Actors with successful careers in childhood and adulthood (26 photos)

A selection of child actors who were able to build a successful career as an adult. Didn't find your favorite actor? Add it in the comments.





Not all actors who became famous at an early age manage to “defend” their film career by ceasing to be cute kids. Star sickness, early fatigue from filming, and lack of talent, which can manifest itself with age, can become a hindrance.

But we are definitely not talking about those who are on the list of actors and actresses who first became famous as children, and then as adult performers. We combined footage from their early works with the most famous or most recent projects in which they participated as seasoned actors.

Freddie Highmore (29 years old)



Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)/ The Good Doctor (2017-...).

Nicholas Hoult (31 years old)





My Boy (2002)/ Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

Daniel Radcliffe (32 years old)



Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)/ Escape from Pretoria (2020).

Dakota Fanning (27 years old)



War of the Worlds (2005)/ Please Get Ready (2017).

Elle Fanning (23 years old)



Phoebe in Wonderland (2009)/ TV series The Great (2020-...).

Christina Ricci (41 years old)



The Addams Family (1991)/ series Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015-2017).

Kirsten Dunst (39 years old)



Jumanji (1995)/ Fatal Temptation (2017).

Kurt Russell (70 years old)



Actor in the films It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), where 10-year-old Russell appeared in the same scene with Elvis Presley, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

Drew Barrymore (46 years old)



E.T. (1982)/ TV series "Santa Clarita Diet" (2017-2019).

Vladislav Galkin (1971-2010)



The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1981)/ mini-series “The Master and Margarita” (2005).

Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)



Jane Eyre (1943)/ Cleopatra (1963).

Reese Witherspoon (45 years old)



Man on the Moon" (1991)/ series "The Morning Show (2019-...).

Elijah Wood (40 years old)



Good Son" (1993)/ "Mindhunter. Brawl (2021).

Judy Garland (1922-1969)



The Wizard of Oz (1939)/ The Nuremberg Trials (1961).

Natalie Portman (40 years old)



Leon (1994)/ Voice of Lux (2018).

Christian Bale (47 years old)



Empire of the Sun (1987)/ Ford v Ferrari (2019).

Jodie Foster (58 years old)



Taxi Driver (1976)/ The Mauritanian (2021).

Ryan Reynolds (44 years old)



Ordinary Magic (1993)/ Main Character (2021).

Chloe Grace Moretz (24 years old)



500 Days of Summer (2009)/ Tom and Jerry (2021).

Emma Watson (31 years old)



Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)/ Little Women (2019).

Thomas Sangster (31 years old)



Love Actually (2003)/ TV series Queen's Move (2020).

Ethan Hawke (50 years old)



Explorers (1985)/ Tesla (2020).

Scarlett Johansson (36 years old)



North (1994)/ Jojo Rabbit (2019).

Jake Gyllenhaal (40 years old)



City Slickers (1991)/ Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).

Leonardo DiCaprio (46 years old)



Critters 3 (1991)/ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).