I think Seth Green was in a movie with Alysson Hannigan when both were pretty young, My Step-Mother is a Space Alien or something like that. He looked about 14. No idea what his real age was.

The conversation started with, "Lots of child actors seem to make good transitions into adult actors nowadays. How about those child actors from 20 years ago?" or some such. Elijah Wood and ED et al. would still fall into 'nowadays' category, I think.

I don't know if ED counts as a "good" transition yet. I mean, she's good for the average joe trying to make a living in Hollywood. Except she's making a living in Vancouver, on TV.

Elijah Wood -- now there's a transition.

So you're talking people who were born in the 70s?

Or earlier (Ron Howard? Although he doesn't act -- his brother Clint?)

Are we making a distinction between child actors and teen actors? To me, there's a big difference between making the transition from cute kid to adult and making the transition from teen to adult.

So you're talking people who were born in the 70s?

I think the "now" is people Nutty's age, and the "then" is people 20 years younger than her. As best I can tell from the post.

I don't know how old Nutty is, so I can't be of further help.

Ron Howard? Although he doesn't act -- his brother Clint?

Does his brother Clint act in anything not directed by Ron?

Are we making a distinction between child actors and teen actors?

She seems to be talking adolescent.

Kurt Russell -- I don't think he was so much a "child star," but he definitely was in stuff as a teenager.

Edit: imdb tells me he was the title character in a tv show at 12, so...

I was observing generally that actors I watched as children (when I was a child/adolescent) I am still watching as adults. As examples, Christian Bale is about a year older than me, and Elijah Wood is about 5 years younger.

My general impression was that the Kurt Russells and Jodie Fosters of this world were extremely rare -- not the level of fame/acting they've achieved, but that they've managed to act relatively steadily throughout adolescence and well into adulthood. Whereas, my generation (born 1975) seems much more likely to stay in the business, and not in a Danny Bonaduce hanger-on kind of way.

So my question isn't about 20-somethings who were former child stars, but 30- and 40-somethings who were same. My youthful impression, based almost entirely on Geraldo, was that they all became cokeheads and never acted again after puberty. I'm willing to be persuaded that's wrong.