Lifetime Movie Actors Who Are Unrecognizable Today

It's kind of hard not to know who Teri Polo is. Best known for her role as Stef Adams Foster on Freeform's The Fosters, she had a long career before the hit show. She was in the 2000 film Meet the Parents and its sequels, and she has a Lifetime movie under her belt. In 2006, years before The Fosters debuted, Polo appeared in Lifetime's Legacy of Fear. Polo played a detective in the film, just as she later would on The Fosters.

Polo has established herself as a versatile entertainer since her days as a Lifetime movie actor, and today she's still acting while also raising her own family — something that informed her role on The Fosters. The real-life mom told Parade that, in spite of how easy she makes it look on TV, parenting is hard. "I go up and down," she said, adding, "I think we all question [our parenting skills], no matter how big or small the difficulty might be with teenagers."

The Fosters wrapped in 2018, but Polo reprised her role on its spin-off, Good Trouble. Her other credits include Deadly Switch and JL Family Ranch 2.