A lot of child stars shine bright, but only for a short period of time. A few of them get lucky though and remain in the spot light.
Angus T. Jones, Two and A Half Men
Angus T. Jones was best known for his role as Jake Harper in the sitcom Two And A Half Men. He was also in a kids movie See Spot Run, The Rookie, and a few other small roles. His acting career conflicted with his religious beliefs and he hasn't been in anything since Two And A Half Men
Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense
Haley Joel Osment's most notable roles were in The Sixth Sense and Artificial Intelligence. He has had many other smaller roles in both TV shows and movies. He is also well known for his voice over work in the Kingdom Hearts Games as the voice of Sora. Some of his more recent movie roles have been in the movie Sex Ed and Entourage. Entourage is in post-production and will be released soon.
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is a very well known actress. A lot of people don't know that she was a child star, but she has been acting since the age of 3.
Anna Chlumsky, My Girl
Best known for her role as Vada Sultenfuss in the movie My Girl, Anna Chlumsky has had a number of roles in movies and tv shows. Most recently in Hannibal.
Bug Hall, The Little Rascals
Bug Hall played Alfalfa in the 1994 movie The Little Rascals. That was his most notable role, although he has had a fair number of small roles in movies and shows since then. Most recently he played the ice cream man in The Little Rascals Save The Day.
Christian Bale, Newsies
Christian Bale is another one of those actors that people don't know was a child star. His first role was in 1986. His most notable role when he was young was as Jack Kelly in Newsies. He has had a very successful adult career playing such roles as Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Batman movies and many other roles.
Dustin Diamond, Saved By The Bell
Dustin Diamond is an actor, musician, director and stand up comedian, but he is best known as his childhood character "Screech" Samuel Powers on the show Saved By The Bell. His most recent work was in 2014 as the character Bernardo in the independent film Hamlet A.D.D.
Hilary Duff, Lizzie McGuire
Hilary Duff is an actress and a singer. She became a teen idol on the show Lizzie McGuire. Most of her recent work has been voice over work and singing. She recently released an album called Breathe In. Breathe Out.
Joey Lawrence, Blossom
Joseph Lawrence Mignogna Jr., professionally known as Joey Lawrence first appeared in a Cracker Jack commercial. He was a teen idol and one of his well known roles was on Blossom as the character Joey Russo. for the last 5 years he has been on the tv show Joey & Melissa.
Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone
Macaulay Culkin was one of my favorite actors growing up. He rose to fame in his role in Home Alone as Kevin McCallister. He was also Thomas J in My Girl, Richard Tyler in The Pagemaster, and Richard "Richie" Rich Jr. in Richie Rich. He hasn't gotten any very noteworthy roles since he was a kid, but he is in a band called The Pizza Underground.
Raven-Symone, That's So Raven
Raven-Symone Christina Pearman first appeared on television as Olivia Kendall on The Cosby Show. She was very well known for her role on That's So Raven. She has recently joined the cast of the soap opera Empire as Olivia.
Shia LaBeouf, Even Stevens
Shia LaBeouf is an actor and director. He started preforming at comedy clubs at the age of 10. He was well known in his younger years as Louis Stevens in Even Stevens. He has had a successful acting career as an adult. He is said to found God while filming the movie Fury. If you haven't seen the music video called Shia LaBeouf by Rob Cantor you should look it up. It is pretty funny.
Scarlett Johansson, The Horse Whisperer.
Scarlett Johansson made her film debute in the movie North. She has found very consistant roles in films and a few tv shows since. She has been fairly well known for a long time, but became very well known when she was hacked and had naked pictures leaked to the internet. She is currently filming The Avengers: Civil War.
Zac Efron, High School Musical
Zac Efron became a teen idol with his role in High School Musical. He hasn't had any trouble transitioning from his roles when he was younger to adult roles. One of his most recent movies was as Teddy Sanders in Neighbors. He is currently working on a movie called Dirty Grandpa.
David Gallagher, Seventh Heaven
David Gallagher started acting at the age of two. He is best known for his role as Simon Camden on the show 7th Heaven. He is also well known for his voice character Riku on Kingdom Hearts. Most recently he played Lyle Soames in the movie In Your Eyes.
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