Today is the Harry Potter film's Hermione Granger, Emma Watson's 18th birthday (now she has access to the £10.5 million she's earned from the films). Happy Birthday Emma. What scares me (no not the films!) is that people born in the 1990's can legally buy alcohol in this country. It was also the last episode of the brilliant E4 drama Skins last night, one of the stars being About a Boy's Nicholas Hoult. This got me thinking about "child stars". These days there don't seem to be many boys who start off a promising career and go on to greater things, unless you count drug and booze hell "greater". Though Linsey Lohan is trying her worst to redress that balance.
Here's a list of some of the moppets who went on to forge a career long after they first appeared as fresh faced innocents and took on more adult roles:
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Emma Watson
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Turned 18 today. Still signed up for the future Potter films and also appeared on television in The Ballet Shoes.
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Nicholas Hoult
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The rather odd little boy in the adaptation of Nick Hornby's About A Boy alongside Hugh Grant. Went on to be the heart throb in the brilliant series Skins. Appeared in a few other film and TV roles, including Kidulthood.
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Natalie Portman
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Rose to fame as the prepubescent Mathilda in Leon (The Professional) and recently starred as Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (opposite another former child actress, Scarlett Johansson) via roles as a stripper and in the Star Wars prequels. A great actress in some stellar films, including Heat, Mars Attacks, Closer and V for Vendetta. Her stunning looks help.
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Drew Barrymore
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Went off the rails after her role in ET before sorting herself out and becoming a star in front and behind the camera. Hits include Charlie's Angels and Donnie Darko.
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Jodie Foster
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One of the most respected and talented actors of her generation, quirky roles as a youngster gave way to a shattering performance as a young prostitute in Taxi Driver, for which she won an Oscar nomination. She won Academy Awards for The Accused and Silence of the Lambs. A quality actress that doesn't toe the Hollywood glamorous line.
.Christian Bale
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Shot to fame brilliantly in Spielberg's The Empire of the Sun, is now the revamped Batman. A dark, brooding actor, prepared to take on some seriously dark roles (American Psycho for one).
.Leonardo DiCaprio
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Acted in a few TV shows including Rosanne and Parenthood before really making his mark with Robert De Niro in This Boy's Life and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and via the biggest film ever, Titanic went on to take over as Scorsese's "muse" from De Niro. One of the biggest actors in the world today.
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Christina Ricci
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Quirky actress that has been in loads of films but has never quite hit the heights of her early hits such as Mermaids or The Addams Family.
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Anna Paquin
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An amazing start with The Piano shes gone on to play, amonst other things, a trouble mutant in the X-Men films.
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Claire Danes
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After a number of big films, including How to Make an American Quilt and Romeo + Juliet,(opposite DiCaprio) and even Terminator 3 she truly became a "star" in last years wonderful Stardust.
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Kirsten Dunst
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A number of small roles in movies such as Bonfire of the Vanities and TV like Star Trek: The Next Generation she really came to notice as a hundred year old vampire stuck in a child's body in Interview with a Vampire. Parts in Little Women (with Danes and Bale), Jumanji, The Virgin Suicides, Bring It On, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and most notably the Spiderman movies, she has become one of the biggest stars of her generation.
This list is missing out stars of yesteryear such as Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor and Judy Garland too. Also Haley Joel Osment hasn't really done anything of note since his child roles in Forrest Gump, Sixth Sense, AI and Pay It Forward. I could have included the other Harry Potter stars, especially Daniel Radcliffe, who's done very well for himself. And maybe I should have mentioned Macaulay Culkin too!
Despite their loviliness when grown up, I have decided not adding the "babes" tag to this post as it seems inapproriate.
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