impressive performances by child actors

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  • victoire thivisol - age 5: ponette; age 9: chocolat
  • judith vittet - age 9: city of lost children
  • kirsten dunst - age 12: interview with a vampire
  • georges du fresne - age 12: ma vie en rose
  • natalie portman - age 13: leon aka the professional
  • kimberly j. brown - age 15: tumbleweeds
  • alakina mann - age?: the others
  • charlotte burke - age?: in paperhouse
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you'll note the obvious exceptions of haley joel osment (sixth sense/AI) and jonathan lipnicki (jerry maguire). actually there are a lot of child actors i'd leave out--but if you're convinced there's someone who deserves to be on this list, please let me know.

(note on ages: above ages were calculated by release date of film and birth year on imdb,and don't accurately represent the age of the actor when each film was shot.)

Agree 100% on Kirsten Dunst and Natalie Portman - great performances in great movies!
Also very good: Anna Chlumsky in My Girl