''Blair Witch'' stars

In 1997, three young actors disappeared into the woods near Burkittsville, Md., to shoot a low-budget horror film. Three years later, where can they be found?

JOSHUA LEONARD
AGE: 25
HEIGHT: 5′ 10”
HAIR: Blond
EYES: Blue
LAST SEEN
Plunging back into indiedom with In the Weeds and Sacrifice
NEXT SEEN
Plunging into the ocean alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro in Fox’s upcoming diver drama Men of Honor; appearing in the indies Mission and Allison Anders’ Things Behind the Sun; playing a ’50s-era gang member in Deuces Wild (with Balthazar Getty and Fairuza Balk) and a Midwestern naif mistaken for a New York artiste in Larceny (with Andy Dick). And you thought witches made scary costars…

HEATHER DONAHUE
AGE: 26
HEIGHT: 5′ 6”
HAIR: Blond
EYES: Hazel
LAST SEEN
Burning up the screen as a socially awkward engineering student romancing Freddie Prinze Jr. in Miramax’s teen comedy Boys and Girls
NEXT SEEN
Burning down a house as a socially agile magazine fashion editor named Whit in the unsold indie drama Seven and a Match, about friends who contemplate torching a summer home for the insurance money. Since another character is named Blair, the producers have dubbed this ”The Blair-Whit Project.” Clever.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS
AGE: 27
HEIGHT: 5′ 10”
HAIR: Blond
EYES: Blue
LAST SEEN
Coming to grips with married life as a young husband forced to testify against his criminally negligent wife on an episode of Law & Order and doing The Taming of the Shrew in repertory in upstate New York
NEXT SEEN
Coming to grips with married life (he wed his high school sweetheart last year). He has spent the last two years writing a play, which Williams says he’s almost ready to debut in a reading. But he won’t say boo about the subject or title.