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- Macaulay Culkin: Then. Macauley Culkin is best-known, of course, for playing Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone series. But his acting career kicked off well before that.
- Macaulay Culkin: Now. Between roles in Party Monster (2003), Sex and Breakfast (2007), and Changeland (2019)—not to mention a five-year stint doing voice work on Robot Chicken—it's clear that Culkin tried hard to shake the child star persona after Home Alone.
- Mandy Moore: Then. Sure, Mandy Moore initially made her name as a pop star with hits like "Candy" and "I Wanna Be With You." But come 2001, she tried her hand at acting, starting with mean girl Lana Thomas in The Princess Diaries.
- Mandy Moore: Now. Flying under the radar—though working steadily—for the rest of the aughts, Moore swung into the pop culture zeitgeist as the long-haired Rapunzel from Disney's Tangled (2010) alongside Zachary Levi.
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- To start, here's Lindsay Lohan as Hallie Parker and Annie James from The Parent Trap in 1998: And here she is now, at age 36
- Here's Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister from Home Alone in 1990: And here he is now, at age 42
- Here's Zendaya as Rocky Blue from Shake It Up in 2012: And here she is now, at age 26
- Here's Keke Palmer as True Jackson from True Jackson, VP in 2008: And here she is now, at age 29
May 28, 2020 · From your favorite Disney Channel and Nickelodeon stars to child actors you completely forgot about, these celebs have come a long way since their years as popular kid stars.
- Madeline Boardman
- Soleil Moon Frye. After picking up early gigs in TV movies, Soleil Moon Frye became a bona fide star at the age of 7, when she nabbed the lead role on Punky Brewster.
- Sean Astin. In 1985, a young Sean Astin made his big-screen debut as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies. Then an unknown 14-year-old actor with just TV movie credits to his name, Astin led the film that would later become a cult classic.
- Melissa Gilbert. While she picked up early roles on The Dean Martin Show and Gunsmoke, Melissa Gilbert is best known for her 1974 debut as Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie.
- Corey Feldman. Corey Feldman started acting when he was a child, appearing in commercials and making TV guest appearances. He got his big break in 1979, however, when, at the age of 8, he played Regi Tower on The Bad News Bears TV series.
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas. JTT rose to fame playing brainy and adorable middle child Randy Taylor on Home Improvement starting in 1991. His big-screen roles that decade included voicing young Simba in The Lion King (though that's not him singing) and starring with Brad Renfro in 1995's Tom and Huck and Devon Sawa in 1997's Wild America.
- Jonathan Lipnicki. Few 6-year-olds have made splashier movie debuts than Lipnicki, who went toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise in the charm department in Jerry Maguire and got almost as many memorable lines.
- Mara Wilson. Wilson starred in Mrs. Doubtfire at 6 and Matilda at 9 before putting acting on the back burner. The writer and activist released her memoir Where Am I Now?
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Gordon-Levitt was a veteran actor by the time he starred as Tommy Solomon, a member of an alien fact-finding mission posing as an average human family, on 3rd Rock From the Sun.
Dec 1, 2020 · These stars captured hearts back when they were pint-sized. The '90s were a great decade to be a talented kid. Child actors were winning Academy Awards, pulling in huge box office takes, and becoming bona fide media moguls. But we all have to grow up sometime.
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May 2, 2018 · Take a look back into the good old days of TV with this slideshow, and see where some of entertainment’s most famous kids are now! 1. Jonathan Lipnicki. The adorable kid from the Tom Cruise...
