Amazing Child Actor Performances of the Past 100 Years

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Jacob Tremblay
> Role: Jack
> Movie: “Room” (2015)
> Director: Lenny Abrahamson

Jacob Tremblay’s breakout role was in “The Room,” about a mother and her son who experience freedom after being held captive for seven years. Tremblay won a slew of breakthrough and newcomer awards. The 15-year-old Canadian actor has already built a career on playing on kids in danger, in films such as “Before I Wake,” “Shut In,” and “The Predator.”

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Alex Hibbert
> Role: Little
> Movie: “Moonlight” (2016)
> Director: Barry Jenkins

Alex Hibbert is an actor, known for playing Little in the Oscar-winning film “Moonlight,” which dealt with issues of sexuality and identity in African-American culture. Hibbert also has appeared in the action blockbuster “Black Panther” and in “The Chi.”

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Seo-hyun Ahn
> Role: Mija
> Movie: “Okja” (2017)
> Director: Bong Joon Ho

Thirteen-year-old South Korean actress Seo-hyun Ahn starred in “Okja,” about a girl who will do anything to stop a corporation from abducting her best friend, a large beast. The film was directed by Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho and starred Oscar winner Tilda Swinton. Ahn also appeared in the movies “The Housemaid” and “The Yellow Sea.”