Posted 23 minutes agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down28 Actors With The Biggest Age Gaps Between Them And The Teenagers They PlayedAll these adults playing teens is why I had trust issues in high school.by Ehis OsifoBuzzFeed ContributorFacebookPinterestLink Growing up, I was no stranger to the YA drama or the teen comedy - Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The O.C., you name it. As a teen, I was always so confused as to why the kids I went to high school with never looked like the high school kids on screen. Lo and behold, it was because all these "teenage" characters were played by full-on adults. NBC 1. Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore in Vampire Diaries: The CW Age depicted on screen (Season 1): 17Actual age at the time: 27