Young Actress Movies to Watch in 2017!
Happy New Year! Here are a few notable young actress films that will be released this year:
Split, Anya Taylor Joy, January 20. After dazzling us all with her debut performance in The VVitch, Anya, now 20, is back in this thriller about three young girls who are kidnapped by a man with 24 different personalities (James McAvoy, X-Men). Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (Signs), Split also stars Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson, who just played Hailee's best friend role in Edge of Seventeen.
Anya in Split
Logan, Dafne Keene, March 3. This dark, gritty latest installment of the X-Men franchise stars newcomer Dafne as young female mutant clone of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). A dramatic role with a lot of screentime in a big-budget superhero movie is likely going to make Dafne very famous very fast. She currently has only one other credited acting role, and I hope that she and her family are prepared for how much her life is probably about to change. Best wishes to her.
Dafne in Logan
Beauty and the Beast, Emma Watson, March 17. Of course I had to include this one on the list. It seems like everyone has been waiting to see Emma bring to life one of Disney's most beloved princesses, brainy beautiful Belle, in the studio's latest real-life fairy tale (see previously, Cinderella and Maleficent). Emma's adult drama The Circle, with Tom Hanks, is due out on April 28. She recently decided to take a break from acting and has no other upcoming projects.
Emma in Beauty and the Beast
Wonder, Izabela Vidovic, April 7. In this heart-warming family drama, young actor Jacob Tremblay plays a boy with facial deformities trying to fit in at a new school. It's Jacob's biggest role since his child-star-making performance in Room, and a number of young actresses have supporting roles as his classmates, including Jacob's real-life sister Emma Tremblay (The Giver). Izabela, as Jacob's sister, will likely have the most screentime.
Jacob Tremblay and Julia Roberts ( August: Osage County) in Wonder
November Criminals, Chloe Moretz, April 7. Chloe stars alongside young actor Ansel Elgort ( Divergent) in this thriller about a Washington DC teenager who investigates the death of a friend's mother. Chloe and Ansel have previously presented together at the 2015 Oscars and worked together in Carrie. Chloe has two other films tentatively set for 2017, The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Suspiria, that she had already mostly completed when she decided to take a break from acting.
Chloe and Ansel at the Teen Vogue 10th Anniversary Party, February 2013
The Beguiled, Elle Fanning, July 30. Former child actress Kirsten Dunst stars with Elle, Addison, Oona, and other starlets in this Civil War drama about a southern all-girls boarding school that takes in a wounded Union soldier, who causes more than one sexual awakening among the students. With so many young actresses in the cast, this is the movie that I'm most looking forward to in 2017!
Elle in a period dress while filming The Beguiled in New Orleans, November 2016
Split, Anya Taylor Joy, January 20. After dazzling us all with her debut performance in The VVitch, Anya, now 20, is back in this thriller about three young girls who are kidnapped by a man with 24 different personalities (James McAvoy, X-Men). Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (Signs), Split also stars Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson, who just played Hailee's best friend role in Edge of Seventeen.
Anya in Split
Logan, Dafne Keene, March 3. This dark, gritty latest installment of the X-Men franchise stars newcomer Dafne as young female mutant clone of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). A dramatic role with a lot of screentime in a big-budget superhero movie is likely going to make Dafne very famous very fast. She currently has only one other credited acting role, and I hope that she and her family are prepared for how much her life is probably about to change. Best wishes to her.
Dafne in Logan
Beauty and the Beast, Emma Watson, March 17. Of course I had to include this one on the list. It seems like everyone has been waiting to see Emma bring to life one of Disney's most beloved princesses, brainy beautiful Belle, in the studio's latest real-life fairy tale (see previously, Cinderella and Maleficent). Emma's adult drama The Circle, with Tom Hanks, is due out on April 28. She recently decided to take a break from acting and has no other upcoming projects.
Emma in Beauty and the Beast
Wonder, Izabela Vidovic, April 7. In this heart-warming family drama, young actor Jacob Tremblay plays a boy with facial deformities trying to fit in at a new school. It's Jacob's biggest role since his child-star-making performance in Room, and a number of young actresses have supporting roles as his classmates, including Jacob's real-life sister Emma Tremblay (The Giver). Izabela, as Jacob's sister, will likely have the most screentime.
Jacob Tremblay and Julia Roberts ( August: Osage County) in Wonder
November Criminals, Chloe Moretz, April 7. Chloe stars alongside young actor Ansel Elgort ( Divergent) in this thriller about a Washington DC teenager who investigates the death of a friend's mother. Chloe and Ansel have previously presented together at the 2015 Oscars and worked together in Carrie. Chloe has two other films tentatively set for 2017, The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Suspiria, that she had already mostly completed when she decided to take a break from acting.
Chloe and Ansel at the Teen Vogue 10th Anniversary Party, February 2013
The Beguiled, Elle Fanning, July 30. Former child actress Kirsten Dunst stars with Elle, Addison, Oona, and other starlets in this Civil War drama about a southern all-girls boarding school that takes in a wounded Union soldier, who causes more than one sexual awakening among the students. With so many young actresses in the cast, this is the movie that I'm most looking forward to in 2017!
Elle in a period dress while filming The Beguiled in New Orleans, November 2016