Worst Child Actors

1. Dee from What's Happening! - Was that a trainwreck or what?
Always looked at the camera, could not deliver lines, slurred speech
and always no emotion... and never enunciated.

2. Those creepy twins from "Everybody Loves Raymond". Always grinned
& looked at camera and could not deliver lines.

cloud dreamer...

Carrie on Little House

Mickey...

This is funny. I've been watching Little House reruns--Laura and Mary
are adults, Carrie is now supposed to be the young cute kid and I
noticed Landon brought on another little girl and boy(a young Jason
Bateman) which left Carrie with basically nothing to do on the
show....once again.
BTW, I think the young man who played Albert is very cute.

Marlene Blanshay...

Suzanne Crough from the partridge family.... why they ever got her I'll
never know. SHe wasn't even really cute!

Taylor...

But did ya notice Dave Madden checking out Suzanne Crough's little
pre-teen titties in the episode where Chris and Tracy run away from home
and take shelter at Reuben's apartment? During that bubble bath scene
his eyes were plastered on her exposed nipples the entire time.

Marlene Blanshay...

ewwwwwwwwwww! Mr Kinkyade....

Ronnie...

You took my answer! :)

Goro...

How about the kid in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. The daughter, i mean.
Man, that kid was so AWFUL, her last name had to have bene Cronenberg.

Russell Watson...

People on alt.tv.the-shield have a field day ragging on Chiklis' real
life daughter, who plays his oldest kid on the show, any time she's on
there. She is pretty lame.

Margarita Salt...

The kid who played autistic in Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis. Good
movie, HORRIBLE acting.

Captain Infinity...

Dakota Fanning.

Steven L....

Don't judge Dakota Fanning by "War of the Worlds" alone. She has been
an effective actress in her past roles. Much better than some of the
others already mentioned in this discussion.

Goro...

here's a minor pet peeve of mine: when i watch a child actor on the
screen, i want to see a child, not a shrunken down adult. Dakota
Fanning and HJ Osment both tend to have extremely adultish mannerisms
and speech patterns. It's off-putting (to me).

Pidge...

But that IS Dakota - she's an old soul.

William George Ferguson...

It depends somewhat on the role. When Juliette Goglia played the
daughter of a woman Charlie Sheen (I think it was Charlie Sheen's
character) was interested in on Two and a Half Men, she needed to play
'little girl'. Intelligent 'little girl' maybe, but still 'little girl'.
However, in her recurring role on Joan of Arcadia, where she played
'Little Girl God', she needed to play 'adult in child's body' in while
still doing some little girl mannerisms, with the little girl mannerisms
intended deliberately to counterpoint/clash with the fact that she was,
well, God (omniscient, wise, all that).

(Goglia note, I seen that she is in the Disney pilot Haversham Hall)

Taylor...

And look at HJO now ("WEHT HJO?"). Maybe Dakota will follow suit.

Home...

I really liked What's Happening and all the characters on the show except
for Dee. She is as bad as the little sister on Drake and Josh.

SoHillsGuy...

...and you'd be wrong.

Captain Infinity...

On *your* planet, maybe. On mine she's a ham, and creepy looking. She
give me shivers. I'm not sure she's actually human.

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Captain Infinity

Pidge...

Hehe.
I'd never call her a ham.

senna...

Her name is "Dakota", so people assume she's a good actress.

Margarita Salt...

Pidge...

Miko Hughes?
I remember him in "Kindergarten Cop"

Her first name is Hannah. Does that change anything?

Taylor...

Just means she's phony enough to fit into the entertainment industry.

Rhino...

Huh? I've only ever seen her in Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and I
thought she did a very good job in that.

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Captain Infinity