Saoirse Ronan
Was nominated for an Oscar at the age of 13 as Best Supporting Actress for Atonement (2007). Since then she has received three more Oscar nominations from 2016 to 2020. She has also been nominated five times for a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) from 2008 to 2020. She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 2018 for the film Lady Bird (2017).
Jodie Foster
Started started acting at a very younger and won an Oscar as Best Actress for The Silence of the Lambs in 1992.
So many already have been mentioned.
but I didn’t see Natalie Portman
I think nobody would disagree on this.
Elijah Wood
Neil Patrick Harris
Jason Bateman
Ron Howard
Judy Garland
Mickey Rooney
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Unfortunately, it seems to me that most of the child actors have gone the wrong way at least a period in their life .. I collected some that seem more familiars…
Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment's iconic performance in The Sixth Sense (1999) brought him fame and fortune at a very young age, all of which disappeared fairly quickly as he got older…
Jaimee Foxworth
played the youngest member of the family, Judy Winslow, for four seasons before she was written off the show with no explanation. In 2008 she appeared in VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew ….
Amanda Bynes
Her acting career began at age 7 with a television commercial for Buncha Crunch. She starred in “The Amanda Show” from 1999 to 2002, in May of 2013, she was sentenced to three years’ probation.
Taran Noah Smith
Taran Noah Smith was the awkward, youngest son on the popular '90s sitcom, “Home Improvement,” In 2012, Taran was arrested and charge with DUI in LA…
Brian Bonsall
Got his start in show business at the age of 5 in the role of Andrew Keaton on the hit TV series “Family Ties.” In December of 2009, he repeatedly hit his best friend in the head with a wooden stool while they were both drinking heavily.
Aaron Carter
At the age of 10, he opened as a solo act for The Backstreet Boys, and got a record contract. in 2008, Carter was arrested for speeding in Texas, Three years later, he addicted to prescription drugs, his brother Nick and his mother forced him into rehab at the Betty Ford Center, he recently completed a debt program to get himself back on a strong financial track.
Lindsay Lohan
You all know her story… I think I have nothing to renew…
Demi Lovato
I was wondering whether to put her on the list or not... I hope everything will work out for her :)
Macaulay Culkin
I forgot to put him on the list too.. so I had to edit the answer :)
Since briefly retiring from acting at the age of 14, Macaulay was a regular voiceover artist in Robot Chicken and most recently made an appearance as himself on sitcom The Jim Gaffigan Show. She started out in television commercials at age 7, and at 13, landed the role of Kimberly Drummond on the hugely popular sitcom “Diff'rent Strokes”. She started using drugs around the same time, nearly dying from an overdose of Valium at 14.
In 1984, when she was 19, she became pregnant and married her boyfriend, Lanny Lambert. Due to her pregnancy, she was written out of “Diff'rent Strokes” — according to the producers, her pregnancy was considered incompatible with the show’s wholesome image, although she was brought back for a few guest appearances.
Following her departure from “Diff'rent Strokes”, Plato tried to continue as a serious actress, but like many young stars, her past was difficult to escape, and few reputable productions showed interest in hiring her. She turned instead to B-movies, and also posed nude for Playboy.
She and Lambert separated in 1988; her mother died the same week. Reeling, she signed over power of attorney to an accountant … who soon absconded with most of her money. Then, in her divorce, she lost custody of her son Tyler to Lambert.
She moved to Las Vegas, where she struggled with poverty, and in 1991, made headlines when she robbed a liquor store with a pellet gun, for which she received 5 years probation. (The store clerk told the dispatcher in his 911 call, “I've just been robbed by the girl who played Kimberly on ‘Diff'rent Strokes’”.)
A year later, she was arrested again, for forging a prescription for Valium. This time she served 30 days for violating her probation, and was ordered to enter rehab.
Over the next few years, Plato's only acting work was in softcore porn. By 1999, she was engaged to her manager, Robert Menchaca, and living in Florida.
On May 8, 1999, while visiting Menchaca's mother in Oklahoma, Plato, not feeling well, went to lie down for a nap in her motor home.
She never woke up.
EDITED per comment: The day before, she had appeared via phone on “The Howard Stern Show”, and insisted that she had been clean and sober for years, while callers belittled her.
The postmortem toxicology report confirmed that she had died of an overdose of the drugs Soma and Lortab. She was 34 years old. (Her son Tyler would take his own life at age 24, just two days prior to the 10th anniversary of his mother's death.)
I don't want to post her mugshot or some “before and after” thing. She suffered enough in life. So here she is as Kimberly on “Diff'rent Strokes”:
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