My Awards - Best Child Acting per Year
by morales_gus | created - 04 Jul 2017 | updated - 6 months ago | PublicMacaulay Culkin 3/5 Christina Ricci 2/3 Haley Joel Osment 2/3 Cameron Bright 1/2 Emma Watson 1/3
1. Avery Tiiu Essex
Actress | You Should Have Left
Avery Tiiu Essex is an American actress born on August 27, 2011. She began her career at the age of 6 when she landed a spate of nationally aired commercials. In 2019 she appeared in a co-staring role on the hit-television show Modern Family, playing young Claire Dunphy. Her role as Ella, opposite ...
? 2020 for You Should Have Left (~8 years old)
2. Lexi Rabe
Actress | Avengers: Endgame
Lexi Rabe was born on June 15, 2012 in the USA. She is an actress, known for Avengers: Endgame (2019), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Silk Road (2021).
2019 for Avengers: Endgame
Others:
Julia Butters for Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood (9 years old)
Roman Griffin Davis for Jojo Rabbit (11 years old)
3. Millicent Simmonds
Actress | A Quiet Place
Millicent (Millie) Simmonds is a BAFTA nominated American actress from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania best known for Wonderstruck (2017), A Quiet Place (2018), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), and Helen & Teacher. Millicent made her Broadway debut in 2023 starring opposite Laurie Metcalf in Levi Holloway's ...
2018 for A Quiet Place (~14 years old)
Others:
Darby Camp for The Christmas Chronicles (~11 years old)
Isabella Sermon for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (~11 years old)
Noah Jupe for A Quiet Place (~12 years old)
4. Dafne Keen
Actress | Logan
Dafne Keen Fernández is a British and Spanish actress who played the role of the mutant Laura Kinney / X-23 in Logan (2017) and Lyra in the HBO series His Dark Materials (2019).
She is the daughter of British actor Will Keen, and Spanish actress, theatre director and writer María Fernández Ache.
Keen...
2017 for Logan (~11 years old)
Others:
Sophia Lillis for It (14 years old)
Jaeden Lieberher for It (13 years old)
Jack Dylan Grazer for It (13 years old)
Jackson Robert Scott for It (~8 years old)
Finn Wolfhard for It (13 years old)
5. Jacob Tremblay
Actor | Room
Jacob Tremblay is a Canadian actor. He made his film debut as Blue in the live action animated film The Smurfs 2 (2013). His breakout performance was in the dark drama Room (2015), for which he received critical acclaim. In 2016, Tremblay played a supporting role in the comedy film Donald Trump's ...
2015 for Room (8 years old)
Harvey Scrimshaw for The VVitch (13 years old)
6. Mackenzie Foy
Actress | Interstellar
Mackenzie Christine Foy was born 10 November 2000. She began her career as a child model in 2004, working for Garnet Hill, Polo Ralph Lauren, and Guess Kids. She has also modelled in print ads for companies such as Rubbermaid, Jones Apparel Group, The Walt Disney Company, Mattel, Target Corporation...
2014 for Interstellar (13 years old)
Others:
Elle Fanning for Maleficent (14 years old)
7. Mana Ashida
Actress | Pacific Rim
When Mana was 3, her mom thought her becoming an actress would be fun & guided her into the vocation. Her 1st role came in 2009. She was in the TV show Mother on Nippon Television Network Corporation in 2010. The director was looking for a 7-year-old & was reluctant to audition a 5-year old, but ...
2013 for Pacific Rim (7 years old)
8. Kara Hayward
Actress | Moonrise Kingdom
Kara Hayward was born on November 17, 1998 in Massachusetts. She was discovered at an open call, landing her first movie role in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and received critical acclaim and numerous award nominations for her performance as Suzy Bishop. At this point, she was 12 years ...
2012 for Moonrise Kingdom (12 years old)
Others:
Amandla Stenberg for Hunger Games (12 years old)
Jared Gilman for Moonrise Kingdom (12 years old)
Gabriel Rush for Moonrise Kingdom (13 years old)
Lucas Hedges for Moonrise Kingdom (14 years old)
9. Elle Fanning
Actress | Super 8
Mary Elle Fanning was born on the 9th of April 1998 in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven J. Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and Channel ...
2011 for Super 8 (12 years old) and We Bought a Zoo (12 years old)
10. Chloë Grace Moretz
Actress | Kick-Ass
Moretz is best known for her work in the sci-fi thriller series The Peripheral, created by Scott B. Smith; the Mattson Tomlin-directed sci-fi thriller Mother/Android; Neil Jordan's thriller Greta; Roseanne Liang's Shadow in the Cloud, which claimed the Midnight Madness People's Choice Award at the ...
2010 for Let Me In (12 years old)
Others:
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit (13 years old)
11. Dakota Fanning
Actress | War of the Worlds
Hannah Dakota Fanning was born on the 23rd of February 1994, in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and ...
2009 for Push (13 years old)
Others:
Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Road
Abigail Breslin for Zombieland (~13 years old)
12. Ashlyn Sanchez
Actress | Crash
Ashlyn Sanchez was born on July 27, 1996 in California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Crash (2004), The Happening (2008) and Universal Signs (2008). She is married to Gabe Romero.
2008 for The Happening (11 years old)
13. AnnaSophia Robb
Actress | Bridge to Terabithia
Actress AnnaSophia Robb most recently starred in two of Hulu's most critically acclaimed limited series. In 2019, she co-starred opposite Patricia Arquette in THE ACT. This spring, she portrayed the flashback version of Reese Witherspoon's "Elena Richardson" character in LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, ...
2007 for Bridge to Terabithia (12 years old)
14. Ko Ah-sung
Actress | Snowpiercer
Ko Ah-sung was born on August 10, 1992 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Snowpiercer (2013), The Host (2006) and Heard It Through the Grapevine (2015).
2006 for The Host (13 years old)
Others:
Cameron Bright for Ultraviolet (11 years old)
Jodelle Ferland for Silent Hill(10 years old)
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine (9 years old)
Tyler James Williams for Unaccompanied Minors (13 years old)
Gia Mantegna for Unaccompanied Minors (15 years old)
Dyllan Christopher for Unaccompanied Minors (14 years old)
Quinn Shephard for Unaccompanied Minors (11 years old)
15. Emma Watson
Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...
2005 for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (14 years old)
Others:
Daniel Radcliffe for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (15 years old)
Dakota Fanning for War of the Worlds (11 years old)
16. Cameron Bright
Actor | Thank You for Smoking
Cameron was born in Victoria, British Columbia, on January 26, 1993. He resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the age of 6, he was filming his first commercial. In 2002, at only 9 years of age, he worked in his first lead role in the movie Godsend (2004), alongside Academy award-winner Robert ...
2004 for Birth (10 years old)
Others:
Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (13 years old)
Daniel Radcliffe for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (14 years old)
Rupert Grint for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (15 years old)
17. Douglas Silva
Actor | Cidade de Deus
Douglas Silva was born in 1988 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is an actor and producer, known for City of God (2002), Blindness (2008) and City of Men (2002). He has been married to Carolina Brito Samarão since November 2008. They have one child.
2002 for City of God (13 years old)
Others:
Rory Culkin for Signs (12 years old)
Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (12 years old)
Rupert Grint for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (13 years old)
Tom Felton for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (14 years old)
Daniel Radcliffe for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (12 years old)
Abigail Breslin for Signs (5 years old)
18. Alakina Mann
Actress | The Others
Alakina Mann was born on August 1, 1990 in Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Others (2001), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and Fungus the Bogeyman (2004).
2001 for The Others (10 years old)
Others:
Haley Joel Osment for Artificial Intelligence: AI (12 years old)
James Bentley for The Others (8 years old)
Trevor Morgan for Jurassic Park III (14 years old)
Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (10 years old)
19. Haley Joel Osment
Actor | The Sixth Sense
Haley Joel Osment is an American actor who has proven himself as one of the best young actors of his generation. He is the first millennial male to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting.
Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, to Theresa (Seifert), a teacher, and actor Eugene ...
2000 for Pay It Forward (11 years old)
20. Haley Joel Osment
Actor | The Sixth Sense
Haley Joel Osment is an American actor who has proven himself as one of the best young actors of his generation. He is the first millennial male to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting.
Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, to Theresa (Seifert), a teacher, and actor Eugene ...
1999 for The Sixth Sense (10 years old)
Others:
Michelle Trachtenberg for Inspector Gadget (12 years old)
21. Lindsay Lohan
Actress | The Parent Trap
Lindsay Dee Lohan was born in New York City, on 2 July 1986, to Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan. She began her career at age three as a Ford model, and also made appearances in over sixty television commercials, including spots for The Gap, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, and Jell-O (opposite Bill Cosby). Lohan ...
1998 for The Parent Trap (11 years old)
Others:
Miko Hughes for Mercury Rising (11 years old)
22. Jena Malone
Actress | The Neon Demon
Jena Malone was born in Reno, Nevada, raised in Sparks, Nevada; two cities that have merged together over time, to Deborah Malone and Edward Berge. Her grandfather owned a casino, Karl's Silver Club, in Reno. She was raised by her mother and her mother's partner. Beginning as a child actress, and ...
1997 for Contact
23. Mara Wilson
Actress | Matilda
Mara Elizabeth Wilson was born on Friday, July 24th, 1987 in Los Angeles, California. She is the oldest daughter of Michael and Suzie Wilson, with three elder brothers - Danny (b. 1979), Jon (b. 1981) and Joel (b. 1983) - and a younger sister Anna (b. 1993). When Mara was 5 years old, her eldest ...
1996 for Matilda (8 years old)
Others:
Brock Pierce for First Kid (14 years old)
Jonathan Lipnicki for Jerry Maguire (5 years old)
24. Christina Ricci
Actress | Casper
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...
1995 for Casper (14 years old)
Others:
Mary-Kate Olsen for It Takes Two (9 years old)
Ashley Olsen for It Takes Two (9 years old)
Elisabeth Moss for Escape to Witch Mountain (12 years old)
Erik von Detten for Escape to Witch Mountain (12 years old)
25. Kirsten Dunst
Actress | Spider-Man
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...
1994 for Interview with the Vampire (11 years old)
Others:
Natalie Portman for The Professional (12 years old)
Macaulay Culkin for Ri¢hie Ri¢h (13 years old)
Melody Kay for Camp Nowhere (12 years old)
Jonathan Jackson for Camp Nowhere (11 years old)
Marnette Patterson for Camp Nowhere (13 years old)
26. Macaulay Culkin
Actor | Home Alone
Macaulay Culkin, one of the most famous American child stars, was born on August 26, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA, as the third of seven children of his father Kit Culkin (a former stage and child actor and also Macaulay's former manager) and mother Patricia Brentrup. He is the brother of ...
1993 for The Good Son (12 years old)
Others:
Christina Ricci for The Addams Family II (13 years old)
Ariana Richards for Jurassic Park (13 years old)
Joseph Mazzello for Jurassic Park (9 years old)
Elijah Wood for The Good Son (12 years old)
Thora Birch for Hocus Pocus (11 years old)
27. Macaulay Culkin
Actor | Home Alone
Macaulay Culkin, one of the most famous American child stars, was born on August 26, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA, as the third of seven children of his father Kit Culkin (a former stage and child actor and also Macaulay's former manager) and mother Patricia Brentrup. He is the brother of ...
1992 for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (11 years old)
Others:
Thora Birch for Patriot Games (9 years old)
Nicholle Tom for Beethoven (14 years old)
Christopher Castile for Beethoven (12 years old)
Sarah Rose Karr for Beethoven (8 years old)
28. Christina Ricci
Actress | Casper
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...
1991 for The Addams Family (11 years old)
Others:
Anna Chlumsky for My Girl (10 years old)
Macaulay Culkin for My Girl (10 years old)
Edward Furlong for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (13 years old)
Ivyann Schwan for Problem Child 2 (7 years old)
Michael Oliver for Problem Child 2 (9 years old)
29. Macaulay Culkin
Actor | Home Alone
Macaulay Culkin, one of the most famous American child stars, was born on August 26, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA, as the third of seven children of his father Kit Culkin (a former stage and child actor and also Macaulay's former manager) and mother Patricia Brentrup. He is the brother of ...
1990 for Home Alone (9 years old)
Others:
Sage Stallone for Rocky V (13 years old)
Michael Oliver for Problem Child (8 years old)
Sarah Rose Karr for Kindergarten Cop (5 years old)
30. Jenny Lewis
Actress | The Wizard
Jenny Lewis was born on January 8, 1976, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her acting debut was in a Jell-O commercial. During the mid-1980s, her parents divorced and she moved with her mom, Linda, to Los Angeles, California. In 1999, she gathered a couple of her friends, Blake Soper, Pierre de Reeder, and ...
1989 for The Wizard (13 years old)
Others:
Fred Savage for The Wizard (12 years old)
Luke Edwards for The Wizard (9 years old)
31. David Mendenhall
Actor | God Bless America
David Mendenhall's career began at the age of four, when he appeared in a commercial for Mattel Toys. By the time he reached his teens his appearances included more than 150 commercials for both television and radio, plus roles on such television shows as "Our House" (two seasons), "Taxi" (two ...
1987 for Over the Top (15 years old)
32. Wil Wheaton
Actor | Stand by Me
Wil Wheaton was born Richard William Wheaton III on July 29, 1972 in Burbank, California. He first gained international attention by starring in the Rob Reiner comedy-drama film Stand by Me (1986). He then played Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) for ...
1986 for Stand by Me (13 years old)
Others:
River Phoenix for Stand by Me (14 years old)
Jennifer Connely for Labyrinth (14 years old)
Jerry O'Connell for Stand by Me (14 years old)
Corey Feldman for Stand by Me (11 years old)
Carrie Henn for Aliens (9 years old)
33. Jeff Cohen
Actor | The Goonies
Jeff Cohen was born on June 25, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a legal representative and actor.
1985 for The Goonies (10 years old)
Others:
Corey Feldman for The Goonies (14 years old)
Sean Austin for The Goonies (14 years old)
Jonathan Ke Quan for The Goonies (12 years old)
34. Anthony Michael Hall
Actor | War Machine
Anthony Michael Hall was born in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. His parents are Mercedes Hall, an actress-blues and jazz singer, and Larry Hall, who owned an auto body shop. His stepfather is a show-business manager. His sister, Mary Christian, is also a performer. He has Irish and Italian ancestry. ...
1984 for Sixteen Candles (15 years old)
Others:
Molly Ringwald for Sixteen Candles (15 years old)
Jonathan Ke Quan for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (12 years old)
35. Henry Thomas
Actor | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had a lead role in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in films ...
1982 for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (10 years old)
36. Danny Lloyd
Actor | The Shining
Danny Lloyd was selected for the role of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) because of his ability to concentrate for extended periods of time. Because of his age (6) and the genre of The Shining (1980) Danny was closely guarded by Kubrick during filming and didn't know it was a...
1980 for The Shining
37. Ricky Schroder
Actor | Black Cloud
He was born Richard Bartlett Schroder, Jr., in Staten Island, New York on April 13th, 1970. His mother, Diane Schroder was an employee at AT&T, which is also the same company that employed his father, Richard Bartlett Schroder, Sr.
Eventually working his way up to management from being a telephone ...
1979 for The Champ (8 years old)
38. Jodie Foster
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...
1976 for Taxi Driver (12 years old)
39. Peter Ostrum
Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Peter Ostrum was born on November 1, 1957 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Sicko (2007) and Remembering Gene Wilder (2023). He has been married to Loretta Lepkowski since 1987. They have two children.
1971 for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (13 years old)
40. Mary Badham
Actress | To Kill a Mockingbird
Mary Badham was born on October 7, 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Let's Kill Uncle (1966) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She has been married to Richard Wilt since 1975. They have two children.
1962 for To Kill a Mockinbird (9 years old)
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