What Really Happened To Aimee Teegarden After Playing Julie On Friday Night Lights?
Highlights
- Aimee Teegarden's TV career after Friday Night Lights has had its ups and downs, with some shows being canceled after one season.
- Teegarden has also pursued a career in film, starring in various genres including horror, teen comedy, and Hallmark movies.
- While Teegarden keeps her personal life private, she cherishes her time on Friday Night Lights and recognizes the special experience it was in her life.
Countless people watched Friday Night Lights even though they didn't love sports or know all that much about football. The premise was too juicy to ignore: teenagers living in Dillon, Texas and supporting the high school team's path to victory, despite all the obstacles in their way.
For the most part, when fans look back on the show, they think about the talented Connie Britton who played Coach Taylor's tough but kind wife Tami Taylor. Britton enjoyed her Friday Night Lights role and then starred in season 1 of The White Lotus, proving that she can play any strong-willed character. There are other cast members who fans are curious about, though, and that includes Aimee Teegarden. Here's what she has been doing since playing Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights.
What Happened To Aimee Teegarden's TV Career After Friday Night Lights?
While Friday Night Lights star Jeremy Sumpter began acting again several years after the show wrapped, Aimee Teegarden never stopped.
But since she never played a role as impactful as Julie Taylor, people might not have noticed her as much.
Aimee Teegarden's TV career after Friday Night Lights hasn't been incredibly smooth. After playing Amanda Miles in the web series Aim High from 2011 to 2013, she played Nikki in four episodes of the comedy The Ranch and Ella Benjamin in the crime series Notorious.
It's always frustrating when an actor is cast in a TV series and it gets canceled after one season. That's what happened to Aimee Teegarden when she was cast as the lead, Emery Whitehill, on the CW sci-fi show Star-Crossed. The show is about a world where aliens called Atrians and humans co-exist. Emery is a teenager in Edendale, Louisiana whose love interest is Roman, an alien played by Matt Lanter.
Only 13 episodes aired in 2014, which was too bad since the actress sounded really happy about the project.
In 2013, Teegarden spoke to Showbiz Junkies and said that because of her brother, she was a Star Wars fan when she was a kid. She has always liked the sci-fi genre and was thrilled to be part of this show. Unfortunately, the show didn't have high enough ratings to continue for a second season.
Sometimes, a project doesn't even really get off the ground. Unfortunately, that has happened to Aimee Teegarden as well. In 2012, Deadline reported that Kiera Cass's YA book series The Selection was being adapted for The CW. At that point, it was still in the pilot stage.
The Selection is about a compelling world that is very different from this one. The characters are broken up into different systems. Teegarden was cast as the main character America Singer, a creative person who doesn't like being told what to do. But, while Just Jared Jr. shared photos from the filming of The Selection pilot, it didn't end up airing. In May 2013, Deadline reported that The CW actually made two pilot episodes that didn't work out.
It must have been incredibly disappointing to have these projects end so soon. Teegarden seems to have maintained a good attitude throughout her career, though.
What Happened To Aimee Teegarden's Movie Career After Friday Night Lights?
Although Aimee Teegarden found fame as a result of Friday Night Lights, she has also worked toward a career in film. When Friday Night Lights aired its series finale in the spring of 2011, Teegarden's fans got the chance to see her in the opening scene of the horror movie Scream 4. This was a cool departure for the actress.
She also starred in the teen comedy Prom, the drama Love And Honor, and the comforting comedy Bakery in Brooklyn.
In recent years, though, Aimee Teegarden has moved into the Hallmark movie genre, and this seems to be a good place for her. She starred in My Christmas Family Tree, Christmas Class Reunion, Heart of the Matter, and Autumn in the City.
Teegarden was interviewed about Hallmark by TV Fanatic and shared that she likes the feelings associated with this type of movie. She said, "there's so much opportunity to really start conversations, and for people to have more of a dialogue around some of these heavier emotions in life."
While some might say that Aimee Teegarden's TV and film career has felt a little random since Friday Night Lights, she doesn't seem to view it that way. Instead, she likes starring in all kinds of projects.
Teegarden chatted about Rings, the 2017 horror movie that she starred in, with Daily Dead and she said, "My philosophy with my career is mostly to just mix it up with a little bit of everything in moderation. And that’s what makes my job so great, is that I get to constantly do different things, put on different hats, be different people, and mixing up the genre really lends itself to that."
What Happened To Aimee Teegarden's Personal Life About Friday Night Lights?
Aimee Teegarden has a less public personal life than some of her Friday Night Lights co-stars. This seems to be a choice, though.
When the actress posts on Instagram, she tells fans about her vacations and her beloved dog, who passed away. She also gets more personal sometimes, like when she shared in February 2021 that her mother had died from heart disease.
She doesn't post about who she is dating, though. It's unclear if she is in a relationship. According to Us Weekly, people think that Teegarden has been in a relationship with Chris Skinner. She hasn't confirmed this romance.
Rather than going into detail about her relationships or other parts of her personal life, Aimee Teegarden seems the most comfortable discussing acting. She has said that she knows how special Friday Night Lights is. She told Nylon in an interview in 2016, "That show was just—it’s alchemy. It’s everything happening when it needs to happen and the right pieces sort of fall together. And Kyle Chandler, I remember, he used to say to us, "You kids, you have no idea how good you have it. You have no idea.'"
Teegarden continued to Nylon, "So I think, at the time, we all kind of just really tried to enjoy it as much as possible, and it was just such a special show and it was an amazing time in my life."
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