10 Best Performances by a Child Actor/Actress

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Actually, children usually perform very badly and a mediocre performance by a child actor is considered a major feat.[/quote]


Seriously? I'm curious as to how many of the performances mentioned on this thread that you've seen because I find it hard to believe there isn't a single performance by a child that genuinely impressed you.



The Japanese director Koreeda gets brilliantly natural performances from kids in his films. Have a look at Nobody Knows and I Wish. There's another one of his called Like Father Like Son I haven't seen yet that features a couple of youngsters too, that has got good reviews.

The kid I love in a film is the little lad in Kitano's Kikujiro, he's great!



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1. Natalie Portman - Léon The Professional
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4. Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
5. Jodi Foster - Taxi Driver
6. Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
7. Dakota Fanning - I Am Sam
8. Kirsten Dunst - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
9. Adi Stein - Stolen Summer
10. Jonathan Lipnicki - Jerry Maguire
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Couldn't think of 10 but here's a some

1. Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider
2. Tatum O’Neal in Paper Moon
3. Hailee Steinfeld True Grit
4. Lina Leandersson in Let the Right One In
5. Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
6. Ivana Paquero in Pan’s Labryrinth
7. Haley Joel Osment in Sixth Sense
8. Fred Savage in The Boy Who Could Fly
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I'm using fifteen as my cut-off for "child", and I'll name fifteen of my favorites, too...

1. Jean-Pierre Leaud, The 400 Blows (1959 - age fifteen)
2. Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver (1976, age fourteen)
3. Ana Torrent, Spirit of the Beehive (1973 - age seven)
4. Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1971 - age ten)
5. T.J. Lowther, A Perfect World (1993 - age seven)
6. Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit (2010 - age fourteen)
7. Natalie Wood, Miracle on 34th Street (1947 - age nine)
8. Natalie Portman, Léon: The Professional (1994 - age thirteen)
9. Everlyn Sampi, Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002 - age thirteen)
10. Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, Moonrise Kingdom (2012 - ages fourteen and thirteen)
11. Justin Henry, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979 - age eight)
12. Christian Bale, Empire of the Sun (1988 - age thirteen)
13. Sean Nelson, Fresh (1994 - age fourteen)
14. Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine (2006 - age ten)
15. Giuseppe Cristiano, I'm Not Scared (2003 - age twelve)

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In order of movie quality rather than performance. Actors under 18:

1. Taungoroa Emile & Mamaengoroa Kerr-Bell - Once Were Warriors (1994)
2. Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver (1976)
3. Bertil Guve & Pernilla Allwin - Fanny & Alexander (1982)
4. Koki & Oshiro Maeda - I Wish (2011)
5. Aleksei Kravchenko - Come & See (1985)
6. Michalis Zeke & Tania Palaiologu - Landscape in the Mist (1988)
7. Subir Banerjee - Pather Panchali (1955)
8. Jonathan Chang - Yi Yi (2000)
9. Tomio Aoki & Hideo Sugiwara - I Was Born, But ... (1932)
10. Giorgio Cantarini - Life is Beautiful (1997)



1.Edward Norton - Primal Fear
2.Edward Furlong - American History X
3.Danny Lloyd - The Shining
4.Christian Bale - Empire of Sun
5.Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
6.Johnny Depp - A Nightmare on Elm Street
7.Nathalie Portman - Léon
8.Edward Furlong - Terminator 2
9.Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth
10.Kare Hedebrant - Let The Right One In
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