List here your former child actors who didn't go thru all the crazy drama when they turned adult

[LynneSin]

Examples: Jodi Foster, Natalie Portman and Anna Paquin were all very talented Child actors who now have solid careers as adults. None of them had any drama or crazy years of publically documented drinking & drugging. None of them were tabloid fodder for having series of failed relationships. I think all 3 turned out pretty normal and betwen the 3 of them they have 4 Oscars (although Paquin was the only one to get hers as a child).

Basically, none of them did a Lohan.

List here other former child actors who managed to keep their career after they grew out of their child-like cuteness.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. Kurt Russell, Mickey Rooney

[edbermac]

4. MICKEY ROONEY?????? NO CRAZY DRAMA????

Wiki:

Rooney has been married eight times. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was often the subject of comedians' jokes for his alleged inability to stay married. His current marriage, to Jan Chamberlin, has lasted more than 30 years which is longer than his previous seven marriages combined.

In 1942, he married Hollywood starlet Ava Gardner, but the two were divorced well before she became a star in her own right. While stationed in the military in Alabama in 1944, Rooney met and married local beauty queen Betty Jane Phillips. This marriage ended in divorce after he returned from Europe at the end of World War II. His subsequent marriages to Martha Vickers (1949) and Elaine Mahnken (1952) were also short-lived and ended in divorce. In 1958, Rooney married Barbara Ann Thomason, but tragedy struck when she was murdered in 1966. Falling into deep depression, he married Barbara's friend, Marge Lane, who helped him take care of his young children. The marriage lasted only 100 days. He was married to Carolyn Hockett from 1969 to 1974, but financial instability ended the relationship. Finally, in 1978, Rooney married Jan Chamberlin, his eighth wife. As of 2011, they live in Westlake Village, California. Both are outspoken advocates for veterans and animal rights.

After battling drug addiction and a near bankruptcy caused by gambling and bad investments,Rooney became a born-again Christian in the 1970s, after an unusual encounter with a busboy in a casino coffee shop.

[edbermac]

2. Ron Howard

[Swede]

3. Dean Stockwell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Stockwell

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I love him! I think he had some wild times as a young man, but not the crazy drama we

think of with say Lindsay Lohan.

Editing to add, did you know he's an artist now? I had no idea!

[pokerfan]

5. Bill Mumy

Unlike many child actors, Mumy entered the profession at his own insistence, and his parents took pains to make sure he matured properly in his job. His father, who was a cattle rancher, carefully invested his son's income, and thereby avoided problems encountered by other child actors of his period.

He currently lives in Hollywood Hills, California, with his wife, Eileen, and their two child-actor children, Seth and Liliana.

[Skittles]

30. Billy is quite the musician too

yes INDEED :D

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Slight aside...the laws protecting child actors from having their parents

digging into their earnings as they wished is the Coogan act, after Jackie Coogan, notably Uncle Fester on the original "The Addams Family" television show.

[LynneSin]

18. Jackie Coogan was also the young waif child in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid"

[Fire Walk With Me]

42. Wow, didn't know that, haven't yet seen that one.

[woo me with science]

8. Winnie Cooper of "The Wonder Years." - Danica McKellar

Married actress, children's book author, mathematician with a theorem named after her.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Her co-star, Fred Savage, too.

Graduated from Stanford. Married with children. No police record or other scandals to his name.

[woo me with science]

24. Good to know. :) nt

[alphafemale]

33. Isn't he the Producer or something of Sunny in Philadelphia or something? nt

[GoCubsGo]

45. I guess he produced some of the episodes.

He's doing some directing, too. And, then there's the MOLEEEE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxe04wGmTw/

[Auggie]

10. Shirley Temple, of course

[Taverner]

47. She went crazy too - her madness made her a Republican though...

Junkie vs Republican, not sure which is worse...

[Auggie]

11. And (so far) the Harry Potter actors

[geardaddy]

12. Harry Shearer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Shearer

[XemaSab]

13. Lucas Black

Damn, I remember when he was like 10. I feel like a dirty old cougar for being like "RRRRRRROWR."

[alphafemale]

23. Loved P-Jo. Crazy in Alabama.

But just because he reminded me so much of the fire of anger and justice in my own son. They even looked similar.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. George Michael Dolenz

The star of the late-50s TV show "Circus Boy," later a Monkee. Married three times but no tabloid-style divorces. Still performing, still too busy singing to put anybody down.



:toast:

[Rowdyboy]

28. I was far too deeply in the closet to realize it at the time, but Mickey Dolenz was my first crush..

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_11-nzoYFuQU/SAUwc6j_HPI/AAAAAAAACPc/5nMOHe15ONQ/s400/Mickey+Dolenz+Then.jpg

[ohiosmith]

15. Roddy McDowall

[DFW]

16. Lassie

I think?

[rurallib]

17. recently deceased Jackie Cooper

[LynneSin]

19. I'd like to add Drew Barrymore although she did have a Lohan period in her life

Drew's mom was the original wretchedly horrible stage mom - she would allow her daughter to go partying at all the big clubs including Studio 57. I think I read where she started smoking at age 8, drinking soon after and eventually turning to cocaine. She ended up in rehab at age 14-15.

Thing is this, after rehab, Drew pretty much turned her life around and is probably one of the most bankable actresses in Hollywood today. So there is hope for people like Lindsay Lohan but you gotta walk away from the hardcore party life.

[HughBeaumont]

35. And that's why LiLo is going to die before she's 35 . . .

. . . she simply refuses to say "no" to the Los Angeles club/drunk/hard drug scene. Each escapade is worse than the one before it. It's an endless cycle of futility that she will not get off of.

[demmiblue]

20. Wil Wheaton.

:D

[Swede]

21. Neil Patrick Harris

[GoCubsGo]

22. Kirsten Dunst and Reese Witherspoon.

Both starred in films as youngsters. Neither had any real drama while growing up.

[LynneSin]

37. Kirsten Dunst has had a bit of party girl in her

but not on the scale of Lohan

[mysuzuki2]

25. pretty much all the kids on Leave it to Beaver.

Except for the kid who played Gilbert-he had some drug issues I think.

[CreekDog]

36. You meant Whitey, not Gilbert

Whitey died from health issues that seemed to be related to drugs.

Gilbert is actually an accomplished producer and writer, with PBS' Frontline among his work.

[mysuzuki2]

39. I stand corrected.

[PassingFair]

26. A Precious Gift!

SO cool!!!

[Lindsey]

27. Leonardo.He was incredible in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"n/t

[alphafemale]

34. He was on a sitcom as an added shark jump cute kid before that.

That one with Alan Thicke and Banana Boy.

Forget the name at the moment.

[GoCubsGo]

44. "Growing Pains"

Not to be confused with "Family Ties", which also added a shark-jump cute kid.

[susanr516]

40. That was my 1st thought, Leonardo Di Caprio nt

[GoCubsGo]

43. Not a felon, but...

I understand that he DID have issues with drugs for a while. Glad that he overcame them.

[muffin1]

50. Yummy...

:P

[Tabasco_Dave]

29. Kirk Cameron

:hide:If you must, please throw only ripe tomatoes at me. :hide:

[sakabatou]

32. He did go a bit looney when it came to science/reliigon

[Arugula Latte]

41. A BIT loony?

That guy is a full-blown nutter.

[Blasphemer]

46. I'd put his sister Candace on the list... nt

[sarge43]

31. Christopher Walken

[ohiosmith]

38. Ralphie

[WinkyDink]

48. Hayley Mills FTW! Spanky McFarland. Jerry "The Beav" Mathers. Kevin Corcoran. Jon Provost.

[CBGLuthier]

49. William Smith

Conan's Dad. His first role was village boy in The Ghost of Frankenstein.

[flvegan]

51. Mayim Bialik (Blossom), Alfonso Ribierio (sp?), Rick Schroeder

Alyssa Milano, Christina Ricci, Fergie was on Kids Incorporated, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ron Howard