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22 mars 2024 · Child Actors Who Tragically Died Young. Celebrity Lists. Updated March 22, 2024 39.3M views 35 items. The stories of child actors who died young often carry a poignant resonance that lingers in Hollywood's legacy. These young talents, brimming with potential and often on the cusp of promising careers, met with tragic circumstances ...
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- Gary Coleman
- Corey Haim
- Judith Barsi
- Michelle Thomas
- Matthew Garber
- Sawyer Sweeten
- Dana Plato
- Lee Thompson Young
- Rob Knox
So much misfortune surrounds classic horror movie Poltergeist that many have declared the film and its sequels to be cursed. Most notably, both the young actresses who portrayed the children of the Freeling family died soon thereafter. First, 22-year old Dana actress Dominique Donne was murdered in 1982; then even more infamously Carol Anne actress...
American actor Gary Coleman was ten years old when he shot to fame as the adorable Arnold in sitcom Diff’rent Strokes. Famed for his diminutive stature, many assumed the young actor was simply a late bloomer, but the truth was not so simple. Coleman suffered from a congenital kidney disorder, and as a side effect he kept his 4’8″ stature and childl...
Born 23rd December 1971, Corey Haim became one of the most popular actors of his generation in the late 1980s. He co-starred in a series of films with his namesake Corey Feldman (including The Lost Boys), and the two became firm friends and a popular double act. Unfortunately, as well as sharing fame, the two Coreys also shared a variety of childho...
A prolific child actor of the 80s, Judith Barsi’s death is without a doubt one of the most awful cases on this list. Born in June 1978, Barsi began taking small film and TV roles by the time she was six. Soon enough she was earning an estimated $100,000 a year, money which her parents came to depend on. Her father József Barsi was an abusive alcoho...
Born September 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, Michelle Thomas got into acting in her early teens, beginning with a 1983 TV commercial. She eventually worked her way up to taking supporting roles in two of the biggest sitcoms of the era: The Cosby Showand Family Matters. By the late 90s Thomas was a regular guest host on TV music show Soul Train, an...
Matthew Garber has long been synonymous with his role as Michael Banks in beloved family classic Mary Poppins. Born in Stepney, London in 1956, Garber was just eight years old when he appeared alongside Julie Andrews in the Disney production. It was only his second film role after 1963’s The Three Lives of Thomasina; and he would take only one more...
Sawyer Sweeten was born on 12th May 1995, alongside his twin brother Sullivan, in Brownwood, Texas. When the twins were six months old, the Sweeten family moved to Los Angeles, and the boys were soon sent out for child acting work. They got their first roles playing the twin sons of Ray Romano’s title character in sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, wh...
Gary Coleman was sadly not the only young star of Diff’rent Strokes to go through serious hardship, and meet an early death. The same was also true of actress Dana Plato, who played Coleman’s adoptive sister Kimberly Drummond. Plato was 13 years old and had been acting for a few years when she was cast in the sitcom. Even in the early days of Diff’...
Lee Thompson Young was born in Columbia, South Carolina in February 1984, and began pursuing acting aged 10. The young actor got his big break in 1998, when he was cast in the title role of Disney Channel series The Famous Jett Jackson. Young played Jett Jackson in three seasons and a TV movie, as well as appearing in another Disney Channel movie, ...
English actor Rob Knox was born in Kent in 1989, and had made a few brief film and TV appearances before getting what should have been his big break. Knox landed the role of Hogwarts student Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the popular fantasy series. Although the character of Marcus did not appear in final ...
24 juil. 2023 · Using news articles, interviews, and documentaries, among various other sources, Stacker assembled a list of 23 child actors who died young. Read on to see which stars didn't live to see 50.
This is a list of former child actors and teen actors from the United States. These notable actors were age 17 or younger at the time they started acting, but are currently 18, older, or are deceased. Contents: Top. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. A. Lee Aaker (1943–2021) Ava Acres (born 2004)
9 nov. 2023 · Gary Coleman wasn't the only child star of "Diff'rent Strokes" to die young: In 1999, the Los Angeles Times reported on the death of 34-year-old Dana Plato. She made her first on-screen appearance at 6 years old and found fame in the sitcom at 13 years old, but after her time on the show ended, she struggled.
1. Anissa Jones. Actress | To Rome with Love. Anissa Jones was an American child actress of Lebanese descent. She is primarily remembered for the role of the orphan girl Buffy Davis in the hit sitcom "Family Affair" (1966-1971). The series lasted for 5 seasons and 138 episodes. Jones' career rapidly declined following the end of the sitcom. ... 2.
6 nov. 2023 · By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN. 2 minute read. Published 4:56 PM EST, Mon November 6, 2023. Link Copied! Evan Ellingson at a 2008 event in Los Angeles. Kevin Winter/Getty Images. CNN — Evan Ellingson, a...
