sâmbătă, 1 iunie 2013

Famous American child actors

American Child Actors

Note: This list is made of actors who started acting before the age 18.
Although I've done a lot of research on several sites, for some actors I couldn't find the real age of their acting debut, so I preferred to put the sign '?'. In the next period of time I will adjust and add more names.

A
Abigail Breslin / Signs 2002 / age: 5
Alex D. Linz / Cybill 1995 / age: 6?
Alexandra Powers / The prodigal 1983 / age: 16?
Alison Eastwood / Bronco Billy 1980 / age: 8?
Allison Joy (A.J.) Langer / Série noire 1987 / age: 13?
Alyssa Milano / Who's the boss? 1984-1992 (sitcom) / age: 12?
Amanda Bynes / Big fat liar 2002 / age: 16?
Angelina Jolie / Lookin' to get out 1982 / age: 7?
Angus T. Jones / Simpatico 1999 / age: 6?
Anissa Jones / Family Affair 1966-1971 / age: 8
Anjelica Huston / Casino Royale / age: 16?
Anna Chlumsky / Uncle Buck 1989 / age: 9?
Anna Paquin / The piano 1993 / age: 11
Annabeth Gish / Dessert bloom 1986 / age: 15?
AnnaSophia Robb / Drake & Josh (TV series) 2004 / age: 11?
Anthony Michael Hall / Jennifer's journey 1979 / age: 11?
Ariana Richards / Into the homeland 1987 / age: 8?
Ashley Johnson / Growing pains … / age: 6?
Ashley Michelle Tisdale / Smart guy 1997 (TV series) / age: 12?

B
Baby Marie Osborne / Kidnapped in New York 1914 (short) / age: 3?
Baby Peggy (Diana Seta Carey) / Playmates 1921 (short) / age: 3?
Bailee Madison / Lonely hearts 2006 / age: 7?
Barry Williams / Dragnet 1967 (TV series) / age: 13?
Beau Bridges / Force of evil 1948 / age: 7?
Ben Affleck / The dark end of the street 1991/ age: 9?
Ben Savage / Little monsters 1989 / age: 8
Bethany Richards / Prancer 1989 / age: 6?
Billy Mumy / Romper room / 1958 / age: 4?
Bindi Irwin / Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove 2010 / age: 12
Brad Renfro / The client 1994 / age: 11?
Bradley Pierce / … 1990 / age: 8?
Brandon Cruz / The courtship of Eddie's father 1969-1972 / age: 7?
Brian Austin Green / Baby M 1988 / age: 15?
Brian Bonsall / Family ties 1986-1989 (TV series) / age: 5
Brian Keith / Pied piper Malone or The other kind of love 1924 / age: 3?
Brooke Shields / After the fall 1974 / age: 9
Bryton James / Family matters 1990-1997 (TV series) / age: 3

C
Cameron John 'CJ' Adams / Dan in real life / age: 7?
Camryn Grimes / JAG (TV series) 1997 / age: 7?
Candace Cameron-Bure / ST. Elsewhere 1982-1984 (TV series) / age: 6?
Casey Affleck / Lemon Sky 1988 / age: 13?
Chad Lowe / Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac 1984 (TV movie) / age: 16?
Charlie Sheen / Badlands 1973 / age: 8?
Chloë Grace Moretz / Head of the beholder or The Amityville horror 2005 / age: 7
Chris Penn / Charlie and the Talking Buzzard 1979 / age: 14?
Christina Ricci / Mermaids 1990 / age: 9
Christine Lakin / The Rose and the Jackal 1990 / age: 11?
Christopher Knight / Mannix 1967 (TV series) / age: 10?
Claire Danes / Dreams of love 1990 / age: 11?
Corey Feldman / Time after time / age: 8?
Corey Haim / Firstborn 1984 / age: 13?
Cynthia Nixon / Little darlings 1980 / age: 14?

D
Dakota Fanning / ER (TV series) 2000 / age: 6
Dana Plato / The six million dollar man 1975 (TV series) / age: 11?
Danica McKellar / The Twilight Zone (TV series) 1985-1987 / age: 10?
Danny Bonaduce / Accidental family 1967 (sitcom) / age: 8?
Danny Llyod / The Shining 1980 / age: 7?
David Bennent / Die Eltern (TV movie) 1974 / age: 8? Switzerland
David Faustino / Lilly Tomlin Special 1974 / at the age of three months  
Debbie Reynolds / June bride 1948 / age: 16?
Demi Lovato / Barney & friends 2002-2004 (TV series) / age: 10?
Denise Nickerson / Flipper (TV series) 1965 / age: 8?
Devon Gummersall / Step by step (TV series) 1992 / age: 14?
Devon Odessa / Rocky road 1985 (TV series) / age: 11?
Diane Lane / A little romance 1979 / age: 14?
Dickie Moore / The beloved rogue 1927 / age: 18 months
Douglas Fairbank, Jr. / American aristocracy 1916 / age: 7?
Drew Barrymore / Suddenly, love 1978 / age: 3

E
Elijah Wood / Back to future, part II 1989 / age: 7
Elizabeth Berkley / Gimme a break! 1986 / age: 14?
Elizabeth Taylor / There're one born every minute 1942 / age: 9 / UK-American actress
Ellen Page / Pit Pony 1997 / age: 10
Emmanuel Lewis / Webster 1983-1989 (TV series) / age: 12?
Erin and Diane Murphy / Bewitched 1966-1972 (TV series) / age: 2?
Ethan Hawke / Explorers 1985 / age: 14

F
Fred Savage / The boy who could fly 1986 / age: 10?
Freddie Bartholomew / Toyland 1930 (short) / age: 6 / UK-American actor

G
Gaby Hoffman / Uncle Buck 1989 / age: 7?
Gary Coleman / The kid from left field 1979 / age: 11?
Geraldine Chaplin / Limelight 1952 / age: 8
Giovanni Ribisi 1974 / The Twilight Zone (TV series) 1985 / age: 11

H
Haley Joel Osment / Forrest Gump / age: 6?
Hallie Kate Eisenberg / Paulie 1998 / age: 6
Hayden Panettiere / One life to love 1994-1997 (TV series) / age: 4 ½ years
Heather O'Rourke / Fantasy Island 1981 (TV series) / age: 6?
Henry Thomas / Raggedy man 1981 / age: 10?
Hilary Swank / ABC TGIF (TV series) 1990 / age: 16?
Hillary Duff / True woman (TV mini-series) 1997 / age: 10?

I
Isabelle Fuhrman / Justice (TV series) 2006 / age: 9?

J
Jackie Coogan / Skinner's baby 1917 / age: 3
Jake Gyllenhaal / City slickers 1991 / age: 11?
Jake Lloyd / ER 1996 (TV series) / age: 7?
Jaleel White / The Jeffersons (sitcom) 1984 / age: 8?
James Van Der Beek / Clarissa explains it all 1993 / age: 16?
Jamie Bell / Billy Elliot 2000 / age: 14
Jane Powell / song of the open road 1944 / age: 14?
Jason Bateman / Little house on the prairie 1981-1982 (TV series) / age: 12?
Jason Priesley / Nobody's child (TV movie) 1981 / age: 17?
Jason Strickland / Dear John (TV series) 1990 / age: 13?
Jay North / Wanted: Dead or alive 1958 / age: 7?
Jeff Bridges / The company she keeps / age: 1?
Jennie Garth / Growing pains 1989 / age: 17?
Jennifer Connelly / Once upon a time in America 1984 / age: 14?
Jennifer Lopez / My little girl 1986 / age: 17?
Jennifer Stone / Secondhand lions 2003 / age: 10?
Jenny Lewis / Suburban beat 1985 (TV movie) / age: 9?
Jeremy Sumpter / Frailty2001 / age: 12?
Jerry O'Connell / Stand by me 1986 / age: 12?
Jesse McCartney / All my children 1998-2001 (TV series) / age: 11?
Joaquin Phoenix / Seven brides for seven brothers 1982 (musical TV series) / age: 8?
Jodie Foster / Mayberry, R.F.D. (TV series) 1968 / age: 6? 7
Jodie Sweetin / Jim Henson presents Mother Goose Stories 1987 /age: 5?
Joey Lawrence / Scamps (short film) 1982 / age: 6?
John Cusack / Class 1983 / age: 17?
Jonathan Brandis / One life to live (TV series) 1982 / age: 6?
Jonathan Lipnicki / Jerry Maguire 1996 / age: 6
Jonathan Taylor Thomas / The adventures of Spot 1987 (TV series) / age: 6? 
Joseph Gordon-Levitt / Stanger on my land 1988 / age: 7
Josh Brolin / The Goonies 1985 / age: 17?
Josh Ryan Evans / Baby Geniuses 1999 / age: 16?
Joshua Jackson / Crooked hearts 1991 / age: 13?
Judy Garland / Every Sunday 1936 / age: 14?
Juliette Lewis / Home fires (TV movie) 1987 / age: 14?

K
Keisha Knight-Pulliam / The last dragon 1985 / age: 6?
Kiefer Sutherland / Max Dugan returns / age: 17?
Kieran Culkin / Home alone 1990 / age: 8?
Kim Richards / Nanny and the professor 1970-1971 (TV series) / age: 6?
Kimberly McCullough / Breakin'2: Electric Boogaloo 1984 / age: 6?
Kirk Cameron / Goliath awaits 1981 / age: 11?
Kirsten Dunst / Oedipus Wrecks (anthology: New York stories) / age: 6
Kristen Stewart / The thirteenth year 1999 / age: 9? 10? 8
Kurt Russell / It happened at the world's fair 1963 / age: 11

L
Lacey Chabert / A little piece of heaven 1991 (film TV) / age: 9?
Lark Voorhies / Good morning, Miss Bliss/ age: 14?
Laurence Fishburne / If you give a dance, you gotta pay the band / age: 11?  
Leonardo di Caprio / Critters 3 / age: 17?
Liesel Matthews / A little princess 1995 / age: 11?
Linda Blair / The way we live now 1970 / age: 11?
Lindsay Lohan / Another world 1996-1997 (soap-opera) / age: 9
Lisa Gerritsen / The Doris Day Show 1968, 1971 (TV series) / age: 11?
Lisa Whelchel / The New Mickey Mouse Club 1977 / age: 14?
Lisa Wilhoit / Hook 1991 / age: 10
Loretta Young / The primrose ring 1917 / age: 3

M
Macaulay Culkin / Rocket Gibraltar / age: 8?
Mae Whitman / When a man love a woman 1994 / age: 6
Maia Campbell / Poetic justice 1993 / age: 17?
Mara Wilson / Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 / age: 5
Mariel Hemingway / Lipstick 1976 / age: 15?
Mario López / Chartbusters 1986 / age: 13?
Mark-Paul Gosselaar / Highway to heaven 1986 / age: 12?
Mary Kornman / One terrible day 1922 / age: 7?
Mary Stuart Masterson / The Stepford wives 1975 / age: 8
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen / Full House 1987-1995 (sitcom) – as twins / age: 6? 9 months
Matt Dillon / Over the edge 1979 / age: 15?
Maureen McCormick / The farmer's daughter 1965 (TV series) / age: 9?
Max Records / The brother Bloom 2008 / age: 11?
Mayim Bialik / Beauty and the Beast (TV series) 1987 / age: 12?
Megan Fox / Holiday in the sun 2001 / age: 16?
Melissa Gilbert / The reluctant astronaut 1967 / age: 3?
Melissa Joan Hart / ABC Weekend Specials (TV series) / age: 9?
Melissa Sue Anderson / Bewitched 1972 / age: 10? Canadian-American actress
Michael J. Fox / The beachcombers 1973 (TV series) / age: 12?
Mickey Rooney / Orchids and Ermine 1927 / age: 7? 6
Mila Kunis / Baywatch 1994, 1995 (TV series) / age: 9
Miley Cyrus / Doc 2001 / age: 9?
Milla Jovovich / The night train to Kathmandu 1988 (TV movie) / age: 13?
Milton Berle / The perils of Pauline 1914 / age: 6
Molly Ringwald / Diff'rent strokes 1979-1980 / age: 11?

N
Natalie Portman / Léon: The professional 1994 / age: 12
Natalie Wood / Happy Land 1943 / age: 4
Nate Richert / Sabrina, the teenage witch 1996-2003 (TV series) / age: 7
Neil Patrick Harris / Clara's heart 1988 / age: 15?
Nia Long / The B.R.A.T. Patrol – Walt Disney's Wonderful world of color (TV series - episode 1986) / age: 16?
Noah Hathaway / Battlestar Galactica / age: 6

P
Patsy Kensit / For the love of Ada 1972 / age: 4?
Patty Duke / Country music holiday 1958 / age: 12?
Patty McCormak / Two gals and a guy 1951 / age: 6?
Paul Walker / Highway to heaven 1985-1986 (TV series) / age: 12?
Paula Abdul / Junior High School 1978 (short) / age: 16?

R
Raven Symone / The Cosby show 1989-1992 (TV series) / age: 4?
Reese Witherspoon / The man in the moon 1991 / age: 15
Ricky Schroder / The champ 1979 / age: 9
Rider Strong / ABC TGIF (TV series) 1990 / age: 11?
Rita Wilson / Spinout 1966 / age: 10?
River Phoenix / Explorers 1985 / age: 15?
Rob Lowe / A new kind of family 1979 / age: 15?
Robert Downey, Jr. / Pound 1970 / age: 5
Robert Oliveri / ABC Afterschool Special 1987 / age: 9
Robin Wright / The yellow rose 1983-1984 / age: 17?
Ron Howard / Frontier woman 1956 / age: 18 months
Rory Culkin / Richie Rich/ age: 5?
Ryan Gosling / Are you afraid of the dark? 1995 / age: 15?

S
Saoirse Ronan / The clinic 2003-2004 / age: 9? / Ireland
Sara Gilbert / Calamity Jane 1984 / age: 9?
Sarah Jessica Parker / The little Match girl 1974 / age: 9?
Sarah Michelle Gellar / An invasion of privacy 1983 / age: 6?
Scarlett Johansson / North 1994 / age: 9
Scott Baio / Bugsy Malone 1976 / age: 16
Scott Weinger / Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach 1988 / age: 13?
Sean Austin / Please don't hit me, mom 1981 / age: 10?
Sean Penn / Little house on the prairie 1974 (TV series) / age: 14?
Selena Gomez / Barney & friends 2002-2004 (TV series) / age: 10? 7?
Seth Green / Billions for Boris 1984 / age: 10
Shannen Doherty / Father Murphy 1981 (TV series) / age: 10?
Shia LaBeouf / Monkey business? 1998 / age: 12?
Shiloh Strong / Spies (TV movie) 1992 / age: 14?
Shirley Temple / Kid's last stand sau War babies 1932 / age: 4? 3
Soleil Moon Frye / Missing children: A mother's story 1982 (TV movie) / age: 6?
Stacy Ann Ferguson (Fergie) / Monster in the closet 1986 / age: 11?

T
Tatum O'Neal / Paper moon 1973 / age: 10
Taylor Lautner / Shadow fury 2001 / age: 9?
Thomas Brodie-Sangter / Station Jim 2001 (TV movie) / age: 11
Tiffani Amber Thiessen / Saved by the bell / age: 15?
Tobey Maguire / Rodney Dangerfield: Opening Night at Rodney's Place1989 / age: 14?
Todd Bridges / Katherine 1975 / age: 10?
Tori Spelling / Vega$ 1981 / age: 8?
Uma Thurman / Kiss daddy goodnight 1987 / age: 17?

V
Vanessa Anne Hudgens / Still standing 2002 (TV series) / age: 4

W
Wil Wheaton / Meat Puppet 1980 / age: 8?
Winona Ryder / Lucas 1986 / age: 15?

Z
Zac Efron / Firefly 2002 (TV series) / age: 15?