15 Former Child Stars Who Grew Up To Be Huge, Huge, HUGE Celebrities - And You Never Noticed

Posted 3 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down15 Former Child Stars Who Grew Up To Be Huge, Huge, HUGE Celebrities - And You Never NoticedJodie Foster accomplished more at 13 than I've accomplished, well, ever.by Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink There are some celebrities who are pretty much renowned for being former child stars; Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, and Macaulay Culkin, to name a few. Frank Trapper / Getty Images But there are also a whole bunch of established Hollywood actors whose child acting past always comes as a surprise. So, here are 15 actors who you might not have realized actually got their start in childhood: 1. Nowadays, 40-year-old Scarlett Johansson is best known for her roles in movies like Lost In Translation, Jojo Rabbit, and - most recently - Jurassic World Rebirth: (C) Universal Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection But she has actually been in the industry forever, with the star landing her first role as a sketch character on a 1994 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien when she was just 9 years old: NBC / Via youtube.com Later that same year, Scarlett made her movie debut as John Ritter's daughter in North, and her first leading role came with the 1996 movie Manny & Lo, when she was 11 years old. New Line Cinema / Via youtube.com Scarlett gained more mainstream traction at 13 thanks to her performance in the movie The Horse Whisperer, and her definitive breakout role was in the 2001 comedy Ghost World when she was 16 years old. Touchstone Pictures / Via youtube.com NBC 2. Christian Bale, 51, was last seen on screen in the 2022 movie The Pale Blue Eye: Scott Garfield / (C) Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection But most people don't realize that he is also a former child star, earning his first credit at age 12 in the 1986 movie Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna: Telecom Entertainment / Via youtube.com He continued to work throughout his teens, starring in the 1987 movie Empire of the Sun, as well as Henry V and Treasure Island. Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett Collection Telecom Entertainment, Scott Garfield / (C) Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection 3. Elisabeth Moss, 43, is best known for playing June in The Handmaid's Tale, which came to an end earlier this year: Steve Wilkie / Disney But she has actually been acting since 1990, landing her first credited role in the TV film Bar Girls at age 7: Touchstone Television / Via youtube.com She made her movie debut in 1991 in the film Suburban Commando, and in 1994, at age 11, she took on the role of Greta in Imaginary Crimes. Elisabeth also did a lot of voice acting as a child, with credited performances in Once Upon A Forest and Frosty Returns, among others. (C)Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Elisabeth worked steadily throughout her childhood, and was 17 years old when she landed one of her breakout movie roles in Girl, Interrupted: (C)Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Touchstone Television, Steve Wilkie / Disney 4. At age 50, Leonardo DiCaprio is objectively one of the biggest actors on the planet, starring in huge movies like Titanic, Django Unchained, and One Battle After Another over the decades. (C) Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection But he was actually just 14 years old when he first started acting, starring in two episodes of The New Lassie in 1989, The Mickey Mouse Club in 1990, and landing a recurring role in the TV show Parenthood between 1990 and 1991. NBC / Via youtube.com Leo was 16 years old when he was cast in what was perhaps his most famous early TV role in the show Growing Pains, and he made his movie debut that same year in the straight-to-video horror Critters 3. New Line Cinema / Via youtube.com Leo then had a pretty iconic run in 1993 - the year that he turned 18 - when two huge movies were released: This Boy's Life, in which he starred alongside his now-industry peer Robert De Niro, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, which earned him his first of many Oscar nominations. (C)Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection NBC 5. Cynthia Nixon is renowned for playing Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City, its subsequent movie spin-offs, and then its sequel series, ...

And Just Like That, which came to an end earlier this year: Craig Blankenhorn via HBO But did you know that the 59-year-old star has actually been acting since she was just 13 years old? Her first major movie role was playing Sunshine Walker in the 1980 classic Little Darlings: Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com The following year, she starred in the critically acclaimed drama Prince of the City, and Cynthia went on to appear in several other movies and TV films, like I Am The Cheese and My Body, My Child, before her 18th birthday. Abc Photo Archives / Getty Images Paramount Pictures, Craig Blankenhorn via HBO 6. Absolutely everybody knows 34-year-old Jeremy Allen White for his Emmy-winning performance in The Bear, with the actor most recently being seen playing rocker Bruce Springsteen in the biopi