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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had numerous examples:
** 23-year old Carol Ann Ford as 15-year old Susan Foreman (though she is a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Time Lord]]).
** 21-year old Maureen O'Brien as 15-16-year old Vicki. <ref> Her exact age isn't given, but in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3
** 25-year old Jackie Lane as 18-year old Dodo Chaplet.
** 21-year old Wendy Padbury as 15-year old Zoe Heriot (just to add to the confusion, according to [[The Brigadier]] she looks "about 19").
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** His music had already established that trend, with story songs placing him in the role of a young teen in high school even though he was in his late teens and early twenties at the time.
* Chiara Zanni, who plays the main character "Amy" on [[Teen Nick|The N]] show ''[[About A Girl]],'' was 29 years old during filming, yet she plays a supposedly "young college student."
* Gary Burghoff of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' fame. He was already 27 when playing the teenaged Radar, and continued the role well into his 40s. Burghoff, however, had such a childish frame and voice, that little besides his thinning hairline betrayed his true age. The producers tried hard to get him to keep his hat on in later episodes.
** There was a heavy dose of [[Dawson Casting]] for most of the cast, especially in the later seasons. The book establishes Hawkeye as 28 years old, but TV-Hawkeye was played by Alan Alda, born in 1936 -- 36 when the series started (which would have made Hawkeye of draft age during WWII), 47 by the time it ended.
*** This, combined with the fact that the show lasted almost four times as long as the war it portrayed, gave rise to some excellent accidental [[Fridge Brilliance]]: along with other signs of aging, Hawkeye's hair went from jet black to pure grey over the course of the show -- reflecting the effects of the stress and horror of war. A healthy, 28-year old actor wouldn't visibly age much in three years, but a stressed, overworked, mentally frayed, constantly terrified 28-year old frontlines army surgeon would take about three years to age as much as a healthy, 36-year old actor would in eleven years.
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** When the instructor catches one of them playing with an ocarina, he punishes him by making him play on the rugby team later, which is made up of actual children again!
* Mia Sara was perhaps the only ''actual'' teenager in ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]''. Her character Sloane was a junior in high school; she was 18 at the time.
* ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'' features a thirteen-year-old [[Natalie Portman]] playing twelve-year-old Mathilda. Which makes her love towards Leon as poignant as it's odd.
* In ''[[To Have And Have Not]]'', Lauren Bacall was 19 and playing a 22-year-old.
* [[Evan Rachel Wood]] was fourteen when she was cast in ''Thirteen'', the title referring to her character's age (Wood turned fifteen during filming). Considering the sex-and-drugs subject matter of the movie, probably no one would have blamed them if they had cast a baby-faced adult, so it's a notable near-[[Averted Trope|aversion]].
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