The best performance by a child you've ever seen (film or tv)

[Madusa]

Has anyone seen this british 60's movie called 'Our Mother's House'? Cast pretty much entirely made up of about 5/6 kids. Kinda fucked up movie but it's amazing. fantastic performances all round and all the more so cos the kids totally, totally carry the plot.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My nomination is actually radio. Becky Simpson in Spoonface Steinberg.

 

[Jambooboo]

OMG - The Client - he was so cute

It's the kid from The Champ LOL.

 

[chazegee]

Human Giant.

 

[chazegee]

Am I a peodo for thinking those tits are great?

 

[mike desantos]

Billy Mumy in the Twilight Zone episode "it`s a good life", still gives me the creeps

 

[Intastella]

Jodie Foster in Bugsy Malone is pretty amazing, she just IS an adult, the rest of them look like kids playing adults, but she just seems to BE an adult.

I saw an interview with chachi/bugsy and he said about her 'she acts me off of the screen'.

Yeah, so did the Fonz tho...

 

[AverageJoe]

One from TV

I really like Jamie Borthwick - who plays Jay in Eastenders. Its almost as if he isnt acting, he just seems so natural in character which for someone his age (he's 15 now, but has been in Enders for 3 years)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Borthwick

I also find Thomas Sangster immensely watchable - he's 19 now, but under 15 roles include Love Actually and Nanny McPhee. He also played Hitler at 13!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sangster

 

[ChrisFilter]

Tom from Hollyoaks.

 

[brixtonvilla]

Amazed that no-one has mentioned the girl who plays Eli in Let the right one in yet. An amazingly mature performance from an 11-year-old - you get the feeling that she's been alive hundreds of years, and seen so much. Whoever gets the part in the remake will not get close to her.

 

[Orang Utan]

he died this year

eta the kid from the client, not the champ

 

[Orang Utan]

Amazed that no-one has mentioned the girl who plays Eli in Let the right one in yet. An amazingly mature performance from an 11-year-old - you get the feeling that she's been alive hundreds of years, and seen so much. Whoever gets the part in the remake will not get close to her.

though her voice was dubbed by another actor - sterling performance all the same

 

[Orang Utan]

abigail breslin in little miss sunshine and anything else she's been in

 

[belboid]

abigail breslin in little miss sunshine and anything else she's been in

naah, she's rubbish in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

 

[Space Girl]

Oh, and Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon,

I second that one, still one of my fav films too

 

[brixtonvilla]

though her voice was dubbed by another actor - sterling performance all the same

Interesting, I didn't know that. Ta.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Juan Adames as the kid in the original Gloria.

 

[Flashman]

Was going to say Kristy McNichol in Little Darlings but she was over 15 I think.

So Another vote for Foster, in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.