11 Adult Actors Who Played Teenage Roles

The talent of some actors is surprising, and Hollywood stars are always showing their professionalism. After all, how else would it be possible to explain the fact that many celebrities, once adults, are able to convince the public by playing teenage roles? When the job is done well, the age difference isn’t even noticed.

O awesome.club will reveal below the real age that some actors and actresses were when giving life to characters who had not yet reached adulthood.

Jason Earles must know the secret of eternal youth. Otherwise, how to explain the fact that in the series “Hannah Montana” he played the brother of the main character, Jackson Stewart, 15 years old, when the actor was, in reality, 30? At the time of recording, Earles was already a married man with children.

The biggest thief of teenage hearts in the early 2000s was Tom Welling, who played Superman as a teenager. The series “Smallville: The Adventures of Superboy” shows the school years of the character. Except that Tom was 10 years older than the young man he played, and, at that time, he was already 1.90 m tall!

In the psychological thriller “Girl, Interrupted”, Leto played Toby, the protagonist’s boyfriend. In the story, he had finished high school and was preparing to enter university. However, during the production of the feature, he was already 27 years old.

In the movie “Princess of Beverly Hills”, the role of student Dionne Davenport was played by Stacey Dash. But as a teenager she had nothing: the actress had already turned 28. The film was so successful that the producers launched a series in which Stacey continued to play the same character until she was 33.

In the series “Pretty Little Liars”, Bianca played Maya St. Germain, a 17-year-old schoolgirl. We found out that at the time of filming, she was 31 years old. The actress participated in the plot until the second season, and left the cast when she was 33. Bianca, tell us what her secret is!

Another actor who played the role of a teenager as an adult was Matthew Broderick. He was very successful playing Ferris Bueller, a high school student who was 18 years old. And his friend Cameron Frye was played by Alan Ruck, who was 29 years old during filming.

Barbra Streisand starred in the movie “Yentl” at the age of 41. Her character, the young Jewish woman Yentl, was only 17 years old according to the script. In order to gain access to education, she disguises herself as a man and manages to enter the university. Barbra did a great job, which earned her no less than 5 Oscar nominations.

Sissy Spacek was 26 years old when she played the role of high school student Carrie White in the horror film inspired by Stephen King’s novel of the same name. In 2013, a remake of this feature was released, this time with Chloë Grace Moretz in the lead role. The actress, in this case, was several years younger than the character.

At the time of recording the series “Friday Night Lights”, Taylor Kitsch was 27 years old. As for his character, high school football player Tim Riggins was just 14.

Andrew Garfield surpassed Tobey Maguire and played a 17-year-old Peter Parker, when the actor was already 27. In fact, Andrew dreamed of playing the character since he was 3 years old, when he first wore a Spider-Man costume.

Emily Kinney became world famous with the role of Beth Greene, 15 years old, in the series “The Walking Dead”, in which the actress participated between the second and fifth seasons. The character died when she was a teenager, but Kinney was already 29 at the time.

Do you think adult actors are convincing when playing teenage characters? Or do you believe that directors should choose artists the same age as the people portrayed?