Curated playlist
American child models
- Reese WitherspoonReese Witherspoon walked into an open casting call in 1991 intending to read for a bit part. She left with the lead in The Man in the Moon, playing Dani Trant, a 14-year-old country girl in Louisiana. Thirty years later, in 2021, Forbes…
- Kirsten DunstKirsten Dunst was ten years old when she shared a screen kiss with Brad Pitt, an actor two decades her senior, and her verdict was blunt. "I thought it was gross, that Brad had cooties. I mean, I was 10," she recalled. Dunst, an American…
- Kylie JennerKylie Jenner became the first woman to reach 300 million followers on Instagram in January 2022, passing the previous record holder, the singer Ariana Grande. That number belongs to someone who spent her childhood in front of television…
- Milla JovovichMilla Jovovich once invented and mastered an alien language of more than 400 words, all for a single film role. She is an American actress, singer and former model, born in Kyiv and raised in Los Angeles. In 2006 the music channel VH1…
- River PhoenixRiver Phoenix was an American actor and musician, and at the 92nd Academy Awards his brother Joaquin spoke one of River's lyrics aloud. Accepting the Best Actor prize, Joaquin told the room that River wrote it at 17: "run to the rescue…
- Sean AstinSean Astin was 18 months old when he looked at the groom at his mother's wedding and cried out "Daddy!" The groom was the actor John Astin. The bride was the actress Patty Duke. The Episcopal priest performing the ceremony answered with a…
- Jennifer ConnellyJennifer Connelly was eleven years old when she walked into an audition for the director Sergio Leone and tried to pass as a ballerina. She had never taken a ballet lesson. She simply imitated what she imagined a dancer would do. Leone was…
- Megan FoxIn 2010, the American actress Megan Fox said something few stars say about their own fame: "My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character." She added that she did not regret what had happened to…
- Liv TylerLiv Tyler owes her first name to a magazine cover. Her mother, the model and singer Bebe Buell, saw the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann on the TV Guide issue of the 5th of March 1977, and she chose the name for her coming daughter. That…
- Leighton MeesterLeighton Meester, the American actress and singer, was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on the 9th of April 1986. Her mother gave birth in a hospital while serving a federal prison sentence. Afterward, the baby stayed with her for three months…
- Amanda SeyfriedAmanda Seyfried has headlined films that together took in more than $2.4 billion at the worldwide box office. In 2022, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She holds a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe…
- Brenda SongBrenda Song was six years old when she and her mother left Carmichael, California, for Los Angeles. The move was meant to support her acting career. The rest of the family followed two years later. Song had been born in that Sacramento…
- Taylor MomsenTaylor Momsen was on stage in Seville, Spain, on the 31st of May 2024 when a bat bit her. She was performing with her band, the Pretty Reckless, at the time. The bite meant she had to take vaccinations for rabies. Momsen is an American…