Child Actors Who Played Very Adult Roles As Kids
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Iva Anthony
Leonardo DiCaprio
He may have played Luke, the lovable homeless teen that the Seaver family took in on the television sitcom “Growing Pains,” but Leonardo DiCaprio chose to play darker characters while beginning his film career. At 19, DiCaprio was the alcoholic delinquent in 1993’s This Boy’s Life opposite Robert DeNiro. A year later he would be a high school basketball star spiraling out of control on heroin in The Basketball Diaries. DiCaprio has continued to pick roles portraying three-dimensional, sometimes troubled individuals. He won a Golden Globe for The Aviator as the eccentric and reclusive Howard Hughes.
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