Amazing Child Actor Performances of the Past 100 Years

Jodie Foster had a few screen credits before she took on the role of a child prostitute in the searing Martin Scorsese film “Taxi Driver.” The 13-year-old was nominated for an Academy Award and she would go on to win two Best Actress Oscars for “The Accused” and “The Silence of the Lambs.”

Justin Henry got his start in films at age 7 as the child of divorced parents fighting over the custody of him in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, the youngest actor ever nominated. Henry would go on to appear in television series such as “ER.”

Danny Lloyd was 6 years old when Stanley Kubrick chose him to play the psychic son of a father slowly losing his mind and turning into a homicidal maniac in the horror flick “The Shining.” Lloyd’s character is famous for his line “Redrum! Redrum!” Lloyd only has three acting credits in his career.

Ten-year-old Mara Hobel played Christina Crawford, the tormented daughter of actress Joan Crawford in the camp classic “Mommie Dearest.” Critics trashed the film, but not Hobel, who was hailed as the best part of the movie. She has mostly done television work since then, such as “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Roseanne,” and “ABC Afterschool Specials.”

Henry Thomas, 11, played a suburban kid who befriends a marooned alien who wants to return home in “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” Thomas later appeared in the films “Legends of the Fall,” “Gangs of New York,” and various television series.