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00s child actors

posted 8 years ago by magolding
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For something I am writing I need examples of cute blonde 12 year old boys in movies and shows from the 00s that many people would recognize.

I once knew a boy who looked sort of like this boy in this painting (but the boy I knew was blonde)

http://dakotafanningviewpoint.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html

The complete painting can be seen here:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianknightzulu.com%2Fsites%2Fianknightzulu.com%2Ffiles%2FFripp%2520detail.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianknightzulu.com%2Fgutted-sheep-questionable-fate-24ths-drummer-boys-isandlwana&docid=Qcyac_RBPC4S0M&tbnid=BwYaE8ATavm2_M%3A&w=1280&h=854&bih=913&biw=1280&ved=0ahUKEwjw0MO67bvMAhUFdT4KHRzSAP0QMwgdKAAwAA&iact=mrc&uact=8

and here:

http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/military-history/the-battle-of-isandlwana-zulu-wars-with-the-british/

The boy I knew was about shoulder height or five feet tall, blonde, and looked like a 12 year old. His face looked vaguely like the boy in the picture. I think that he was cute enough to be a cute looking child actor, like Ricky Schroeder aged 12, Chad Allen aged 12, David Gallagher aged 12, or Macaulay Culkin aged 12.

But I would like to have more contemporary examples from the previous decade (the 00s) to compare him to.

[–] Wintr_Fir3 (35) 7 years ago

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for.

If it's blond male actors who were 12 in 2000 or thereabouts, I'd say the following were pretty well known at the time:
Jeremy Sumpter of Peter Pan 2003
Lucas Till, who was in X-Men both as a kid and later as an adult, and is probably more well recognizable as that guy from Taylor Swift’s You Belong With Me video
Max Thierot from The Pacifier 2005
William Moseley, who’s best known for his role as Peter in the Narnia films but was acting before then.

And, I mean, obviously Haley Joel Osment was famous in the 2000s.