sexually.

Mack was initially sentenced to 14 years behind bars, but because of her cooperation with the investigation, her sentence was lessened to three years in prison, according to Forbes. She was released in July 2023.

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Justin Hartley

Before Smallville, Justin Hartley acted on NBC’s soap opera Passions. When Hartley was picked up by Smallville, he started with a seven-episode run as billionaire Oliver Queen. He later returned as a regular cast member following Kreuk, Rosenbaum, Laura Vandervoort, and John Glover’s departure from the series.

In 2014, Hartley was cast as Adam Newman on CBS’s hit daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless before going on to play Kevin in NBC’s drama This Is Us. Most recently, Hartley, 48, was cast as the lead in CBS’s Tracker, playing a lone-wolf survivalist named Colter Shaw.

Hartley married Passions co-star Lindsay Korman in 2004. Korman gave birth to their daughter, Isabella Justice Hartley, in 2004. After eight years of marriage, it was announced on May 6, 2012, that Korman had filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.”

In 2017, Hartley married Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause during a small ceremony at Malibu’s Calamigos Ranch. However, in 2019, the actor filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Hartley secretly married former The Young and the Restless costar Sofia Pernas in May 2021.

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Erica Durance

Erica Durance’s breakout role came as Lois Lane, Clark Kent’s love interest, on Smallville. Durance, 46, landed a recurring role in season four and was promoted to a series regular in season five. In 2012, she was cast as the lead, Dr. Alex Reid, in the medical drama Saving Hope.

Since then, Durance has embraced many acting roles for Hallmark and Lifetime films, including Private Princess Christmas, Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane and The Enchanted Christmas Cake.

Annette O’Toole

Annette O’Toole got her television start in 1967 on the variety show The Danny Kaye Show. She also played Beverly Marsh in a miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel It in 1990.

O’Toole’s role as Martha Kent, Clark Kent’s adoptive mother, on Smallville wasn’t her first role in the Superman mythos. In 1983, O’Toole, 73, played Lana Lang, Kent’s love interest in Superman III.

The actress currently portrays the town gossip, Hope McCrea, in Netflix’s Virgin River, which is in its sixth season.

O’Toole married actor Michael McKean in 1999 after they were cast together in the 1998 Lifetime movie Final Justice. The couple have been happily married ever since.

The two musicians worked together on three songs for the movie A Mighty Wind during a long drive from Los Angeles to Vancouver.

John Glover

John Glover has been a go-to villain actor for decades, which is why he was cast as Lionel Luthor, the father of Lex Luthor, in Smallville.

Prior to the Superman series, Glover, 80, appeared in an episode of Miami Vice, “Lend Me an Ear,” and several episodes of Murder, She Wrote. In 1985, Glover received an Emmy for his part in Early Frost where he played an AIDS patient. He also played Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

Glover dated and later married sculptor Adam Kurtzman in 2016.

Cassidy Freeman

Cassidy Freeman portrayed the CEO of LuthorCorp, Tess Mercer, in the superhero series. She joined the cast in 2008, after Rosenbaum left the show. She stayed on in her role until the series finale in 2011.

In 2012, Freeman, 43, took a recurring role on The Vampire Diaries for three episodes as Sage. More recently, she starred as Cady Longmire in the A&E Western crime-drama show Longmire for five years. In the HBO series The Righteous Gemstone, Freeman plays Amber Gemstone.

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John Schneider

In the Superman series, the former Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider played the adoptive father to Clark Kent and husband of O’Toole’s character. Schneider, 65, acted in 100 episodes during the series’ run, and he even directed a few of the episodes.

Schneider went on to appear in shows such as Walker, Texas Ranger, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Desperate Housewives, among others.

In 2018, Schneider danced on Dancing with the Stars, where he was partnered up with professional dancer Emma Slater.

Schneider tied the knot “in the eyes of God” with Alicia Allain Schneider in 2019 after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Schneider lost his wife at age 53 to cancer in 2023.

“Somehow I love her more every minute, but with that, somehow I miss her more every minute,” he told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview.

In 2024, Schneider entered into his fourth marriage with Dee Dee Sorvino, who had also lost her spouse.

“God sent a widower to a widow and a widow to a widower who [gets] it, who understands,” he said of his relationship during an appearance on Grace Begins, The Podcast.

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