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[[File:babyjane 7479.jpg|link=What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?|frame|Apparently, ''this'' is what happened to Baby Jane. Not a pretty sight.]]
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** Averted with his brother Joaquin, who's got a pretty good career as an adult, but played up to the trope with his extended breakdown in the fake-autobiographical ''I'm Still Here''.
* The rather sad case of Bobby Driscoll who was Disney's golden boy during the 1940s. Famous for his roles in ''Song Of The South'' and ''Peter Pan'' he was in several movies but was abruptly let go in the middle of the 1950s. He was ridiculed in school for being a child star and lapsed into obscurity through drugs. He was found dead and the body wasn't identified until a year later.
* Other than the [[Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen|Olsen Twins]] (who have also fallen out), just about all of the child/teenage actors who starred in ''[[Full House]]'' fell out of the limelight for quite a long time. It says something that the [[Career Resurrection]] move for the three main non-Olsen girls that
** Jodie Sweetin in particular stands out as an example of this trope played straight. Facing an inability to find further work and a traumatic social life due to being typecast as Stephanie Tanner, she became an alcoholic and a habitual user of marijuana, cocaine, LSD and most famously, meth. However, she seems to have gotten her life back on track recently, has published a memoir about her drug addiction, and finally got a [[Career Resurrection]] of sorts with ''Fuller House''.
** Before starring in ''Fuller House'', Candace Cameron had bounced back a bit, appearing on ''[[Make It or Break It]]''. Not as well-known or massive as ''Full House'' was in its time, but still a noteworthy performance. She also was a host on talk show ''[[The View]]''
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** Although Saviano has been the subject of the famous myth that he became Marilyn Manson when he grew up which he has found very amusing
* [[Christian Bale]]. He rose to fame as a child actor in films like ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' and his [[Old Shame]] ''[[Newsies]]'', but truly came into his own in ''[[American Psycho]]'' and is now best known as [[Batman]] from ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', and won a Best Supporting Actor [[Oscar]] for his work in ''[[The Fighter]]''.
* [[The Partridge Family|Danny Bonaduce]] has [[Adam Westing|made an entire ''career'']] out of being a washed-up ex-child-star. On
* [[Natalie Wood]]. Starred in [[Miracle on 34th Street]] aged 8, but successfully adapted to 'grown-up' parts in her teens with ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'' and ''[[The Searchers]]'' and is barely remembered as a child star at all.
* [[Natalie Portman]]. Her first big role was at the age of 11/12 in ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'', and she has been <s>equally</s> ''far'' more successful as an adult, starring in the [[Star Wars]] prequel films, ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', ''[[Black Swan]]'' (which won her an Oscar) and ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]''. Like Emma Watson below, Portman's taking a career break to go to college (and [[Ivy League|Harvard]], [[Teen Genius|no less]]) may have had something to do with it. Like Christian Bale, she also won an Oscar, for Best Actress, for her role in ''[[Black Swan]]''.
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