We’ve heard about actors going an extra mile or a whole lunar distance to fit the role of their dreams. But what if their way to stardom requires taking “age is just a number” all too literally?
You see, it turns out that there’s not just one or two actors who have played characters far from their real age. From Gwyneth Paltrow to Amanda Seyfried, some of the cases you see below are truly mind-boggling. Remember Moaning Myrtle from the Harry Potter films? Allegedly, the actress Shirley was 37 years old at the time of filming, which made her the oldest actor to play a teenage student at Hogwarts. If you ask me, I see no reason why defying age shouldn’t count as a magic power.
#1 Shirley Henderson, Who Played Moaning Myrtle In The Harry Potter Films, Was Actually 37 When She Appeared In The Second Film
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#2 Thomas Brodie-Sangster Was Actually 14 When He Played A Kid In Nanny Mcphee
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#3 Amanda Seyfried Was 27 When She Played The Teenage Cosette In Les Misérables
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If you wonder why so many teenage roles are actually played by adult actors, there may be a good reason or two for this. First of all, according to child labor laws, kids can only work for up to a few hours at a time. Meanwhile, movie sets and TV productions will normally spend 10-12 hours a day working on a set.
There is also the issue of schooling that most minors are still required to complete. Plus, minors are more expensive to get insured if their job requires them to do stunts and physical work. Casting slightly older actors may be a workaround for not paying extra costs.
Moreover, the child actor can outgrow the age of their characters as their aging is more noticeable. Think of the ages 13 and 18 and how vast the difference is. And lastly, the great majority of professional actors are twenty and up, so they always already have greater experience and acting skills to compare with teenage and child actors.
#4 Cole Sprouse Is 27 Years Old, But His “Riverdale” Character Jughead Is Meant To Be Just 16
#5 Kit Harington Was 30-Years-Old While Jon Snow Is Supposed To Be 17. In The Books He Was 14
#6 Rachel Mcadams – 25 In Mean Girls As Regina George – 17
For many child actors who start out at a very early age, the sudden fame and intense work load may be debilitating. Macaulay Culkin, who started acting at the age of 4 and got famous for his role as Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone films, has said multiple times how truly hard it all was.
“It started feeling like a chore. I started vocalizing that and not being heard: I was saying, ‘I wanna go to school—I haven’t done a full year of school since first grade,’” he told Esquire in a recent interview.
Culkin’s lifelong struggle with psychological problems also serves as an example that casting a very young actor for a leading role which requires a lot of responsibility may be, in some way, harmful.
#7 Winona Ryder Was 28 When She Played An 18-Year-Old In “Girl, Interrupted” As Susanna Kaysen
#8 Ian Somerhalder Played Damon Salvatore, A Vampire Turned-At-17 When The Actor Was Actually 41-Years-Old
#9 Paul Wesley, The Vampire Diaries. His Character Stefan Salvatore Was 17, Actor 35
#10 Jason Earles Was 29 When He Began Playing Hannah’s Teenage Brother, Jackson, On Hannah Montana
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#11 Roberto Benigni, Pinocchio. The Movie Pinocchio That Was Released In 2002 Starred 49-Year-Old Benigni Playing The Role Of The Young Wooden Boy
#12 Bianca Lawson, Who Played High Schooler Maya, Was 31 When The Pilot For Pretty Little Liars Was Shot
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#13 Laurence Fishburne Was Only 14 When He Played A Soldier In Apocalypse Now
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#14 Olivia Newton-John – 28 In Grease As Sandy Dumbrowski – 17
#15 Audrey Hepburn 32 In Breakfast At Tiffany’s As 18 Year Old
#16 John Franklin, Children Of The Corn. The Role Of The 12-Year-Old Prophet In The Horror Movie Children Of The Corn Became A Debut For John Franklin. By That Time The Actor Had Already Turned 25
#17 Stockard Channing Was 33 When She Played High Schooler Rizzo In Grease
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#18 Jennifer Lawrence Was Only 21 When She Played A Widow In Silver Linings Playbook
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#19 Andrew Garfield Was 31 When The Second Amazing Spider-Man Came Out, Featuring His Character Graduating High School
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#20 Emma Thompson Starred As 19-Year-Old Elinor Dashwood In “Sense And Sensibility” When She Was 35
#21 Sophie Mcshera Plays The Young Kitchen Maid Daisy In “Downton Abbey” While Being 35-Years-Old
#22 Keiko Agena Played A 17-Year-Old Lane In Gilmore Girls While Being 27-Years-Old
#23 Keanu Reeves, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. He Played A 17-Year-Old Schoolboy At The Age Of 25 In The Sci-Fi Comedy Of 1989
#24 Kristen Connolly, The Cabin In The Woods. She Played A 18 Year Old Friend Of The Main Character, Was 31 Years Old At The Time Of Filming
#25 Keira Knightly Was Only 18 When She Played A Bride In Love Actually
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#26 Amy Poehler Was Only 33 When She Played The Mom Of A High School Junior In Mean Girls
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#27 Ashleigh Murray Was 28 When She Began Shooting Riverdale As Teenager Josie
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#28 Julianna Rose Mauriello Was 16 In 2007, When She Finished Playing The 8-Year-Old Stephanie In Lazytown
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#29 Carey Mulligan – 28 In The Great Gatsby As Daisy Buchanan – 18
#30 Leonardo Dicaprio – 28 In Catch Me If You Can As Frank Abignale Jr. – 16
#31 Jennifer Grey – 27 In Dirty Dancing As Frances “Baby” Houseman – 17
#32 Scarlett Johansson Starred In “Lost In Translation” When She Was Just 18 Years Old, Though Her Character Was Meant To Be A College Graduate
#33 Jack Gleeson, 25, As King Joffrey In Got, 17. In The Books He Was Only 13-Years-Old
#34 Denise Richards, Wild Things. Richards Did A Really Good Job Playing A 16-Year-Old Schoolgirl, At The Age Of 27
#35 Verónica Castro, Wild Rose. Played A 17-Year-Old Character In The Cult Soap Opera Of The 1990s. At The Time Of Filming The Actress Of Wild Rose Was 35 Years Old
#36 Sasha Pieterse, Who Played 15-Year-Old Alison, Was 12 When The Pilot For Pretty Little Liars Began Shooting
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#37 Sara Canning Was Only 22 When She Started Playing Aunt Jenna In The Vampire Diaries Pilot, While Nina Dobrev (Who Played Her Niece Elena) Was Only 20 At The Time
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#38 Gwyneth Paltrow Was Only 22 When She Played 32-Year-Old Brad Pitt’s Wife In Se7en
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#39 Sally Field Was 65 Playing A 45-Year-Old When She Was Filming Lincoln
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#40 Jon Heder – 25, Napoleon Dynamite – 16. He Certainly Knew How To Act Like A Teenager
#41 Gabriel Union – 27 In Bring It On As Isis – 17
#42 Gabrielle Carteris – 29 In Beverly Hills, 90210 As Andrea Zuckerman – 16
#43 Michael J. Fox – 29 In Back To The Future As Marty Mcfly – 17
#44 Emilia Clark – 28 In Game Of Thrones As Daenerys Targaryen – 16
#45 Christian Navarro In “13 Reasons Why”. While His Character Is Supposed To Be 18, Navarro Is 28
#46 Emma Stone Was Just 22-Years-Old When She Starred In 2011’s Crazy, Stupid, Love As Hannah. Hannah Was Supposed To Be 26-Years-Old
#47 Nicole Kidman, Flirting. The Actress Was Pretty Far From School Aged. At The Time Of Filming, In 1991, She Had Just Turned 24 Years Old
#48 Mila Kunis Was 14 When She Began Playing Jackie On That ’70s Show
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#49 Sissy Spacek – 27 In Carrie As Carrie White – 17
#50 Tobey Maguire – 27 In Spiderman As Peter Parker – 18
#51 Jim Parsons Is Seven Years Older Than His “The Big Bang Theory” Character, Sheldon Cooper
#52 Rose Mciver, The Lovely Bones. The Actress Who Played The Younger Sister Of The Main Character In The Lovely Bones Thriller Was 21 Years Old At The Time Of Filming
#53 Zelah Clarke, Jane Eyre. At The Time Of The Release Of The Series, The Actress Was 29 Years Old — Obviously Older Than The Young Maid Jane Who Had Recently Graduated From A Boarding House
#54 Linda Hamilton, The Terminator. Sarah Connor Is An Ordinary Student Who’s Working As A Waitress. She Was Played By 28-Year-Old Hamilton
#55 Stacey Dash – 29 In Clueless As Dionne “Dee” Davenport – 17
#56 Alan Ruck – 30 In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off As Cameron Frye – 18
#57 Beyoncé Played Foxxy Cleopatra “Goldmember” When She Was Just 20 Years Old. The Character Foxxy Was Meant To Be At Least In Her Late 20s
#58 Erinn Hayes, 44, Played The Wife Of Kevin James, 55, On The Cbs Sitcom “Kevin Can Wait.”
#59 Ryan Reynolds 29 At That Time In Just Friends As Teenager
#60 Sean Patrick 30 In Save The Last Dance As 19 Year Old
#61 Joe Keery, Stranger Things. The Actor Who Played The Role Of High School Student, Steve Harrington, Had Already Turned 24 When He Started His Work On The Sci-Fi TV Series
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