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** Another aversion: early productions of ''Oliver!'' featured Steve Marriott in the titular role. Marriott infuriated his family by choosing music over acting, given that he'd already established success, but went on to be the extremely popular frontman for Small Faces and Humble Pie.
* Whit Hertford was a fairly popular child actor and voice actor appearing in works like ''Jurassic Park'', ''[[Full House]]'', and ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', he came back into show business having a successful career as an actor, writer, and director.
* After a successful career as a child, which included an Oscar for her role in ''The Piano'', [[Anna Paquin]] transitioned to adulthood easily, finding her best work on T.V., while becoming very visible as Rogue in the ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' movies.
* Averted with [[Sarah Jessica Parker]], who started her career as [[Annie]] on Broadway and ''[[Square Pegs]]'', then made the transition to adult star with plenty of movie roles...and then she starred in ''[[Sex and the City]]''...
* Sean Astin transitioned fairly well from [[The Goonies|child actor]] to [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|adult actor]].
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* Thomas Sangster, from such films as ''[[Love Actually]]'' and ''[[Nanny McPhee]]'', has had success beyond his cute little boy image, in films as diverse as ''Hitler: The Rise of Evil'' and ''Tristan & Isolde''. Sangster also played young Paul McCartney in ''[[Nowhere Boy]]''.
* Back in the 1910s, at the Vitagraph film studio, there was a local kid from Brooklyn named Harry Horowitz who enjoyed hanging out there. Harry was charming and [[Large Ham|a natural ham]], and the Vitagraph people began putting him in films, making him a child star. Young Harry would grow up to be one of the most violent and abusive men in the world: {{spoiler|Moe Howard of [[The Three Stooges]]. [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|But it's an aversion too.]]}}
* Stefan Brogren has come as close as anyone to being a [[Real Life]] version of [[SCTV]]'s "Rusty" by playing the role of Archie "Snake" Simpson in every incarnation of the ''[[Degrassi]]'' franchise since 1987 while taking on an ever larger role behind the camera. His character, however, has aged and progressed from student to teacher to principal of the titular [[High School]], while the show's hiatus coincides with the period the character would've been getting his degree.
* [[Justin Timberlake]] started off early, as a performer on The New Mickey Mouse Club (other cast members included Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera). After departing from N*Sync, he's gone on to have a successful solo music career, and has appeared in films like ''[[The Social Network]]''.
* Elijah Wood started off as a modestly successful child actor, appearing in such films as ''[[Back to The Future|Back to the Future: Part II]]'', ''[[The Good Son]]'', and ''[[North]]''. It wasn't until starring in Peter Jackson's take on ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' that his adult career really kicked off.
* Blake Foster has been doing alright since his time as [[Power Rangers Turbo|Justin Stewart]], and while Justin was decried by many back then, there are plenty who wouldn't mind having him return.
* Mayim Bialik hit it big with the Bette Midler film ''[[Beaches]]'' and then her own long-running [[Sitcom]], ''[[Blossom]]''. Then, like Natalie Portman, Emma Watson and others she left show business to go to college, where she got a Ph.D. in neuroscience. And then she returned to show business as a regular on ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.
* Danielle Brisebois started her career on Broadway as "the littlest orphan" in ''[[Annie]]'' and kept working for years, including a notable turn as Archie Bunker's niece Stephanie on ''[[All in The Family]]'' and ''[[Archie Bunker's Place]]''. In the late 1980s she retired from acting and began a music career that included membership in the short-lived group [[New Radicals]], a successful solo career, producing, writing, and an [[Academy Award]] nomination for song-writing.
* [[Brooke Shields]] started as a child model, transitioned to acting with the infamous film ''[[Pretty Baby]]'', and continued acting through her teens, until like others on this list she took time off to attend [[Ivy League|Princeton University]] in the mid-1980s. Her career appeared to die for about a decade, but after a notable guest appearance on ''[[Friends]]'' as a [[Stalker with a Crush]] she got her own sitcom, ''[[Suddenly Susan]]'', and despite raising a family has managed to maintain an active acting career since.
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