What Happened To These Child Stars?

March 14th, 2012 - By madamenoire

by Marissa Ellis

There are some child stars that aren’t a mystery…like Jurnee Smollett, who has a bigger career these days than she did as a child star on Full House, and Jaleel White aka Steve Urkel who…well, let’s just say he’s always on the radar. But what about the others who may not be so recognizable to the untrained eye? You may have not realized that certain working Black actors today were child stars of yesterday, or maybe you wonder why certain child stars never rode their talents into adulthood. We’ve gathered just a few cases of child stars to see what they look like now and what they’ve been up to.

 

Kellie Shanygne Williams (36) played Laura Winslow on the beloved ABC sitcom Family Matters for nine seasons. She acted only in a couple of other projects after the show wrapped in the late 1990s including the ABC show What About Joan.

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The Washington DC native married Hannibal Jackson in 2009 and had her first child Hannah Belle in 2010 at the age of 34.

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  • Mrsadkiah

    Marcus….lawd have mercy lol! Yeah I’ve always found him attractive, even when he was kind of awkward on Moesha. Much better than Ray J any day

    • Saywhat

      Marcus had the best lines on Moesha. Don’t mind his looks, he’s a good actor.

  • Elle8u

    Just watching ” Family Matters” this very morning, and wondering whatever became of her. So glad to read this and know she’s doing fine. She still looks wonderful.

  • FromUR2UB

    Hmmm.  Since most of these people are from the last 20 years, then I guess if I asked, “Whatever happened to George Spell”, you guys would ask, “Who?”

    George Spell was a child actor in the late 60s and early 70s.   Used to see him quite a bit on TV sitcoms, crime dramas and westerns during that time, and almost every show or movie that starred black actors or casts. 

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSapphireEmpress96?feature=mhee A.J.

    I remember Zelda from Sesame Street!  They put her with Grover a lot.

  • mochaaa

    troy cannot be that old? what??? and i guess franklin was really a genius. harvard? u go boy. 

    • Passtheketchup911

      Yes and he’s only 16…that means he was prob 14 or 15 when he got accepted to Harvard-plus he was touring with orchestras when he was 4 or 5. He’s awesome!!

      • shehiplocki

         ….I agree, he is awesome….but I was hoping that as a younger child he would get his own show as a young genius….that would have been fantastic for him.

  • Kim

    He has also appeared in various HBO series

  • christielove

    That lady do not look like Zelda Harris. Clifton Williams;the actor who played Troy’s big brother(Clinton) in “Crooklyn”passed away in October,2003. He had sickle cell anemia.

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  • Squeezablechic

    Kellie Williams is a beautiful person. I contacted her on Facebook and she was so gracious.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ST52CMG44KT2WBV53NYSRC5GDA blackpearl

    That IS the wrong Zelda Harris (older lady) photo…that lady is a Dr. , but please dont put the mug shot of a criminal Zelda Harris on here either….OMG…..

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/TYLZADF2ZT6BYIL3A26MUP66KE Jay

      OK, that makes sense.  I was sitting here thinking that that woman didn’t look anything like her younger self.

    • http://www.facebook.com/RosarioRed Rosario Stefania Scarsci

      Um yeah…MN Zelda Harris can not be THAT much older than me (no offense to the woman in the photo). Can we get it together and find her photo?

  • Mcclendon09

    Ms. Kelly would look soo much better if she took that plastic looking wig off her head.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tiffanie-MadameGigglez-Thomas/665285721 Tiffanie MadameGigglez Thomas

    Troy  (Zelda Harris) was in other movies
                       1:He Got Game
                       2: The Babysitters Club (Shhh… lets just ignore the fact that i named that…)
                       3: and she was also in some independant movie about her father passing away shortly after marrying a white woman.
    Come on y’all stay up on y’all research!

    • http://www.peridotdynasty.com/ Roni W

      LOL Babysitters Club was the ish back in the day. No shame in that. ;-) I remember that third movie you mentioned, too. I’ve been trying to find the title of it!

      • Allie1234

        It is Clover with Ernie Hudson

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=13963698 Andrea Marie

          aww i read this book. i gotta find the movie. the character seemed like it could be Zelda identically from what i read. She is the only person i imagined in this role

    • Allie1234

      3* Clover

    • cece

      Wasn’t she in this movie called the Piano Lesson based off of a play? Maybe I’m thinking of the wrong person??????

      • Allie1234

        yes she was with Alfre Woodard again

    • Here2Read

      The Piano Lesson

    • shame on you

      Thank you……your right

  • Media tricks

    Awe look at Laura. She still look good. And she look happy. That Noah look like solange lol boy.

  • LaLaLaMeansILoveYou

    Didn’t the boy from “the Wood” also have a starring role in “Coach Carter” and another movie co-starring Sean Connery (can’t think of the name) about playing chess or something like that? You all make it seem as if he hasn’t been doing anything (if I’m thinking of the right actor)

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/TYLZADF2ZT6BYIL3A26MUP66KE Jay

      That’s Rob Brown you’re thinking of.  Sean did have a lead role in the mini-series, The Corner, which was the inspiration for The Wire.

    • cece

      No, you’re talking about the actor Rob Brown.

    • Aurayia

      play that was a different boy..he name was rob brown

    • Paige

      I don’t know if your’re talking about Sean Nelson, he played in The Wood, and Miracle Boys, where Pooch Hall was the older brother trying to raise him and his younger brother, he also played along side Samuel L. Jackson in the movie Fresh, where Sam,s charater did not know that he was selling drugs at the tender age of 12, they  played chess or checkers a lot in the movie, he was not in Coach Carter.

  • tastythoughts

    oo sean nelson made my heart skip

  • It’s me

    That is NOT Zelda Harris, come on now. You must’ve obviously done the wrong research

    • NSimonefan

      That’s a relieve.  Because the woman in the bottom picture is “attractive”, but the real Zelda Harris is a real cutey.

  • Anthony_606291

    biggggg mikeeeeee, dance fever huh lol

  • awet

    I always wondered what happened to Zelda Harris but why the heck does she look so old?! She’s only 25 or 26.

    • awet

      I think you guys googled the wrong Zelda Harris!

      • http://www.peridotdynasty.com/ Roni W

        They did. I saw a picture of her like a year ago, and that’s not her in that last picture.

        • shame on you

          4-real

      • Chanda

        Madame Noire just put ANYBODY on here. SMDH

    • shame on you

      she was a lot older then ”Troy” in the movie…she was about 13 or 14

  • mike

    what happened to the kids off of everybody hates chris? they were good actors.

    • iRememberStruggle

      Those kids are still pretty young.

    • Allie1234

      i seen the girl on a lifetime movie

    • MsRoss217

      The boy who played Chris is a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh

  • Allie1234

    Rae’Ven Larrymore Kelly was in Preacher childs with latoya luckett

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