Child Actors Who Returned With Iconic Roles After Taking An Acting Break

Seeing dead people, becoming a neuroscientist, and foiling burglars can be exhausting - turns out some child stars just need a break!

#Actors #MayimBialik #Iconic

Anna Chlumsky | 0:00
Mayim Bialik | 1:29
Macauley Culkin | 2:54
Kieran Culkin | 4:08
Brooke Shields | 5:18
Haley Joel Osment | 6:35
Andrea Barber | 7:55
Cole Sprouse | 9:07
Diane Lane | 10:32
Gaby Hoffmann | 11:43
Alicia Goranson | 13:00
Thora Birch | 14:15
Mackenzie Phillips | 15:40

[Looper]

Which actor or actress do you feel had the biggest comeback?

[davy]

There’s Anna Paquin who won an Oscar at 11, starred in a bunch of movies as a kid, took a break and later played Rogue in X-Men and Sookie in True Blood as an adult.

[carlfromtheoc]

You forgot RON HOWARD! Remember him? As a small kid played Opie on the Andy Griffith Show, then he was not seen for a bit, then came back in a little series called Happy Days. After that he got into directing and producing.

[karenshort]

You forgot Jody Foster. She was child Star in Taxi and Paper Moon, and she been acting since 1969. Before she quit to go to college. Then she got role in a B Movie. That she got famous again. The movie was The Accused.

[nestorsegoviajr.]

You forgot Jonathan Ke Huy Quan (Short Round from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom") who recently starred in "Everything Everywhere All At Once".

[mattiestmatthew]

Micky Dolenz. He was on Circus Boy, then took a break for several years and eventually returned in The Monkees. The rest is history.

[lindildeev]

I wish somebody did a sequel to Home Alone : Lost in New York with Macauley as an adult Kevin whose son is left home while a group of thieves is around. The little boy will discover the secret of his dad and defend the house and he will meet two old bandits who know a lot about him.

[wayneturner]

Forgot: Christian Bale - Empire Of The Sun. Returning as an adult in: American Psycho

[OscarMPG]

Where is Jodie Foster? Christian Bale? Neil Patrick Harris? Sean Astin? Sarah Jessica Parker? Joseph Gordon Leavitt?

[Hunglikeagrimsmo]

I remember watching Mayim Bialik when I was a kid and thinking she was cute but now she's gorgeous 😍

[napoliansolo]

As Brooke Shield once said in a movie- "it's Shield! Not Shields, there isn't two of me." Loved her in Wanda Nevada.

[willn]

Haley Joel Osment also played a small part in The Boys.

[psgamer-]

Didn't know Thora Birch will be on Wednesday. Cool!

[COMPFUNK]

Thora Birch also starred in All I Want for Christmas. That film got negative reviews but it was never explained quite why; personally, I think the reason is because the film gave kids unrealistic expectations (all she wanted for Christmas was for her divorced parents to marry each other again).

[mervyngreene]

You missed Bialik's first big break. She played the Bette Middler's as a child in "Beaches " That (allegedly) led to "Blossom "

[jchacho]

How is Niel Patrick Harris not on this list?

[amandarose]

Why you do Ke Huy Quan like that, he was a Goonie for gods sake.

[Doublemg]

Had no idea Anna was in Uncle Buck. Neat!

[righty-o]

Second Hand Lions is such a good movie 😁🤘

[Whisper_]

You guys should make a second list, because so many people were missing.

Leaving Jody Foster off is a crime. Not to mention Anna Paquin, Christina Ricci, Wil Wheaton, Joachim Phoenix--you get the idea.