The earliest milestone regarding protections for child actors occurred in the mid-1930s and involved one of the most famous child actors at the time, Jackie Coogan. Coogan first gained fame when ...

Her career trajectory reflects how the industry's expectations for female child actors can shift drastically as they grow older, often sidelining them in favour of fresh faces. ALSO READ ...

The entertainment industry is notorious for its mistreatment of child actors, but Saoirse Ronan says that wasn't her experience. Maybe it was because her father was an actor, and her mother was ...