Oldest Actors to Play Teens in Movies and TV

1 Keiko Agena as Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls: 27 Years Old

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2 Selma Blair as Cecile Caldwell in Cruel Intentions: 27 Years Old

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3 Alison Brie as Annie Edison on Community: 27 Years Old

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4 Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 27 Years Old

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5 Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale Jr. in Catch Me If You Can: 27 Years Old

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6 Darren Barnet as Paxton Hall-Yoshida on Never Have I Ever: 29 Years Old

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7 Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson on Glee: 27 Years Old

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8 Scott Porter as Jason Street on Friday Night Lights: 27 Years Old

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9 Tammin Sursok as Jenna Marshall on Pretty Little Liars: 27 Years Old

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10 Arden Cho as Kira Yukimura on Teen Wolf: 28 Years Old

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11 Chase Stokes as John B in Outer Banks: 28 Years Old

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12 Stacey Dash as Dionne Davenport in Clueless: 28 Years Old

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13 Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man: 28 Years Old

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14 Trina McGee as Angela Moore on Boy Meets World: 28 Years Old

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15 Gabrielle Union as Isis in Bring It On: 28 Years Old

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16 Gabrielle Carteris as Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills 90210: 29 Years Old

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17 Jason Earles as Jackson Stewart on Hannah Montana: 29 Years Old

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18 Meredith Monroe as Andie McPhee on Dawson's Creek: 29 Years Old

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(Also of note: Monroe's on-screen brother, Kerr Smith — pictured on the left — was 26 years old when he debuted on the show)

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19 Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy on Riverdale: 29 Years Old

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20 Henry Winkler as Fonzi on Happy Days: 29 Years Old

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21 Trevor Donovan as Teddy Montgomery on 90210: 30 Years Old

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22 Alan Ruck as Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off: 30 Years Old

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23 Nicola Coughlin as Clare Devlin on Derry Girls: 31 Years Old

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Coughlan also began playing 18-year-old Penelope Featherington on Bridgerton at age 33!

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24 Laura Dreyfuss as McAfee Westbrook on The Politician: 31 Years Old

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25 Timothy Granaderos as Montgomery de la Cruz on 13 Reasons Why: 32 Years Old

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26 Stockard Channing as Rizzo in Grease: 34 Years Old

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Famously, most of the cast of Grease was at least a decade older than their characters. Olivia Newton-John was 29 when she played Sandy, Jeff Conaway (Kenickie) and Barry Pearl (Doodie) were both 28, Michael Tucci (Sonny) was 32, Didi Conn (Frenchie) was 27, and Jamie Donnelly (Jan) was 31.

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27 Rachel McAdams as Regina George in Mean Girls: 26 Years Old

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Rachel McAdams is famously 10 years younger than Amy Poehler, who played her mother.

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28 Sean Patrick Thomas as Derek in Save the Last Dance: 30 Years Old

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29 Bianca Lawson as Maya St. Germain in Pretty Little Liars: 33

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Bianca Lawson played teen characters starting in 1993 with Saved by the Bell: The New Class. She continued playing teenagers throughout the '90s and '00s in Sister, Sister, Goode Behaviour, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, and Pretty Little Liars.

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30 Ben Platt as Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen: 27 Years Old

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