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* [[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 interviews and on his comedy routines, he makes a point of stating that he would have turned into a drug-addicted [[Jerkass]] with or without his role on ''[[The Partridge Family]]''.
* [[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]]''.
* [[Kirsten Dunst]]. Her first big role was in ''Interview With The Vampire'' at 12 then ''[[Jumanji]]'' when she was 14, but she went on to a string of critically acclaimed as well as commercially successful roles in the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' films, ''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]'', ''[[Marie Antoinette (film)|Marie Antoinette]]'', and ''[[Melancholia]]'', which won her the Best Actress award at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 2011.
* Speaking of Christmas movies, Peter Billingsley from ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' grew up to be a successful director and producer. [[Bishounen|And he's quite handsome,]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602081231/http://images.buddytv.com/articles/movies/profiles/peter-billingsley.jpg too.]
* [[Ron Howard]]. Starting out as Opie on ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' and ''[[Happy Days]]'' he went on to direct films like ''Apollo13'' and ''[[A Beautiful Mind]]'' (not to mention his
** Howard is still an [[Acceptable Target]] in comedy for how his ''appearance'' has aged horribly.
* [[Neil Patrick Harris]] is a notable aversion: after spending his teens on ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'', he worked steadily as a guest star on TV and on Broadway. But his career ''really'' took off after he did a cameo in the first ''[[Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle]]'' movie - ironically enough, playing a lecherous, drug-addled version of himself. He became best known to present-day audiences as the womanizing Barney Stimson on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', as well as Dr. Horrible from ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]''.
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** [[Daniel Radcliffe]], apart from his role as the title character, starred in the stage play ''[[Equus]]'' and was critically acclaimed for his performance. He has since begun slowly branching out into other film and stage productions.
** [[Rupert Grint]]'s major claim to eccentricity is owning an ice cream truck, saying that if his career after the ''Harry Potter'' movies are finished falls through, he can always fall back on a career as an ice cream man. A fairly mild indulgence for a multimillionaire, all things considered.
** As for [[Emma Watson]]... well, let's face it, there's no way anyone as good looking as her won't get at least a few more major roles in her career. Much like her character, she has done very well in school work and decided that, after her work with the movie series is done, she'd take a career break to finish her college degree like [[Natalie Portman]] did. Eventually she went to college while continuing her career, appearing in films like ''My Week with Marilyn'' in 2011, the film version of ''[[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]'' in 2012, and the live-action version of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''
*** Film critic Leonard Maltin famously said that Watson was in "the early stages of babehood". Now that she's most certainly an adult and effectively an adult actress, she is considered to have reached that milepost.
** As a side note, [[Chris Columbus]], who directed the first two ''Potter'' films, previously directed ''Home Alone''. As he has discussed in interviews, Columbus is unhappy with how Macaulay Culkin turned out and considers this partly his fault. When casting the ''Potter'' kids, he was determined to avoid the same mistakes and tried to cast children with stable home lives.
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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 first trilogy of ''[[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]].
* [[Jennifer Connelly]] went a long way from being a young girl in ''[[Labyrinth]]'' to being the respectable adult actress she is today.
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* 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
* 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.
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* At one point, [[Drew Barrymore]] was the epitome of the bad end of this trope; at the age of 15, she already went through smoking cigarettes and pot, drinking, doing cocaine, attempting suicide and staying in rehab twice. However, she eventually sobered up and became a successful adult actress.
* [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] took a breather from acting after playing Tommy on ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''. Since he resumed his career, he's won raves in just about every project he's done.
* Something similar can be said of [[Wil Wheaton]] and his role as [[Creator's Pet|Wesley]]. But he grew up pretty well of it.
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* Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett are subversions as well, now much better known for their indie rock band [[Rilo Kiley]] then their pasts as child actors.
* Jackie Coogan starred with [[Charlie Chaplin]] as The Kid, sued his parents for squandering his film earnings before he became an adult ([[There Should Be a Law|which led to]] the California Child Actor's Bill, AKA the Coogan Act), and much later became known as TV's [[The Addams Family|Uncle Fester]].
▲* Will Wheaton has built an adult career convincing executives "geeks" (who he simultaneously expressed hatred for on social media) actually like him. Critical and audience reception of his modern works shows that, no, audiences still hate him.
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