Where Is the ‘Bones’ Cast Now?

No one in America ever went broke making a network primetime show about hot cops falling in love and looking at corpses. Bones, which ran on Fox from 2005 until 2017, stands as a testament to this fact. 

Statistically, that show lasted longer than any job you’ve ever had, all thanks to the undeniable drawing powers of justice, will they/won’t they, and prop cadavers with bits of stuff on them. Regular cast members enjoyed the benefits of the dying days of television residuals. Some became household names. Others probably just enjoyed the peace of mind afforded by SAG health insurance. Here’s a look at where a few of them are today.

Emily Deschanel

Known within her secret government subterranean Deschanel hatching brood as “First Of Two” (well, that’s what I heard), Emily Deschanel only had a handful of on-screen roles in 2005 – refusing to pay Peter Parker for pizza time in Spider-Man 2 and looking very concerned in a bonnet in The Alamo, among others. She hit the jackpot when she landed her role as Temperance Brennan on Bones, a part that would see her working steadily for over a decade, racking up co-producer and producer credits along the way.

By the end of the series, she and co-star David Boreanaz were reportedly taking home a quarter of a million per episode, with an additional, undisclosed payday following arbitration of their 2015 lawsuit against Fox for unpaid profits from Bones. 

Today, Deschanel stays focused on lending her platform to activism, continuing to promote philanthropic organizations like Mercy Corps and encouraging fans to consider a vegan lifestyle. She and her husband, the Mythic Quest and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia multi-hyphenate David Hornsby, live in Los Angeles with their two sons, Henry and Calvin. Her most recent acting project is a scripted thriller podcast, Agent Stoker, co-starring Altered Carbon’s Chris Conner and Amy Hill, from basically everything.

David Boreanaz

David Boreanaz was an old hand at network dramas when he got the job playing Seeley Booth on Bones. Just off of 110 episodes of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff Angel and still washing the smell of a The Crow sequel where he was billed in between Edward Furlong and Tara Reid, he was no doubt ready for the next chapter of his career. It would be a stretch marked by fewer vampires and a counterintuitively high amount of Family Guy crossovers.

Boreanaz has been married to former model and occasional actress Jaime Bergman since 2001, weathering a handful of public scandals. Unlike his co-star, Boreanaz never seems to have pumped the brakes, career-wise. In 2017, the same year that Bones wrapped up, he took a lead role on the CBS series SEAL Team, a success story in its own right that made it seven seasons on two separate distribution platforms before the network decided to wrap things up. It’s unclear what Boreanaz’s next project will be, but it seems unlikely that we’ll have to wait too long to find out.