It's been 13 long years since we last caught up with the Scooby Gang (unless you count the comics).

Joss Whedon's iconic fantasy drama is still a cult favourite and holds up after all these years, making huge stars out of its core cast and creatives. But what have Buffy, Xander, Willow and co been up to since? Let's find out who benefitted the most from their time in Sunnydale.

20. Kristine Sutherland (Joyce)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

Kristine played Buffy's mother for the first five seasons before being killed off, but came back a couple of times for guest appearances. Since the show wrapped, she attended a photography course at the Santa Monica College and set up a studio specialising in portraits. She's stayed quiet in the acting world, appearing in a handful of smaller projects.

19. Amber Benson (Tara)

©   Getty Images

Amber may not have appeared in any particularly massive projects since being killed off in Buffy , but she has kept very busy as an actor, director and writer. Along with several comic projects, she directed the movies Chance (2002), Lovers, Liars and Lunatics (2006) and Drones (2010), the latter alongside Buffy co-star Adam Busch. Her last notable acting role was as a stripper in an episode of Sarah Michelle Gellar's Ringer in 2011. Last year, she said on Reddit that she was "an actress in a former life".

18. Adam Busch (Warren)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

After playing one third of the would-be evil trio The Troika, Adam pops up on TV every now and then, including Empire (working with his fellow nerd Danny Strong), Grey's Anatomy and House . He was also a main cast member of the shortlived TBS comedy Men at Work . He also appears in the webshow MyMusic on YouTube.

17. Nicholas Brendon (Xander)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

Nicholas has remained a regular on TV since hanging up Xander's jacket, most notably as Kevin Lynch in Criminal Minds on and off since 2007. He also played a child abuser in a challenging arc in Private Practice . He has been in and out of rehab over the past decade for alcoholism, while he has been arrested numerous times in relation to trashing hotel rooms and for attacking a woman in 2015. He most recently appeared on Dr Phil to talk about his demons in December of that year, where he accepted a further rehab stay.

16. Juliet Landau (Drusilla)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

Since playing Spike's destructive "partner", Juliet has gone on to have a varied and fascinating career. Nowadays she focuses mostly on voice work, appearing in the likes of Ben 10 and Justice League , and she also played the Little Sisters in the Bioshock video game. She is also a director, her work including a film about Gary Oldman's creative process. She has also co-written issues in the Angel comic series, and appeared in a couple of Doctor Who audio dramas from Big Finish.

15. Tom Lenk (Andrew)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

The second of the Troika, Tom has appeared in a number of one-off episodes in TV shows such as Six Feet Under, How I Met Your Mother and Bones (reuniting with David Boreanaz). He also popped up in Joss Whedon's Cabin in the Woods and Much Ado About Nothing . He has been a hit on Broadway, appearing in Grease and Rock of Ages , and he also hosts his own vlog from time to time.

14. Emma Caulfield (Anya)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

Still best known for playing Xander's on-off demon girlfriend Anya, Emma has since had a recurring role as the Blind Witch in Once Upon a Time , and most recently appeared in Supergirl . In the meantime, she produced and starred in the satire Bandwagon , featuring several cameos from her Buffy co-stars. She is also the co-author of the brilliantly-named webcomic Contropussy .

13. Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia)

©   Getty Images

Charisma continued her role as the popular-girl-turned-demon-hunter in spinoff Angel , and soon after landed a role as... a demon in Charmed . She also had a recurring role in Veronica Mars , as well as parts in Supernatural , Sons of Anarchy and Scream Queens among others. As well as several independent movies, she also featured in the first two Expendables movies.

12. Marc Blucas (Riley)

©   Getty Images

Ah, Riley, the ultimate Marmite character in the Buffyverse . After leaving the show in season five, Marc has appeared in a few movies including Meet Dave and Knight and Day , while he was a main cast member of the TV series Necessary Roughness and ABC's crime drama Killer Women . You may have also spotted him in episodes of House, Castle and Revenge among others.

11. Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn)

©   Getty Images

After joining the final few seasons as Buffy's younger sister Dawn, Michelle has gone on to have roles in several high-profile TV shows and movies, including Celeste in Six Feet Under, Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl, EuroTrip, Black Christmas, 17 Again, Cop Out and Killing Kennedy. She most recently featured in an episode of Sleepy Hollow and the TV movie The Christmas Gift .

10. James Marsters (Spike)

©   Getty Images

James played surely one of TV's coolest characters of all time in vampire Spike, and he wasn't even British. Since then, he has gone on to play several other sci-fi roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac in Smallville , the omnisexual time traveller Captain John Hart in Torchwood , and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica . He also had a supporting role in PS I Love You, and has appeared as a recurring character in Hawaii Five-0 .

9. Eliza Dushku (Faith)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

Eliza joined the show in season three as new slayer Faith, and proved so popular that she returned for several more episodes than originally planned, as well as in spinoff show Angel . She led the cast of supernatural series Tru Calling in 2003, and in Joss Whedon's shortlived Dollhouse in 2009. Since then, she has appeared in episodes of The Big Bang Theory and was even a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race . Most recently, she was among the cast of the Cinemax action show Banshee .

8. Alexis Denisof (Wesley)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

After appearing in a bunch of episodes of Buffy as Giles's fellow Watcher Wesley, Alexis became a main castmember of spinoff Angel . In 2003, he married co-star Alyson Hannigan and they have two daughters together (aww), and they joined forces when he became a guest star in her show How I Met Your Mother as obnoxious newsreader Sandy Rivers. He has since worked with Joss Whedon in The Avengers (and returned as 'The Other' in Guardians of the Galaxy ), and Dollhouse . Most recently, he has had a main role in the teen drama Finding Carter .

7. Anthony Head (Giles)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

Already known as the Nescafé Gold Blend man in the UK, stage actor Anthony had a huge career upgrade after joining the cast of Buffy as father figure Giles. Since then, he has also had memorable roles including Uther Pendragon in Merlin , the Prime Minister in Little Britain , and as Herc Shipwright in BBC Radio 4's Cabin Pressure . He also played Will's dad in The Inbetweeners Movie and had a main role in the underrated series Dominion . He's also had time to record a couple of albums and continues to appear in West End plays.

6. Seth Green (Oz)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

First coming to prominence as Willow's boyfriend Oz in Buffy , Seth is now probably best known as the creator and executive producer and voice actor on Adult Swim's comedy puppet show Robot Chicken , where he is also a writer and director. He has also appeared in the movies The Italian Job (the remake of course), Without a Paddle and the Austin Powers series as Dr Evil's son. Seth also voices Chris Griffin on Family Guy and Jeff Moreau in the Mass Effect video game series.

5. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy)

©   Getty Images

Sarah might always be best known for playing kickass Buffy (and that's no bad thing), but that doesn't mean she hasn't been busy since the show ended. She hasn't had the best luck with finding a new TV success – she led the cast of the criminally underrated Ringer in 2011 and The Crazy Ones opposite Robin Williams in 2013.

Whilst Buffy was on air she starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2 and Cruel Intentions , and will reprise her role from the latter in a TV version this year. She also led the cast of instalments of horror The Grudge and the Scooby-Doo series.

4. David Boreanaz (Angel)

©   Getty Images

Heartthrob David was so popular as Buffy's vampire lover that he got given his own spinoff, which lasted for five seasons from 1999 to 2004. A year after Angel ended, he landed the co-lead role of Seeley Booth in crime drama Bones , which outlasted his other series – it's currently on its 12th and final run.

3. Alyson Hannigan (Willow)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

Alyson may not have appeared in that many projects over the years compared to others, but boy she knows how to pick them. Whilst playing bookworm-turned-witch Willow, she starred in the American Pie film series as kinky band geek Michelle, returning in 2012's American Reunion . She had arguably an even bigger TV role as Lily Aldrin in How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014.

2. Danny Strong (Jonathan)

©   Getty Images 20th Century Fox

You may not have realised this, but Danny has come a long way since playing geek Jonathan in Buffy . He is now an award-winning screenwriter and producer, writing the screenplays for Recount , the HBO adaptation Game Change , Lee Daniels' The Butler , and the two-part finale of The Hunger Games film trilogy, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2 . He is also a co-creator, executive producer and writer for Empire .

Meanwhile, he continues to act from time to time, appearing in Gilmore Girls, Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, How I Met Your Mother and Grey's Anatomy . He has won two Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, a Producers Guild of America Award, and a NAACP Image Award. Well done that man.

1. Joss Whedon (creator)

We know we normally stick to the cast, but this guy is too much of a big deal to leave out, and it's all thanks to Buffy . He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and also created Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and Agents of SHIELD .

In film, he created and directed the Firefly film spinoff Serenity, co-wrote and directed the Internet mini-series Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, co-wrote and produced horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods, and wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films The Avengers and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron . He also brought together several of his Whedonverse folk for the 2012 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing .