Famous Child Stars: Where They’ve Been and Where They Are
Ever wondered what had happened to your favorite child stars? Are they still thriving in the business or have taken the lay-low lifestyle? Let’s take a trip down memory lane as we show you 10 of the top famous child stars now all grown up!
1. Abigail Breslin
Abigail Breslin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Little Miss Sunshine” in 2006. Now 18 years of age, she most recently starred in “August: Osage County” (2013); “The Call” (2013); and “Ender’s Game” (2013).
2. Angus T. Jones
Angus T. Jones is best known for playing Jake Harper in the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men”, for which he had won two Young Artist and a TV Land Award during his 10-year tenure as one of the show’s main characters.
3. Bug Hall
Bug Hall played Alfalfa, in the 1994 film, “The Little Rascals.” Since then, Hall acted in the movie, “The Stupids,” voiced a little boy in Disney’s “Hercules” and has had a string of roles on different TV shows today.
4. Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci as a child, acted in many notable movies. One of her famous roles was that of Wednesday Addams in the 1993 movie “Addams Family Values”. She still works as an actress till now and has been part of a number of movies to date.
5. Cole & Dylan Sprouse
We met these cute teens in 1999’s “Big Daddy”. The twins alternated playing the role of Julian “Frankenstien” McGrath. The duo went on to have their own series called “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” and later “The Suite Life on Deck”. Since the show’s end in 2011, the boys have had uncredited roles.
6. Fred Savage
Fred Savage starred as Kevin Arnold in “The Wonder Years” from 1988-1993. Although he hasn’t stopped acting, his role as a director seems to be a focus as of late. He directed the 2007 film “Daddy Day Camp” starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and several episodes of the CBS sitcom “2 Broke Girls.”
7. Freddie Highmore
Highmore starred alongside Johnny Depp in the film “Finding Neverland” in way back 2004. Currently, he has been working on films and has starred as Norman Bates in A&E’s “Bates Motel”.
8. Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment rose to fame as a child for his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller film “The Sixth Sense”, which earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and Mimi Leder’s “Pay It Forward”. In 2013, Osment, 26, appeared in a series of episodes of Amazon’s “Alpha House”. He also co-starred in the Will Ferrell and Adam McKay-produced comedy, melodrama miniseries “The Spoils of Babylon”.
9. Jonathan Lipnicki
Jonathan Lipnicki made his movie debut in 1996’s “Jerry Maguire” as the son of Rene Zellweger’s character. In 1999, he starred in the film “Stuart Little”, playing a boy whose family adopts a talking mouse, a role he reprised in the film’s 2002 sequel. Lipnicki, now 23, has become known among pre-teen audiences, although he has not appeared in a widely released film since, focusing mostly on independent films.
10. Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin has starred in a lot of our favorite movies, one of them in the 1990’s “Home Alone”. Although not currently actively acting nowadays, Culkin is still considered one of the wealthiest former child stars to date.
11. Mara Wilson
Wilson played the loving “Matilda” back in 1996, and now spends her time acting in Web series and writing blogs.
12. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
The actor starred in “Love Actually” and was a mainstream actor in Britain. He has found success in the U.S., with the role as Jorjen Reed in Season 3 of “Game of Thrones.” His most recent role would be as Newt in the “Maze Runner” trilogy. Source
