These Former Child Stars Then & Now Will Make You Feel Nostalgic AF

JTT roseate to fame playing brainy and adorable mediate kid Randy Taylor connected Home Improvement starting successful 1991. His big-screen roles that decennary included voicing young Simba successful The Lion King (though that's not him singing) and starring with Brad Renfro successful 1995's Tom and Huck and Devon Sawa successful 1997's Wild America. 

He left Home Improvement in 1998 (Randy went to Costa Rica) to absorption connected school, but kept acting connected his database of extracurriculars.

He had a recurring relation connected 8 Simple Rules in 2004 and successful 2013 reunited with TV dada Tim Allen to nonstop (and look successful ) respective episodes of Last Man Standing.

But though JTT backed distant from the spotlight to unrecorded his life, which included graduating from Columbia successful 2010, Thomas doesn't request to beryllium onscreen to origin a splash: On the rare occasions the paparazzi drawback him, the sightings spell viral.

Few 6-year-olds person made splashier movie debuts than Lipnicki, who went toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise in the charm section in Jerry Maguire and got astir arsenic galore memorable lines. He went connected to roles successful the Stuart Little films, Doctor Dolittle (voicing Baby Tiger), The Little Vampire and Little Mike, and helium guest-starred connected Dawson's Creek, but took a interruption to person a mean precocious schoolhouse experience.

He's inactive successful showbiz arsenic an adult, starring successful the 2023 Lifetime movie Secrets astatine the Museum. The L.A. autochthonal is besides a achromatic loop successful Brazilian jiu-jitsu and successful May 2021 helium volunteered to supply further information extracurricular a mid-city synagogue amid a emergence successful anti-Semitic vandalism and harassment. 

In 2017, Lipnicki opened up connected Instagram astir the bullying helium experienced successful mediate school, hoping that sharing his acquisition could lend immoderate comfortableness to others. 

He was "made amusive of relentlessly" by immoderate kids who then, down the road, indispensable person forgotten their atrocious behaviour and tried to person him connected Facebook. "I was told I was a has-been and would ne'er publication a occupation again," helium recalled. He started having nightly panic attacks, anticipating the adjacent day's humiliation. Yet helium had survived, adding, "I americium grateful for the astonishing beingness I person and I anticipation I tin walk connected that it DOES get better."

Wilson starred in Mrs. Doubtfire at 6 and Matilda astatine 9 earlier putting acting connected the backmost burner.

The writer and activistic released her memoir Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame in 2016 as good arsenic appeared connected Broad City and loaned her dependable to the animated shows BoJack Horseman, Big Hero 6: The Series and Helluva Boss.

"Once, idiosyncratic I'd considered a person asked, with a large smile, 'How does it consciousness to cognize you've peaked?'" Wilson recalled successful a February 2021 New York Times op-Ed about the perils of aboriginal fame for girls. "I didn't cognize however to answer, but present I would accidental that's the incorrect question. I haven't peaked, due to the fact that for me, The Narrative isn't a communicative idiosyncratic other is penning anymore. I tin constitute it myself."

Gordon-Levitt was a seasoned histrion by the clip helium starred arsenic Tommy Solomon, a subordinate of an alien fact-finding ngo posing arsenic an mean quality family, on 3rd Rock From the Sun. The amusement premiered erstwhile helium was 14 successful 1996, also the twelvemonth helium was seen arsenic Demi Moore's lad successful the thriller The Jury.

Soon, he was the nice feline with a crush successful 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You, a hustler successful 2004's Mysterious Skin and the determined teen sleuth trying to find retired what happened to his missing ex-girlfriend successful the 2005 noir drama Brick.

He could inactive walk for a teen good into his twenties, but erstwhile helium started playing adults, his assorted highlights person included 500 Days of Summer, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Inception, 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Lincoln, Don Jon (which helium besides wrote and directed) and Snowden. Gordon-Levitt explored much existent moments successful past arsenic a authoritative successful 2020's The Trial of the Chicago 7 and helium played Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick successful the bid Super Pumped.

He softly joined Tasha McCauley successful 2014 and they stock 2 children.

Thanks to her preternaturally poised show astatine the property of 12 successful 1994's The Professional, Portman was tagged with a definite gravitas astatine an aboriginal age—and she's inactive surviving up to her reputation. Since her auspicious debut, she's starred successful immense blockbusters (Star Wars: Episodes I done III; the Thor franchise and Avengers: Endgame), indie favorites (Beautiful Girls, Garden State), comedies (Mars Attacks!, Your Highness), intense dramas (Closer, Brothers) and apocalyptic thrillers (V for Vendetta, Annihilation).

She won the Best Actress Oscar for her crook arsenic a ballerina who's losing her caput successful 2010's Black Swan earned different information for channeling recently widowed Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie. She made her diagnostic directorial debut with 2015's A Tale of Love and Darkness, adapted from Amos Oz's autobiographical novel.

She joined her Black Swan choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, successful 2012 and they're parents of lad Aleph and girl Amalia.

Jones was champion known arsenic the lad of Jon Cryer's sadsack divorcé (and nephew of Charlie Sheen's playboy songwriter) on the '00s deed sitcom Two and a Half Men. In 2012, a video of Jones trashing the comedy, calling it "filth," surfaced online. The footage was from a 15-minute spiritual testimonial for Forerunner Chronicles, an Alabama-based Seventh-day Adventist ministry.

Jones aboriginal apologized for "showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a deficiency of appreciation of the bonzer accidental of which I person been blessed."

The histrion soon near the series, but returned for the finale successful 2015.

Jones, who earned a reported $350,000 per occurrence during his last play arsenic a full-time formed subordinate connected the CBS sitcom, told Houston TV presumption KHOU that the show "was making airy of topics successful our satellite that are truly problems for a batch of people, and I was a paid hypocrite due to the fact that I wasn't good with it, but I was inactive doing it."

Until an uncredited 2023 notch connected his IMDb from the Max bid Bookie, his past acting recognition was Louis C.K.'s 2016 constricted series Horace & Pete.

Jones attended the University of Colorado astatine Boulder, surviving what helium called a "normal existence," helium told People successful 2016. "I got beauteous doomsday with my reasoning for a agelong time, but present I'm having amusive and enjoying wherever I'm at," helium added. "I nary longer consciousness similar each measurement I instrumentality is connected a onshore mine."

Speaking of actors who could've been attached to 1 iconic relation forever, Radcliffe has done an admirable occupation putting himself retired determination for anti-Potter parts—whether connected signifier successful dramas similar Equus and The Cripple of Inishmaan or the classical philharmonic How to Succeed successful Business Without Really Trying; on movie arsenic Beat writer Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings oregon a flatulent corpse in Swiss Army Man; or connected TV arsenic an opioid-addicted doc in A Young Doctor's Notebook.

Most precocious helium wrapped up a four-season tally connected MIracle Workers, played the rubric entertainer in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and returned to Broadway in Merrily We Roll Along.

On a idiosyncratic note, Radcliffe is dad to a son with longtime spouse Erin Darke.

She made her acting debut astatine astir 6 successful the Andy Griffith Show spinoff Mayberry R.F.D. and earned her archetypal Oscar information astatine 14 for her crook arsenic a miss being prostituted by a creepy pimp successful Taxi Driver, her plight being what drives Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle to instrumentality convulsive action. Also successful 1976, Foster starred successful the original Freaky Friday, the tonal other of Taxi Driver, which made her much of a mainstream kid star.

The superior student took a interruption to be Yale, aft which she re-broke through—and won her archetypal Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress—playing a gang-rape unfortunate who presses charges against her attackers, not realizing that she'll extremity up connected proceedings successful a antithetic way, successful 1988's The Accused. She made her diagnostic directing debut with Little Man Tate in 1991, past won a Best Actress Oscar for her crook arsenic an intrepid FBI trainee in The Silence of the Lambs successful 1992.

The actress and filmmaker was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for beingness accomplishment astatine the 2013 Golden Globes and successful the past fewer years has done much directing for TV, helming episodes of House of Cards, Black Mirror and Orange Is the New Black. Her large big-screen credits successful the 21st period include Panic Room, Inside Man, Elysium, Hotel Artemis and The Mauritanian, which earned her a astonishment Golden Globe triumph successful 2021 for supporting actress.

In existent life, she's a parent of 2 sons with ex-partner Cydney Bernard, and she joined lensman and manager Alexandra Hedison successful 2014.

It was earthy for onetime kid histrion Jodie Foster to instrumentality Stewart nether her helping erstwhile they played parent and girl successful David Fincher's 2002 thriller Panic Room. Like her mentor, Stewart has gone connected to person a mixed-bag narration with fame, but connected a full different Internet-enhanced level aft winning the coveted, life-changing relation of Bella Swan successful the Twilight series erstwhile she was astir 16.

"I retrieve her reasoning determination wasn't a accidental I'd proceed being an actor," Stewart said of Foster, talking to Stellar magazine successful 2019. That, of course, had thing to bash with her talent, and everything to bash with her very non-showboating personality. Stewart added, "I truly emotion my job, but I recognize wherefore she would person thought that astir maine arsenic a kid. I emotion her."

The histrion and Chanel muse hasn't had occupation uncovering enactment since concluding the five-film Twilight saga, but different than the 2019 stab astatine reviving the Charlie's Angels franchise, she has preferred taking connected much intimate films, including The Clouds of Sils Maria, for which she became the archetypal American histrion to triumph a Cesar Award (France's equivalent of the Oscars), the eerie drama Personal Shopper and the not-quite-biopics Seberg and Spencer.

After her much-chronicled narration with Robert Pattinson ended, Stewart has chiefly dated women, and she's been engaged to Dylan Meyer since 2021.

Several decades earlier helium snapped his fingers and made fractional of Earth's colonisation disappear, the lad of actor James Brolin got his commencement playing the cool and exasperated but besides protective and big-hearted large member Brandon Walsh (yes, Brandon Walsh) successful 1985's Goonies.

Brolin went connected to bash a fewer (dozen) movies, including Flirting With Disaster, Mimic, No Country for Old Men (which won the Best Picture Oscar and reinvigorated his career), American Gangster, W. (playing 43rd President George W. Bush), Milk (he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his show arsenic Dan White, the San Francisco councilman who killed metropolis authoritative and cheery rights activist Harvey Milk), Jonah Hex, True Grit, Sicario, Deadpool 2 and, of course, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, cloaked successful CGI arsenic super-villain Thanos, and the sci-fi epic Dune (parts 1 and the upcoming two).

Brolin has 2 children from his archetypal marriage, to Alice Adair, aft which helium was joined to Diane Lane from 2004 until 2013. He and wife Kathryn Boyd, whom helium joined successful 2016, welcomed daughter Westlyn Reign Brolin in 2018 and different daughter, Chapel Grace Brolin, in December 2020.

She was hardly 10 erstwhile she made her movie debut alongside Cher and Winona Ryder in 1990's Mermaids and The Addams Family, co-starring Ricci as the amusingly morose Wednesday Addams, came retired the adjacent year.

More classic 1990s moments were made with Casper and Now and Then before Ricci embarked connected a career peppered with analyzable characters successful films specified as The Opposite of Sex, Buffalo '66, Fear and Loathing successful Las Vegas, Sleepy Hollow, Prozac Nation, Pumpkin and Monster, successful which she played the woman of serial slayer Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron, successful her Oscar-winning role). 

Whatever Ricci has been up to for the past 30 years, astir each of it has been adventurous, whether it's playing a glamorous '60s-era formation attendant successful the short-lived Pan Am or being chained to a radiator in Black Snake Moan, oregon taking connected fascinating real-life women, specified arsenic ax murderer Lizzie Borden in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, author and literate muse Zelda Fitzgerald in Z: The Beginning of Everything.

Ricci is ma to lad Freddie with ex-husband James Heerdegen.

In December 2021, the Yellowjackets star welcomed girl Cleopatra with hairdresser Mark Hampton, whom she married that October.

The Home Alone star cemented his icon presumption successful 1 fell shriek erstwhile helium was hardly 10, but helium had already been hard astatine enactment since astir the property of 5 successful TV movies, Uncle Buck, Jacob's Ladder and more. He gave it a astir decade-long remainder aft 1994's Ri¢hie Ri¢h, but the instrumentalist and creator has bounced successful and retired of the acting game arsenic helium sees fit, mainly successful tiny films with large taste footprints specified as Party Monster and Saved.

After providing his dependable to Adult Swim's Robot Chicken and playing a barista mentation of himself connected The Jim Gaffigan Show, and presuming each the pandemic protocol gets sorted out, Culkin volition beryllium joining the 10th season of American Horror Story, owed to premiere successful 2021.

The histrion is engaged to Brenda Song and they stock 2 sons, Dakota Song Culkin (named aft Culkin's older sister Dakota, who died successful a car mishap successful 2008) and different lad calved successful 2023 whose sanction is yet to beryllium revealed but who made his nationalist debut astatine his dad's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony connected Dec. 1, 2023.

It seems arsenic if Dakota went from playing Ally McBeal's 5-year-old aforesaid and Sean Penn's 6-year-old girl in I Am Sam to blazing a way arsenic the archetypal pistillate worker of the New York Police Department turned backstage detective successful the play drama The Alienist overnight. But no.

She's really conscionable been moving her process disconnected for much than 20 years, turning successful memorable performances in Uptown Girls, Man connected Fire, Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, Charlotte's Web, The Secret Life of Bees, three Twilight movies, American Pastoral and Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, playing real-life Charles Manson acolyte Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme.

In summation to starring in The Nightingale with small sister Elle Fanning, she's owed to topline an adaptation of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's classical (and only) caller astir a young pistillate battling intelligence unwellness successful the 1950s.

She whitethorn person gotten her commencement playing "Lucy 2 years," a younger mentation of her sister Dakota's quality in I Am Sam, but this Fanning has blazed her ain acting and benignant way isolated from her also-very-successful sibling.

Elle amassed the accustomed roles arsenic the kid of the grown-up stars successful assorted films (Daddy Day Care, The Door successful the Floor, Babel, Reservation Road) and guest-starred on multiple CSI franchises, Criminal Minds, House, Law & Order: SVU and much worldly she was astir apt inactive excessively young to ticker erstwhile she was successful it. But arsenic a teen and into her twenties, her movie enactment continued to span genres, from family fare (We Bought a Zoo, Maleficent) and YA (Super 8, Twixt) to prestige dramas (Trumbo, 20th Century Women) and disturbing fantasias (The Neon Demon, The Beguiled).

Along the way, she's played Mary Shelley successful a movie of the aforesaid sanction and Catherine the Great connected the Hulu satire The Great. And next, she and Dakota are signed up to play sisters in the anticipated big-screen adaptation of Kristin Hannah's World War II-era epic The Nightingale.

The histrion and vocalist has grown older since her star-making days connected the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, through which she seamlessly segued into family-friendly fare specified as Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen and A Cinderella Story.

But, aft a spot of a noticeable-role drought, Duff has excelled erstwhile again in Younger, playing the more-layered-than-meets-the-eye workfellow of Sutton Foster's 40-year-old posing arsenic a millennial in the critically acclaimed TV Land series, which is owed to instrumentality for a seventh season. And though the imaginable of a spin-off centered connected Duff's Younger quality Kelsey is exciting, O.G. fans really couldn't wait to spot her instrumentality arsenic Lizzie, though, successful a reboot planned for Disney+. Unfortunately, the revival of the beloved bid was shelved.

She has since starred successful 2 seasons of  How I Met Your Father.

Duff and hockey subordinate Mike Comrie, the begetter of her son, Luca Comrie, separated successful 2014 aft astir 4 years of matrimony and yet divorced. She and songwriter Matthew Koma welcomed girl Banks Violet Bair successful 2018 and got joined successful 2019. In 2021, they welcomed different babe girl, Mae James Bair.

The younger sister of Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron became crimped-hair manner inspo for 12-year-olds everyplace playing studious eldest Tanner sister D.J. on Full House, which ran from 1987 until 1995.

She has starred successful a parade of TV movies, immoderate with large messages to send, specified arsenic 1996's No One Would Tell, based on the existent communicative of a high schoolhouse student who was murdered by her 16-year-old fellow aft she silently suffered his maltreatment for months. (Yes, we're inactive haunted.)

But much recently, aft spending two seasons arsenic a co-host on The View, and successful summation to reuniting with astir the full Tanner household for 5 seasons of Fuller House on Netflix, Candace has go queen of the Hallmark Channel Christmas lineup, arsenic good arsenic the prima of the network's Aurora Teagarden murder-mystery franchise, based on the books by Charlaine Harris.

In 2021 she celebrated 25 years of matrimony to former NHL player Valeri Bure, with whom she has 3 children.

After playing mediate sister Stephanie Tanner on Full House for 8 seasons, Sweetin struggled with cause and intoxicant abuse—a travel she candidly described successful her 2009 memoir, unSweetined.

Three marriages betwixt 2002 and 2016 besides added to the header fodder, arsenic did her little engagement to Justin Hodak, who, among his assorted issues, ended up violating a restraining bid she had successful spot against him and successful 2019 was sentenced to much than six years successful situation for possession of a deadly limb and falsifying evidence.

Sober since 2008, the parent of daughters Zoie and Beatrix rejoined the Tanner household for 5 seasons of Fuller House on Netflix and has starred successful respective Hallmark Channel movies, including 2019's Christmas-themed Merry and Bright and the romanticist comedy Just Swipe.

It took 2 to play the relation of Michelle Tanner, who grew from a wide-eyed babe to a precocious 6-year-old connected the classical ABC sitcom Full House, aft which the fraternal twins parlayed their occurrence into a bid of big-screen and direct-to-video movies, a accumulation company, kids covering lines, books and different products, making for a full-blown Olsen empire.

While Mary-Kate continued to enactment past 2004's New York Minute, joining the formed of Weeds for a play and appearing successful the films The Wackness and Beastly, Ashley mostly near it behind—and present some are merely fashion manufacture superstars arsenic the co-founders of CFDA Award-winning The Row and Elizabeth & James.

Ashley softly welcomed her archetypal child with Louis Eisner, her spouse since 2017, successful 2023. Mary-Kate joined Olivier Sarkozy successful 2015 and filed for divorcement successful 2020.

Before the movie stardom, the accumulation company, the activism, the Oscar for The Revenant, the model girlfriends, the perpetual yacht life... helium was homeless teen Luke, who comes to unrecorded with the Seaver household on Growing Pains in 1991. Also an histrion whose babe look made him look other youthful good beyond his teens (he was already 16 on GP and had been acting for years), DiCaprio earned his archetypal of six Oscar nominations (for acting) for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and played a bid of troubled kids, in A Boy's Life, The Basketball Diaries, Marvin's Room and—troubled by love, anyway—Romeo + Juliet.

He inactive kinda looked similar a kid in Titanic, but astatine 22 helium had reached full-on heartthrob status.

Over the past decade, DiCaprio has starred successful films specified as Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, The Revenant (winning his archetypal Best Actor Oscar) and Killers of the Flower Moon.

Accio, adulthood!

Moving beyond her auspicious commencement as Hermione Granger successful 8 Harry Potter films, the English histrion moved connected to YA fare specified as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring, co-starred with Tom Hanks in The Circle, and has dedicated her platform as a UN Goodwill Ambassador to empowering women and advocating for sex equality astir the world.

The New Mexico autochthonal hit the jackpot his archetypal clip out, earning a Golden Globe information astatine 15 for his debut relation arsenic a sullen kid who bonds with his family's housekeeper successful the 1988 TV movie Clara's Heart. But it could've each gone incorrect for the prima of the dramedy Doogie Howser, M.D., successful which helium played a 16-year-old genius doctor—and NPH pretended that it did erstwhile helium gleefully spoofed himself in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

But though helium had a adust spell portion helium unwound from overdoing it arsenic a youngster adrift successful Hollywood, helium did tons of theater, including 3 Broadway shows, and the close TV relation yet presented itself successful the signifier of genial playboy Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, for which helium earned 4 Emmy nominations. In 2010 unsocial helium was nominated for 3 Emmys and won two, for co-producing the 2009 Tonys and guest-starring on Glee. 

The quadruple-threat—acting, singing, dancing, magic!—entertainer has present hosted the Tonys 4 times (winning the Emmy for peculiar people programing arsenic a shaper each time), arsenic good arsenic the Emmys doubly and the Oscars once, successful 2015. He besides won a Tony successful 2014 for Best Actor successful a Musical arsenic the prima of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Harris and longtime spouse David Burtka welcomed twins Gideon and Harper via surrogacy successful 2010 and tied the knot successful 2014.

At the property of 4, she was ridiculously cute arsenic the scene-stealing Olivia connected The Cosby Show, aft which she appeared successful films specified arsenic The Little Rascals, Doctor Dolittle and Doctor Dolittle 2. She landed her ain beloved Disney Channel sitcom, That's So Raven, successful 2003, and portion playing the psychic teen with inimitable manner sense she besides popped up connected a clump of the network's other productions, specified as The Cheetah Girls, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Kim Possible and Sonny With a Chance.

Her TV enactment successful the ensuing years aft her amusement ended successful 2007 included American Dad, Nashville, State of Georgia, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Master of None and Drunk History, and she's had a recurring relation on Black-ish since 2015. Raven-Symoné besides spent 3 seasons arsenic a co-host on The View and, successful June 2020, she joined Miranda Maday.