Child actor
Macaulay Culkin and Lindsay Lohan are two particularly famous child actors who eventually experienced much difficulty with the fame they acquired at an early age.
Some child actors have successful acting careers as adults; for example Mickey Rooney, Tim Matheson, Drew Barrymore, Shia LaBeouf, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mila Kunis, and Molly Ringwald.
Other child actors have gone on to successful careers in other fields, including director Ron Howard, politicians Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński, and singer Jenny Lewis.
Longer work hours or risky stunts prohibited by California, for example, might be permitted to a project filming in British Columbia.
Due to the large presence of the entertainment industry in Hollywood, the state of California has some of the most explicit laws protecting child actors.
In 1939, California weighed in on this controversy and enacted the Coogan Bill, which requires a portion of the earnings of a child to be preserved in a special savings account called a blocked trust.
also criticize the parents of child actors for allowing their children to work, believing that more "normal" activities should be the staple during the childhood years.
[citation needed] Ethel Merman, who several times worked in long-running stage productions with child actors, disliked what she eventually saw as their over-professionalization—"acting more like midgets than children"—and disapproved of parents pushing adulthood on them.
A child prodigy, Foster received her first Academy Award nomination at age 13 and later took a sabbatical from films to attend Yale University.
Her performance earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination at age 8 in 2002, making her the youngest nominee in SAG history.
After both projects ended, Raven would star in Revenge of the Bridesmaids, the short-lived State of Georgia and had a long running voiceover gig as Iridessa in the Tinker Bell series but after her run on Broadway's Sister Act in 2012, she briefly retired and enrolled at the Academy of Art University earning her degree in fine arts and later returned to the industry to become a co host on The View and returned to the Disney Channel for the spinoff Raven's Home.
The twins eventually retired from acting to pursue a full-time career in the fashion industry, which, to this day, is continuously successful with an estimated net worth of approximately $100,000,000.
Natalie Portman took a small break in acting to get a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard University before continuing her career as an actress.
Rider Strong, known as "Shawn Hunter" in Boy Meets World, was educated at Columbia University and now runs a successful blog and has published a graphic novel.
Peter Ostrum, appearing in his only role, the lead character of Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, became a large-scale veterinarian surgeon.
