Top 10 British Actors You Forgot Were Child Stars

Top 10 British Actors You Didn't Know Were Child Stars

It seems like these guys have been in the business forever! For this list, we're counting down the British actors that started out as child stars, but their early roles are often forgotten about now. From Felicity Jones to Christian Bale, there are some stellar performances here, from some of the UK's finest acting talents!

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#10. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#9. Jamie Bell
#8. Jack O'Connell
#7. Tom Holland
#6. Aaron Taylor-Johnson
#5. Nicholas Hoult
#4. Freddie Highmore
#3, #2, #1: ???

[jackier]

“Thomas Brodie-Sangster has been in Game of Thrones and had a brief cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Y’all keep forgetting he was in The Maze Runner series!!

[gabrielarredondo]

Freddie Highmore was also in the highly underrated movie, The Spiderwick Chronicles, where he played twin brothers.

[shanasakai]

I think Freddie Highmore is the most memorable for me because I love "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". When I saw him again in "The Good Doctor" I said "Oh, that's the good kid from Charlie!".

[nancyomalley]

I always knew Thomas Brodie was a child star-I also saw him in "The Last Legion" (again) with Colin Firth as Firth was the dad in Nanny McPhee

[willhuey]

thomas brodie sangster was also the voice of ferb in phineas and ferb

[jenscottfreddykrueger]

You forgot that Jamie Bell was in AMC'S Turn!!! That was a really good series.

Freddie Highmore was also in The Spiderwick Chronicles!!!

[immoralq]

I only remember Felicity Jones from Chalet Girl.

[bilza]

You forgot Aaron also played Quicksilver in avengers AOU.

[CashelOConnolly]

Heavenly creatures is a brilliant film

[celticpoet]

Jamie bell was also smoke in a 2002 film of Nickolas Nickleby alongside Charlie Hunnam and Christopher Plummer.

[Iri-bj]

The maze runner guy at 10 is a good actor

[Nimmo]

Every British actor has either been in Casualty, The Bill, or both.

[kathiravanganesh]

Freddie is good at Bates motel and good doctor so Bollywood give him some movie roles

[alexanderespinoza]

I saw Cristian Bale on the thumbnail thinking wtf I didn't know he was a child actor OR British!

[bellasalceies]

I think I spotted Sam Raimi from Death Machine here at 5:12!

[narutohokage]

Oh fuck, Felicity Jones was in the worst witch. Why couldn't I remember that?!

[thwilbury]

I'm gonna be banished to a pit in IMDB hell, as a few of these people I ONLY know from their roles as kids. For half of them, you could have called this "British Child Stars You Didn't Know Got Work As Adults." 'Tis what I get for not watching the various comic book movies or other sci-fi/fantasy stuff. The last two were pleasant surprises for me... I only know them from their later roles.

Cool vid!

[RockismyAir]

Freddie Highmore was fucking everywhere at that time.
Like Eddie Redmayne is now.

[hanniffydinn]

Come on, we all know these...but lets look at child actors now on tv to see if we can spot the future stars

[KitanKate]

i know most of these from their childhood films lol, im old :)