A few of the current and former child actresses who are at New York Fashion Week right now.


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These recent Throwback Thursday photos from current and former young actresses on Twitter were too cute not to share!

#glamourshots #thanksmom #1993 #tb pic.twitter.com/5XbtYN43zV
- Hilary Duff (@HilaryDuff) April 7, 2016

Happy #TBT...little #BlackGirlMagic #SkaisTheLimit pic.twitter.com/JoWwLfovzU
- Skai Jackson ♛ (@skaijackson) May 5, 2016

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Film: The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011). Young Actress: Sammi Hanratty, age 14.

A girl and her horse, their family farm, and Kris Kristofferson as a gruff grandfather - if you saw Dakota Fanning's Dreamer (2005), then all of this should sound familiar. The two horse movies do have a lot in common, but there's one key difference: Dreamer is an ( Read more... )

If you're a young actress in Hollywood, then odds are that Susan Sarandon has played your mom at some point. Just kidding. But here's a list of Sarandon's most memorable maternal roles, from oldest to most recent, and all the young actresses who've played her daughters.

Pretty Baby (1978), Brooke Shields, 12. Set in 1917 New Orleans, the film ( Read more... )

The portion of Brooke Shields's 2008 Inside the Actors Studio interview where she talks about her most famous (and controversial) childhood role: playing a a child prostitute in the red-light district of 1917 New Orleans, as Violet in Pretty Baby.

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Out of the blue, 2-year-old Sammi Hanratty told her mother she wanted to be on TV. A year went by and she wouldn't let up, so her mother got the name of an agent and set up a meeting. She booked her first job the next day ( Read more... )

A very sweet old news item from 2007 -- a more innocent time, before Miley Cyrus had done a pole dance or dressed like a hooker or taken her shirt off in Vanity Fair. Remember when?

Like most little girls, Brooke Shields's daughter, Rowan Henchy, "is obsessed with Hannah Montana," her mom says. The difference is, this tot actually gets to rub ( Read more... )

A recent article on Brooke Shields and her manager mother, from one of my favorite magazines, The Week:

Brooke Shields can’t escape her mother, says Jancee Dunn in More. She was raised in Manhattan by Teri Shields, a driven, hard-drinking stage mom who pushed her pretty little girl into child modeling and acting. Brooke now believes her mother ( Read more... )

Recent news from the AP wire:

A controversial nude portrait of Brooke Shields taken when she was 10 has been removed from London’s Tate Modern Gallery after police visited the museum, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported.

Richard Prince’s photograph, titled "Spiritual America" -- which is itself of another photograph, taken in 1975 by Garry Gross, with ( Read more... )

Beside the story on Miley Cyrus's Vanity Fair photoshoot in People magazine, this article was featured in a sidebar. Unlike the similar article What It Feels Like for a Girl, this one puts a positive spin on young starlets in provocative situations, arguing that it brings them more attention, more fame, and ultimately, more money. Scroll to the ( Read more... )