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Compare [[Age Lift]], [[Age Inappropriate Dress]], [[Hollywood Old]] and [[Playing Hamlet]]. Contrast [[Playing Gertrude]]. See also [[Artistic Age]] for an intentional drawn equivalent. [[Cross Dressing Voices]] is more-or-less the [[Animation Tropes|animated version]] of this trope, as partially explained above.
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== Fan Fiction ==
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** Leslie Howard, at 43, played Romeo in a 1936 version and Juliet was played by 34-year old Norma Shearer). Even more geriatric was John Barrymore, Sr. as Mercutio, who was ''fifty-four'' at the time.
** At the time of filming of the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were 15 and 17 respectively. This was considered a radical innovation at the time, and much of the film's success was due the stars' very believable youthful passion. Ironically Olivia Hussey wasn't allowed to attend the debut of the film because the film had nudity and she was too young. It was ''her own'' nudity that she was prevented from seeing.
** In the 1996 movie, ''[[William ShakespearesShakespeare's Romeo and +Juliet (Film)|William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet]]'', Claire Danes (playing the 13-year old Juliet) was actually sixteen. They almost averted this trope, as [[Natalie Portman]] (aged 14) had been initially cast in the role. However, during rehearsals [[The Coconut Effect|it was thought that she looked]] ''[[The Coconut Effect|too]]'' [[The Coconut Effect|young]], and the part was recast.
* Some of the stars of ''[[High School Musical (Film)|High School Musical]]'' are in their twenties. Most were at a reasonable age at the start, but the time of the films [[Comic Book Time|moves differently then real time.]] Monique Coleman obviously fits at age 26, though she doesn't look it.
* In the 1974 Werner Herzog film ''Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle'' (also known as ''The enigma of Kaspar Hauser''), the lead role of about-16-year old Kaspar Hauser was played by 41-year old street musician Bruno S. Herzog has commented that he was chosen for the role because his life had parallels with that of the historical Kaspar Hauser, and also because he gave the impression of being outsider to society at large, one that was a stranger to his own body.
* ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]]:'' Moaning Myrtle (a ghost who died in her teens) was played by then-''37-year old'' [[Shirley Henderson]] in ''Chamber of Secrets'' (her being a ghost, her appearance thusly being quite worked-over already and somewhat obscured by the opticals involved, probably helped hide the fact).
** A convoluted example involves Tom Riddle, who [[Timeshifted Actor|appears as a 16-year old]] in two films made seven years apart. In ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Chamber of Secrets]]'', 23-year old Christian Coulson played Riddle. By the time ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]]'' rolled around, Coulson was pushing 30 and [[The Other Darrin|the part was recast]] with actual 16-year old Frank Dillane.
** ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows Part 2]]'' features an inversion, where {{spoiler|the [[Distant Finale]] has everyone being played by the same actors as before, only with special-effects applied to try and make them ''look'' like they're in their late thirties despite only being in their early 20s.}}
* [[Michael J Fox]] played the teen-aged Marty McFly of the ''[[Back to The Future (Film)|Back to The Future]]'' films into his late twenties, having done the first film when he was twenty-three. The actors playing Marty's parents and Biff, appearing as teenagers in the 1955 scenes, had similar ages.
* Parodied in ''[[Scary Movie (Film)|Scary Movie]]''. In a "If this were a movie" conversation, one character says "We'd be played by actors in their late 20s/early 30s". The characters then pause for a moment, letting the phrase sink in.
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* ''[[Willow (Film)|Willow]]'' inverts the trope by featuring then-17-year old [[Warwick Davis]] as a father of two who must be in his 30s at least.
* Richard Wilson was 21 when he played Mikey in ''[[The Proposition]]'', who is implied to be about 14.
* [[Matthew Broderick]] gets mentioned further down in Theater, but ''[[Ferris BuellersBueller's Day Off (Film)|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' merits notation. Matthew Broderick was 24 at the time, Jennifer Grey (Ferris' younger sister) was 26, but Alan Ruck (Cameron) topped them both by turning ''thirty'' a few weeks after the film was released.
* ''[[Teenagers From Outer Space (Film)|Teenagers From Outer Space]]''
* Another really bad example comes from the rather poor film adaptation of the novel ''[[Flowers in The Attic]]'' by [[VC Andrews]], in which actors that look like adults are cast as characters who, in the book, were 14 and 12. This even [[Plot Hole|breaks the plot]]; the male lead is large enough to simply physically overpower his abusive grandmother while the rest of his siblings simply walk out the front door of the mostly empty mansion.
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* ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt (Film)|The People vs. Larry Flynt]]'' - [[Courtney Love (Music)|Courtney Love]] portrays Althea. Althea is 17 years old at the beginning, and Larry just can't believe that she's a day over 18. Courtney Love was 31 and looks it.
* ''Nowhere (1996)'' by Gregg Araki - [[Mena Suvari]] and Joshua Gibran Mayweather were both teens, but the rest were between 20 and 40 years old.
* ''[[Friday the 13 th13th (Film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' - You'll be hard-pressed to find a real teen in any installment of this teen slasher series.
* ''[[Mirror Mask]]'' - 15-year old Helena Campbell is played by 20-year old [[Stephanie Leonidas (Music)|Stephanie Leonidas]].
* In ''[[Girl, Interrupted (Film)|Girl Interrupted]]'' 28-year old [[Winona Ryder]] played the titular 19-year old. Critics at the time mentioned that whilst Ryder did look younger than her age this was still pushing it more than a bit.
* A particularly ironic example is ''[[Logan's Run (Film)|Logan's Run]]'' in which the film's hook is that it's about a society where people are killed once they reach 30. Predictably, much of the cast were well into their thirties and looked it as well.
* [[Selma Blair]] was subject to this a lot.
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* ''Dean Koontz's Phantoms'' - 25-year old [[Rose McGowan]] plays a character that was 14 in the book.
* ''[[Jawbreaker (Film)|Jawbreaker]]'' - Some high school girls accidentally kill another high school girl during a high school prank. Starring 24-year old Judy Greer, 26-year old [[Rose McGowan]], 27-year old Julie Benz, 28-year old Rebecca Gayheart.
* The ''[[CharliesCharlie's Angels (TV)|Charlies Angels]]'' movie features a flashback montage at the beginning with Charlie's voiceover, "Once upon a time there were three very different little girls..." They then show three adults dressed as girls up to high school age. In the sequel, three years later, they do it again with 28-year old [[Drew Barrymore]], 31-year old [[Cameron Diaz]], and 35-year old [[Lucy Liu]]. Apparently, this is humorous.
* ''Drive Me Crazy:'' 23-year old [[Melissa Joan Hart]] stars as a teenager with prom problems. Co-starring 23-year old Adrian Grenier as her high school sweet heart.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' 23-year old Kristy Swanson as Buffy, and 27-year old Luke Perry as her high school boyfriend.
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* ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]]'' has hilariously age inappropriate actors including Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd playing high school aged camp counselors. I believe it was intentional.
* The casting of ''[[Moonstruck]]'' is all over the place in terms of age. Cher was a 42-year old playing a 37-year old (not a stretch). Danny Aiello was 54, playing a 42-year old. [[Nicolas Cage]] was just 23, and although the age of his character is never mentioned outright in the film, the plot (involving his romance with Cher's character) just wouldn't make much sense unless we assume he's significantly older, at least mid-30ish.
* Played with quite a bit in the movie of ''[[Twenty One21 Jump Street (Film)|Twenty One Jump Street]]'':
** Justified: As with the series, the main characters are adults passing off as teenagers to investigate youth crimes. Jonah Hill somewhat looks the part, even at 27; but Channing Tatum is over thirty and looks like it.
** Not quite as Hill and Tatum are still at least a few years older then the real age of the characters they are playing which is 24 or 25. Hill not as bad at about 27 at the time of filming but Tautum over 30
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*** Even then {{spoiler|Kendall's 'real' is still about seven years younger than Charisma's and presumably she was supposed to at least ''look'' 25, in-universe if nothing else.}}
** Kind of [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the mini-episode shot to promote a possible season 4. Veronica is supposed to be in her mid-twenties, having graduated both college and the FBI academy, yet as one of the younger new recruits, she gets picked to go undercover as a teenager.
* ''[[I CarlyICarly (TV)|I Carly]]'': The actor who played Gibby inverts the trope, being 3 years younger than the character when introduced. The filming schedule stretch has actually brought both the character and the actor to almost the same age, and the actor is going through the same growth spurt that Freddie went through in between Season 1 and Season 2.
** Griffin, Carly's love interest in "iDate A Bad Boy", was played by a 23 year old and looked like it, especially in some shirtless scenes, is supposed to be a high school senior. The episode involved some heavy make out sessions with the star of the show [[Miranda Cosgrove (Music)|Miranda Cosgrove]], who was 15 when they filmed them. Miranda apparently got to choose which guy they casted.
* On ''[[Big Time Rush (TV)|Big Time Rush]]'', Carlos Pena (21), Logan Henderson (21), James Maslow (20) and Kendall Schmidt (20) play 16 year olds. It sort of works out, though, because of their rather boyish yet still mature good looks and their mid-pitched voices. Kendall and Carlos could pass as a bit older, though.
* This trope is subverted in ''[[Twenty One21 Jump Street (TV)|Twenty One Jump Street]]'', where the main characters are clearly identified as adults, but they are assigned to this undercover unit because they all look young enough to pass as teens.
* Julianna Rose Mauriello was 13 when she took on the role of 8-year old Stephanie on the children's show ''[[Lazy Town]]'', and is still playing her at 17. By the second season, filmed when she was 15, it was obvious that Julianna was no longer a little girl, and in ''LazyTown Extra'', filmed when she was 17, the character mentions she's lived in [[Lazy Town]] for a year, which would make her 9.
** And if rumors are to be believed, ''[[Lazy Town]]'' is returning in 2011 and might even have Julianna reprise her role as Stephanie...despite the fact that she is now 20 years old and will still be playing a 9 year old.
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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 ''[[MashM*A*S*H (TV)|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.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit (TV)|Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' which featured an adult conwoman who posed as a teenager in several different high schools {{spoiler|to the point of having sex with her teenaged boyfriends, and had her current lover killed when he found out. The actress in question is actually younger than the role she was cast in, she was 26 and the character was 28}}. As many other cases, the plot was [[Ripped Fromfrom the Headlines]]: [http://swallowingthecamel.blogspot.com/2010/11/fake-teens-iv-serial-teen-treva.html see it here.]
** In an episode of ''[[Law and Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'' with a similar plot, the female murderer is played by a 20 year old actress. The character is a 26 year old woman pretending to be a 16 year old girl.
** The [[Ripped Fromfrom the Headlines]] (sort of) precursor of the above, an adult writer posed as a teenager in order to sell her scripts; naturally this was made into TV movie.
** In ''[[CSI: NY]]'' {{spoiler|this was gender-reversed; the conwoman was turned into a pair of paedophiles, the girlfriends were date-raped and the guidance counselor was killed when he found out}}.
* All of the secondary school pupils in the seventies Britcom ''[[Please Sir (TV)|Please Sir]]'' were quite visibly in their late twenties or early thirties.
* Nog, in ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' was supposedly a young teenager, but played by Aron Eisenberg, who was in his twenties when the series started. This is, however, something of an odd aversion: he was cast because a kidney transplant in his youth stunted his growth and they wanted him to remain short, since Ferengi are smaller than other humanoids. However, it got incredibly jarring, because his best friend Jake (whose actor was two years older than the character, but didn't look it) had some crazy growth spurts and ended up being 6'3" by the time the series ended. I guess they didn't expect Nog to stick around as a recurring character for that long.
** [[Wil Wheaton]] was 15 when playing a 15-year old [[CreatorsCreator's Pet|Wesley Crusher]]. ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' in general has avoided this with the child characters, with several recurring children on ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' being played by the appropriate age.
*** One of the worst examples was the Original Series episode "Miri". The "kids" in that would have died if they'd hit puberty (so "early" blooming cannot explain this away)--but some of them looked like they were in their thirties. Or older.
** The best-known [[Dawson Casting]] in the Original Series might be Chekov, who was supposed to be 21 years old when 31-year old Walter Koenig joined the show in 1967.
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* In ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]],'' Nicholas D'Agosto was 27 years old when he started playing high school student West Rosen.
** In "Five Years Gone" and other episodes set in an alternate future, Claire doesn't look notably older {{spoiler|but as her genetic ability slows her aging process to a stop, like it did with Adam Monroe, this is understandable}}.
* Period drama ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' is an interesting case of [[Justified Trope]] [[Dawson Casting]]: at the beginning of the series, Elizabeth Bellamy is 17, played by 26 year old Nicola Pagett. But there are frequent [[Time Skip|Time Skips]] forward, making the character around 29 at her final episode.
** Pauline Collins is several years older than the age of her character, Sarah, in the first few episodes, but like Elizabeth, they line up better by her last episode. It seems less egregious with an adult actor, because it's perfectly legitimate to cast someone according to the age she appears, rather than her actual age, and Collins did look younger than she was.
* J.D. Williams was 24 when he began playing then-16-year old Bodie Broadus on ''[[The Wire]]''. Julito McCullum was 17 when his character (Namond Brice) was 14, and Tristan Wilds was 18 when his (Michael Lee) was 14. Other characters were exceptions to this trope (see below).
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** It's arguably justified in that every episode is a [[Musical Episode]]; it would probably be difficult too find high-school aged actors that could sing ''and'' act convincingly enough to compete with whom they've actually cast.
* Totally averted by BBC children's dramas ''[[Byker Grove]]'' and ''[[Grange Hill (TV)|Grange Hill]]'', where all the actors playing children were about the same age as their characters. Some were even a year or so younger.
* ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy (TV)|Greys Anatomy]]'' pulls off [[Dawson Casting]] with tweens: In season 1, the characters start their internship at the Seattle Grace, so they should be around 25 (give or take). Ellen Pompeo playing Meredith was 35 at the time of filming and the actors of Cristina, George and Alex were also in their thirties. Only averted with 26-year old Katherine Heigl as Izzie.
** It's justifiable, at least in some cases- Meredith, for example, is said to have taken time off before med school, and most of the characters don't have stated ages. But it's kind of confusing when considering a character like Cristina- Sandra Oh is clearly in her 30s, so the only logical explanation is that Cristina also took time off at some point during her education, something that [[Insufferable Genius|Cristina]] would never do.
* The Channel 4 docudrama series ''The Queen'' had a mild case with the 26-year old Katie McGrath playing the 21-year old Princess Margaret (though she is 25 by the end of the episode). More extreme is the 35-year old Emilia Fox playing the 25-year old Queen Elizabeth II.
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* Charlotte Coleman was in her early 20s when playing teenage Jess in the TV adaptation of ''[[Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit]]''.
* On the [[Soap Opera]] ''[[All My Children]]'', [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]] first appeared on the show at the real-life age of 18, but she appeared as the main character [[Erica Kane]]'s previously-unknown daughter. [[Susan Lucci]], the actress who portrays Erica, has been on the show since it first aired, and there had never been a mention of an unknown daughter being born. The show tried to cover this up by claiming that the daughter was the product of a rape of Erica when she was 13, which would have made Gellar's character in her 20s. Nobody really bought it, but just wrote it off as [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]].
* The ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' episode "Neverland" heavily featured three fourteen year old characters. Two were played by actual kids of that age (one from ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]''). The last was played by an [[I CarlyICarly (TV)|actor]] who's 18.
* More [[Selma Blair]] examples:
** ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'' almost avoided this until 23-year old Selma Blair arrived in the episode "Das Bus."
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** Inverted in Disney's adaptation for ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'', in which the actors Tim Considine and Tommy Kirk were younger than the books -- 12 and 11.
* ''[[Boston Public]]''
* In ''[[Seventh7th Heaven (TV)|Seventh Heaven]]'' Barry Watson was 22 when he started playing high school junior Matt Camden, though the rest of the actors playing the Camden kids were of the right age.
* ''[[Square Pegs]]'' is a show from the 1982/1983 season about the two groups of 14 year old freshman who vie for popularity. It is often overlooked for this trope because half of the cast is under 18 (though all older than their characters). However, the other half was over 18, including Tracy Nelson (Jennifer) who was born in 1963, Jon Caliri (Vinnie) who was born in 1960, Merritt Butrick (Slash) who was born in 1959, and Claudette Wells (LaDonna) who was born in 1954, making her 28, making her twice the age of her character.
* Gabe Kaplan stated [[Word of God|in interviews]] that he believed part of the reason the ratings for ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter (TV)|Welcome Back Kotter]]'' began to decline in series three was that the Sweathogs, whose actors were now 24-29 years old, were simply too old to still be believable as high school students.
* Both averted and played straight in ''[[What I Like About You (TV)|What I Like About You]]''. Extremely averted with Holly (who's in-universe birthdays were near her actress, Amanda Bynes'); played straight with Henry, Vince, and Gary, all of whom were played by actors who were 24/25 at the time of their introductions, and Tina, whose actress was 28 at the time of her introduction.
* [[Lincoln Heights]] has quite an extreme example with the 27-28 year old (during season 1) Erica Hubbard playing 16 year old Cassie Sutton. What makes this particularly interesting is that the actors portraying her parents where born in 1970 and 1974, making them only 9 and 5 years older than her. Even more interesting is the actors playing her younger sibling were born in 1992 and 1993, making her 13 and 14 years older than them!
** Erica Hubbard's original birth date was thought to be January 3, 1984 which would have made her about 22-23 during season 1.
* ''[[Kath and Kim]]'s'' Kim is supposed to be in her mid-to-late 20's. Gina Riley, the actress who plays her, is pushing 50.
* An inversion seems to have been the original four series of [[Upstairs, Downstairs]], which covered thirty years of historical period but only four years of real time. The characters remained the same age throughout the series, frozen in time between 1903 and 1930. The only attention paid to the passage of time seemed to be James, who grew grey about the temples. In the modern remake, Jean Marsh, now forty years older, reprises her role as Rose Buck, meaning Rose ages forty years in only six between the end of the Bellamy era in 1930 and the beginning of the Holland residence at Eaton Place in 1936. It does help, however, that the cast changed periodically, with Hazel and then Virginia replacing Lady Marjorie as "her Ladyship" and the introduction of another young lady, Georgina, to take on Elizabeth Bellamy-Kirbridge's role in the story. In the servants' hall, the cast similarly gains and loses members (adding Frederick and Daisy in the 1920s), but as the series progresses we still never see Rose, Edward, Hudson, Mrs Bridges or Ruby age.
* In the Canadian series ''[[Student Bodies]]'', all the actors playing teenagers were in their early 20s.
* Annie Edison on ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' is in her late teens, in real life Alison Brie is in her mid-twenties.
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* A woman, Treva Throneberry, pretended to be a teenager throughout her 20s and early 30s and moved from foster home to foster home. She got a tuition to go to college and was finally arrested for fraud. [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/scams/treva_throneberry/index.html Interestingly, she didn't look especially youthful.]
* 31-year-old Patricia Dye posed as a teenage boy so that she could have sex with a teen girl.
* Adult police officers will often pose as teens to [[Dateline (TV)|catch sexual predators]], or [[Twenty One21 Jump Street (TV)|to catch juvenile offenders]].
* A member of the Hong Kong police force successfully posed as a 15-year old high school student to uncover Triad recruitment of high school students. [http://www.cracked.com/article_18562_the-6-most-hilarious-undercover-operations-ever-pulled-off_p2.html He got the idea from a movie.]
* There was an incident where a client of a prostitution ring requested an underage girl. [[Even Evil Has Standards|The owner of the ring contacted the police anonymously and agreed to help set up a sting against the client.]] The police sent a female officer to him claiming to be 15-years old. [[What an Idiot!|He believed it and discussed sexual activities with her]] leading to his arrest.
* [[Cosplay|Cosplayers]] regularly portray characters that are considerably younger than themselves. Characters in their younger to mid-teens are prevalent in many popular series; meanwhile, the skills you need to make your own costumes require time and practice to develop. Even if you opt to buy your costumes, [[Crack Isis Cheaper|cosplaying eats up a LOT of money either way]], so you're generally much better off if you have an income level more typical of an adult.
* [[Cameron Crowe]] enrolled as a high school student at age 22, to research his book on teen life, called ''[[Fast Times At Ridgemont High (Film)|Fast Times At Ridgemont High]].''
** [[Kevin Bacon]] enrolled as a high school student prior to filming ''[[Footloose]]'' just to see if he was still believable as a teen at age 25, according to the Footloose DVD commentary.
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* In ''[[Monty Pythons the Meaning of Life (Film)|Monty Pythons the Meaning of Life]]'' there is a scene in which an instructor (played by [[John Cleese (Creator)|John Cleese]]) at what appears to be a religious institution of learning is teaching a class how to [[Good People Have Good Sex|have intercourse with his good lady-wife]]. While in the church service, all the children are... well, ''children''. When we get to the classroom and intercourse discussion, however, they are all played by the various Pythons.
** 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 BuellersBueller's Day Off (Film)|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]''. Her character Sloane was a junior in high school; she was 18 at the time.
* ''[[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.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Claire Danes (Angela) and Devon Gummersall (Brian) from ''[[My So -Called Life]]'' really were teenagers at the time of filming -- although the rest of the teenage characters were played by twentysomethings (including the aforementioned Senta Moses).
** This is a rare, possibly unique inversion, especially for an actress, as the producers knew that Danes was only 13 years old (at the start of filming) yet they still cast her to play a character two full years older than the actress, without any retcons or fudging the numbers.
** Justified with Jared Leto in the character of Jordan, who is repeating the grade the rest of the kids are in...at least for the second time.
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* Incredibly, Maria Callas began her opera career at the age of 15, as the leading lady in ''Cavallera rusticana'', which is about a young, knocked-up village girl, probably about 15-16. Since it requires performers who can sing over an orchestra, this trope doesn't have many opera exceptions, folks.
* Although there is one other noticeable aversion in the field of opera -- Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. Tchaikovsky felt that older singers playing young, passionate lovers would cause people to be unable to take his opera seriously. He had students at the Moscow Conservatory put on the first performance of Eugene Onegin.
* Lampshaded by the [[The Firesign Theatre (Radio)|Firesign Theatre]] on their album ''Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers''; High school student Porgie Tirebiter's best friend Mudhead is in court, and the prosecutor (Porgie's dad) says "So you don't go to school?" to which Mudhead replies, "Hell, no! I'm thirty years old!"
* This one is in "Other" because it derives from Theatre, Live-Action Film, ''and'' Television: Patty Duke in three separate productions of ''The Miracle Worker''. Duke was able to play Helen Keller on Broadway well into her teens, and played her again in the 1962 film adaptation, partly because she was very small: even in adulthood she has never grown taller than five feet. Her height presented a particular challenge to the producers of the 1979 TV remake, in which she played Annie Sullivan, because she was cast opposite fifteen-year-old Melissa Gilbert -- confronting audiences with a seven-year-old Helen Keller who was ''[[Teens Are Short|taller than her teacher]]''.
* The Full Cast Audio book recordings, which was founded by Bruce Coville, ''always'' uses age-appropriate voice actors for every book they record.
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