Child actors

The good...

Nicole Kidman The Oscar-winning A-lister started acting as a member of Sydney’s Australian Theatre For Young People (of which she is now patron) and made her cinematic debut in BMX Bandits at the tender age of fifteen

Dakota Fanning She has only just turned fifteen but the startlingly bright and talented Fanning has appeared in more than 20 films and has won multiple awards for her acting

The not so good...

Corey Feldman Having starred in classic 80s flicks The Goonies, Stand By Me and The Lost Boys, this one-time teen heart throb fell off the Hollywood radar after‘divorcing’ his parents and battling drug addiction

Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen Aged six months, the twins scored their first acting gig playing‘Michelle Tanner’ in the American sitcom Full House. Eighteen years on, the Olsen twins control a million dollar empire despite drug scandals, eating disorders and a forgettable film career

…and the downright ugly

Macaulay Culkin As star of 90s blockbuster Home Alone, Culkin became the most recognisable boy in cinema. Subsequent film roles failed to keep him in the limelight, but a widely publicised friendship with Michael Jackson did. His sudden marriage to actress Rachel Milner when both were just 18 drew further media attention, as did their subsequent divorce, and ongoing speculation about Culkin’s sexuality and drug abuse problems

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