While the annual Nylon Young Hollywood Party recently took place in Los Angeles, the 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival has been in full swing in southern France. A few adorable child actresses and several grown-up ones are there this year!


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Claire Danes might have missed out on winning Outstanding Lead Actress at the Emmy Awards last weekend, but the former young actress's career is still going strong. On September 24, just a few days after the Emmys, Claire, now 33, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and her TV show Homeland will premiere its highly-anticipated ( Read more... )

Reviews are in for The Beaver - and as we expected, they're fairly dismal. The movie, released at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month, stars Mel Gibson as a troubled executive who decides to communicate solely through a beaver hand-puppet, Jodie Foster (who also directed) as his wife, and Jennifer Lawrence as the brainy cheerleader/ ( Read more... )

Remember when Elle Fanning did a photoshoot as Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon, back in 2009? Well, now her big sister Dakota has had her own chance to channel a former child actress. For a recent spread in W Magazine (who also brought you these amazing pictures), Dakota did a photoshoot as Jodie Foster's teen hooker in Taxi Driver.


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Film: Nim's Island (2008). Young Actress: Abigail Breslin, age 11.

Abigail stars as Nim, a young girl who lives with her scientist dad (Gerard Butler, Machine Gun Preacher) on their own private tropical island in the South Pacific; when her dad goes missing on a research trip, Nim asks for help from her favorite author, Alex Rover (Jodie Foster). ( Read more... )

Beside the article on Corey Haim's death in a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, there was this spread on child stars who survived the perils of growing up in Hollywood to become successful adult stars.

Child stars who made it. Achieving fame at a young age can be confusing -- and even dangerous. But as these young actresses have proved, it can ( Read more... )

The portion of Jodie Foster's 2005 Inside the Actors Studio interview where she talks about the role that changed her career (and her life) and got her her first Oscar nomination: playing a 12-year-old runaway who finds work as a prostitute on the streets of New York City, as Iris in Taxi Driver.

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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... )

An old (March 2008) but very interesting article that analyzes the careers of Dakota Fanning, Abigail Breslin, and AnnaSophia Robb, with former young actress Jodie Foster weighing in on how to morph into a successful adult star. Of course, there's no real need for a "new" Dakota when there's still plenty of talent and potential left in "old" Dakota ( Read more... )