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Plenty of child stars survive the business and go on to even greater success as adults. See how much you know about child actors.Anna Paquin was only 11 years old when she took home her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in "The Piano."
Macaulay Culkin plays the tambourine and other instruments in a Velvet Revolver tribute band called The Pizza Underground.
Drew won the role of Gertie at the tender age of 7. The stardom that followed led her on a downward spiral that ended in rehab at age 13.
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Mickey Rooney starred in more than 20 Andy Hardy pictures and continued acting well into his 90s.
Keshia Knight-Pulliam won the role of Rudy at the age of 4. After the show ended, she took a 10-year break to attend college before returning to show business.
After her work on Blossom, Bialik earned a doctorate in neuroscience from UCLA.
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Foster earned an Oscar nod for playing a child prostitute in "Taxi Driver."
Neil Patrick Harris played a teenage doctor named Dougie Howser for four seasons during his teen years.
Mathers played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver from 1957 to 1963. He went on to serve in the Air Force National Guard after the show ended, and despite many rumors to the contrary, he was not killed in Vietnam.
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McKellar majored in math at UCLA and went on to earn her doctorate before writing a series of math books aimed at young girls.