The 2017 BET Awards
Held June 25, 2017, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Hosted by Leslie Jones.


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Did you know that Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande have the same birthday? The two young stars fell into a feud after their Nickelodeon series Sam & Cat was cancelled early in 2014. Today, June 26, Jennette turns 25, and Ariana turns 24. Ariana received lots of Twitter messages from fans (this is her first birthday since the bombing outside her ( Read more... )

Film: Twentieth Century Women (2016). Young Actress: Elle Fanning, age 17.

This film centers around divorced single mother Dorothea (Annette Bening), who's running a boarding house and raising her fifteen-year-old son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann, 2.5 years Elle's junior) alone in 1979 Santa Barbara. Concerned about Jamie growing up without a father, ( Read more... )

Since today is the Summer Solstice, here are some Twitter photos of young actresses enjoying their summer:

After performing in the annual Memorial Day Concert in Washington DC, Auli'i Cravalho, 16, was happy to be back in her native Hawaii.

Time and tide wait for no one. #CarpeDiem pic.twitter.com/54AA9l2EKv
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In September 2010, I posted an article on this blog titled Kiernan Shipka for an Emmy? about how then-10-year-old Kiernan Shipka's performance on Mad Men might break the drought for kid actors at the Emmy Awards. But Mad Men ended its run in 2015 without Kiernan ever receiving a nod. In the Emmy's 68-year history, minors have only ever won three ( Read more... )

Kirsten Dunst, now 35, had one of her most famous roles playing Mary Jane in the original Spider-Man triolgy, which launched in 2002. During recent interviews at the Cannes Film Festival, Kirsten made some rather harsh comments about how she has no interest in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming reboot and that her films were the best ( Read more... )

Pollyanna (1960), with Hayley Mills
vs.
Polly (1989), with Keshia Knight-Pulliam

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I already made this post about some of the other movies and young actresses at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but I thought the premiere of The Beguiled, held at the Palais des Festivals on May 24, deserved its own post. I am so looking forward to this movie and seeing so many former/current young actresses onscreen together!


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Film: The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015). Young Actress: Sophie Nelisse, age 14.

Based on the 1978 book of the same name, this film opens as Galadriel "Gilly" Hopkins (Sophie) arrives at another foster home. Her new foster mother Trotter (Kathy Bates, Annie 1999) tries to make her feel welcome, but Gilly, angry and apathetic, pushes away all her ( Read more... )

Abigail Breslin, now 21, says that she definitely felt the gravity of remaking a film as beloved as Dirty Dancing. Thirty years after the original film's release, the TV remake starring Abigail as Baby and Colt Prattes as Johnny (played originally by the late Patrick Swayze) will air on ABC tomorrow, May 24. And a lot of the pressure to get it ( Read more... )