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Child Actors Who Won Oscars as Adults
Posted: March 15th, 2023, 1:24 am
by Oneeyeopen
With the recent Oscar winner, Ke Huy Chan, is the most recent child actor, to win an Oscar as an adult. There is a small list of child actors who achieved this high honor in the acting category. This list is only if they were in films as a child actor, then achieved an Academy Award as an adult, not as a child like Patty Duke, Tatum O'Neal and Anna Paquin.
Elizabeth Taylor
Jodie Foster
Natalie Portman
Please feel free to add others...
Re: Child Actors Who Won Oscars as Adults
Posted: March 15th, 2023, 8:54 am
by Detective Jim McLeod
I can't think of any more winners but here are a couple who were nominated and I think should have won-
Natalie Wood
Jackie Earle Haley
Re: Child Actors Who Won Oscars as Adults
Posted: March 15th, 2023, 9:13 am
by txfilmfan
Depends on how you define child and child actor. Numerous stars got their first roles as teenagers. But here are a few others:
Helen Hunt
Jeff Bridges
Natalie Portman
Leonardo DiCaprio
Regina King (got her start on the sitcom 227)
Laura Dern
Joaquin Phoenix
Re: Child Actors Who Won Oscars as Adults
Posted: March 15th, 2023, 5:00 pm
by Dargo
And then, and sure even though one could say an Oscar was "awarded" to him and that he didn't "win" it competitively, you have Mickey Rooney holding his Oscar at age 62 after receiving it during the 1982 ceremony.