Central POP

20/20: 20 Stars 20 and Younger

EMMA WATSON
Age: 18
Last Project: The Tale of Despereaux
Upcoming Project: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $1,461,797,640

Emma Watson has received all kinds of praise for her role as Hermione Granger, the know-it-all friend of Harry Potter. It turns out that Watson is also a real-life whiz at school; she aced her British college entrance exams with straight A’s.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE
Age: 19
Last Project: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Upcoming Project: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $1,411,173,590

Harry Potter has made Daniel Radcliffe very famous and very rich, but that hasn’t stopped him from raising eyebrows by appearing on stage in London and on Broadway in the very grown-up drama, “Equus.”

DAKOTA FANNING
Age: 15
Last Projects: Push, Coraline
Upcoming Movies: Winged Creatures
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $687,990,703

Dakota Fanning is an old pro in the industry. She first appeared on the silver screen in the “I Am Sam” in 2001 and has built up an impressive resume: “Man on Fire,” “War of the Worlds” and “The Secret Life of Bees.” Though it hasn’t been made official, Dakota might be playing a role in “New Moon,” the sequel to “Twilight.”

ABIGAIL BRESLIN
Age: 12
Last Project: Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Upcoming Project: My Sister’s Keeper
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $ 516,538,143

At age ten, Abigail Breslin became one of the youngest people ever nominated for an Oscar for her turn in “Little Miss Sunshine.” And since then her career has taken off, starring in “Nim’s Island,” “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” and the upcoming “My Sister’s Keeper,” with Cameron Diaz and Alec Baldwin.

FREDDIE HIGHMORE
Age: 17
Last Project: The Spiderwick Chronicles
Upcoming Project: Astro Boy
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $453,609,945

Freddie Highmore had his breakout role in “Finding Neverland,” which garnered him a SAG Award nomination. Since then, he’s become the go-to guy for upscale fantasy films, starring in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Golden Compass,” and “The Spiderwick Chronicles.”

ANNASOPHIA ROBB
Age: 15
Last Project: Sleepwalking
Upcoming Project: Race to Witch Mountain
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $426,792,732

AnnaSophia Robb got her big break in “Because of Winn-Dixie,” co-starring Jeff Daniels and a really cute dog. Since then, she’s played a workplace casualty in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” a drowning victim in “The Bridge to Terabithia” and a demon child in “The Reaping.”

KRISTEN STEWART
Age: 18
Last Project: Twilight
Upcoming Project: Adventureland, New Moon
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $419,381,120

Though Kristen Stewart got her first mainstream break playing Jodie Foster’s diabetic daughter in “Panic Room,” she rose to A-list status after starring in “Twilight.” For the sequel, “New Moon,” she will reportedly pull down $12 million plus a cut of the profits. Not bad for someone who can’t legally drink.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE
Age: 19
Last Project: The latest episode of “Heroes”
Upcoming Project: I Love You Beth Cooper
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $344,794,803

Hayden Panettiere’s first role was in a Playskool commercial at the tender age of eleven months. After 12 years of working on TV and in movies, she landed the part of super-powered cheerleader Claire Bennet in “Heroes,” turning her overnight into a celebrity and fanboy obsession. And this year brings her first film lead as the title character in “I Love You Beth Cooper.”

TAYLOR LAUTNER
Age: 17
Last Project: Twilight
Upcoming Project: New Moon
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $311,190,718

Taylor Lautner has come a long way since playing the aquatic hero of 2005’s “The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl.” He’s put on over 25 pounds of muscle to play the bulked-up Jacob Black in “New Moon.” Not that he needed protection from bullies to begin with. By the age of twelve, he won three karate Junior World Championships.

MICHAEL CERA
Age: 20
Last Project: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Upcoming Project: Year One, Youth in Revolt
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $296,443,359

His breakout movie roles in “Superbad” and “Juno” have made Michael Cera a bona fide star. But to a devoted cult of “Arrested Development” fans, he is still George-Michael, youngest member of the Bluth family and “Mister Manager” of the family banana stand. And, rumor has it, he will soon be reprising that role in a planned “Arrested Development” movie.

ELLE FANNING
Age: 10
Last Project: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Upcoming Project: Phoebe in Wonderland
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $295,565,093

Even though Elle is four years younger than her sibling Dakota, she made her movie debut in the same flick — “I Am Sam” — playing the toddler version of her sister’s character. Since then, Elle has gone on to be a star in her own right, appearing in two movies with Brad Pitt.

Rory Culkin
Age: 19
Last Project: The Night Listener
Upcoming Project: Lymelife
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $249,115,798

Like Elle Fanning, Rory Culkin got his start in movies playing the younger versions his elder siblings. But after appearing opposite Laura Linney in the 2000 indie film “You Can Count On Me,” he nabbed a Young Artist Award. Since then, he’s gained critical favor for his work in a string of indies flicks, proving that he’s no longer his brothers’ stand-in.

JADEN SMITH
Age: 10
Last Project: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Upcoming Project: Untitled Karate Kid Remake
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $241,801,573

Jaden debuted opposite his dad, Will Smith, in “The Pursuit of Happyness,” and now he is set to star in a remake of “The Karate Kid,” which will be produced by dad and will co-star his mom. Apparently, the family that makes movies together, stays together.

KEKE PALMER
Age: 15
Last Project: Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail
Upcoming Project: Shrink
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $205,445,683

Keke Palmer turned heads in 2006 with a pair of performance, first in “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion” and then in “Akeelah and the Bee.” Since then she’s played a double-dutch jump roper in “Jump In,” a star quarterback in “The Longshots,” and Samuel L. Jackson’s daughter in “Cleaner.”

MILEY CYRUS
Age: 16
Last Project: Bolt
Upcoming Project: Hannah Montana: The Movie
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $179,335,360

For those who’ve been living in a hole for the past three years, Miley Cyrus and her alter-ego Hannah Montana have become staggeringly popular among the tween set. And for her next flick, she’s going to take her beloved TV show to the silver-screen. Expect lines of screaming 13-year-old girls.

EMMA ROBERTS
Age: 18
Last Project: Hotel for Dogs
Upcoming Project: The Winning Season
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $109,715,870

The niece of Julia and the daughter of Eric, Emma Roberts has showbiz in her blood. And after debuting in the Nickelodeon series “Unfabulous” and starring in flicks like “Aquamarine,” “Nancy Drew” and “Hotel for Dogs,” she looks like might have a future as bright as her Oscar-winning aunt’s.

DEV PATEL
Age: 18
Last Project: Slumdog Millionaire
Upcoming Movie: Airbender
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $101,890,024

Dev Patel got his star-making role in “Slumdog Millionaire” because of director Danny Boyle’s teenage daughter. She was a fan of his work in British TV series “Skins,” and tipped off her dad who was struggling to cast the lead role. The rest was history.

VANESSA HUDGENS
Age: 20
Last Project: High School Musical 3
Upcoming Project: Bandslam
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $90,559,416

Vanessa Hudgens made a name for herself starring as ace student Gabriella Montez in the squeaky clean “High School Musical” franchise. And for her next movie, “Bandslam,” she stars in another high-school-themed musical romantic comedy, but this one also features David Bowie (?!) and Lisa Kudrow.

DAVID KROSS
Age: 18
Last Project: The Reader
Upcoming Project: Same Same But Different
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $23,588,377

German actor David Kross shared a bathtub with Kate Winslet as her under-aged lover in “The Reader.” The role garnered a lot of critical attention, landing him a Shooting Star prize at the Berlin Film Festival for up-and-coming actors.

ANTON YELCHIN
Age: 19
Last Project: Charlie Bartlett
Upcoming Movies: Star Trek, Terminator Salvation
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $19,346,711

Anton Yelchin was born in Leningrad to a family of famed figure skaters. This summer, he looks poised to enter the spotlight playing a pair of iconic characters in two prequels: Kyle Reese in “Terminator” and Chekov in “Star Trek.”

Source

Wow Yahoo, you’re totally forgetting someone