(#13) Seth Green
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Seth Green has had a prolific Hollywood career. Perhaps his most well-known big-screen role came as Dr. Evil's son Scott Evil in the Austin Powers films; however, Green had been in show business a long time before that. His career started in 1984, at just 10 years old, when the actor made his debut in A Billion For Boris. Green also appeared that same year in the film The Hotel New Hampshire starring Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe.
Green also had dozens of roles before landing the part of Oz on the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1997. The actor has also gone on to have a productive career in animated television, voicing Chris Griffin on Family Guy and serving as creator, executive producer, and voice-actor on Adult Swim's Robot Chicken.
He can also be seen playing Christopher Guest in the Netflix biographical film A Futile & Stupid Gesture, which is about the troubled life and career of "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney (Will Forte).
(#12) Elisabeth Moss
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Elizabeth Moss made her acting debut at age eight in the television mini-series Lucky Chances. Two years later, she landed her first starring role in the 1992 Lifetime Original movie Midnight Child. She then appeared in several more film and television roles before finally landing her breakout role as Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Jed Bartlet, on The West Wing.
Moss has gone on to have a prolific career as an adult actor with her role as Peggy Olson in Mad Men and starring as Offred in The Handmaid's Tale.
(#14) Hayden Panettiere
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Before even reaching 30 years old, Hayden Panettiere had almost 70 acting credits to her name - the kind of accumulation that only happens when an actor gets a very young start. In fact, she was only five years old when she began her role as Sarah Roberts on One Life to Live in 1994.
After spending three seasons on the daytime soap, Panettiere went on to work steadily on mainstream television shows like Ally McBeal and Malcolm in the Middle, before becoming a household name on Heroes in 2006 and Nashville in 2012.
(#4) Katherine Heigl
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Before Katherine Heigl appeared on the television show Roswell, and well before her breakout role as Dr. Izzie Stevens on Grey's Anatomy, the actress had her first starring silver screen role opposite Gérard Depardieu in the 1994 drama My Father the Hero. Heigl was 16 years old when she was cast as Nicole, a teenager who pretended her father was her boyfriend in order to impress a boy she liked.
Before her small screen success in Roswell, Heigl also appeared in a few other interesting movies such as Steven Seagal's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Bride of Chucky.
(#2) Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Stewart is known around the world for her role as Bella Swan in the Twilight series. However, her first major film role came at the age of 12 when she was cast opposite Jodie Foster in David Fincher's nail-biting thriller Panic Room (2002). The actor is not even 30 years old and already has nearly 40 acting credits to her name.
Stewart has also appeared in several independent and mainstream films since her departure from the vampire series that have made her a household name including American Ultra and Personal Shopper.
(#8) Alyson Hannigan
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Before uttering the now infamous line "and one time at band camp" in the film American Pie and appearing as Lily on the hit show How I Met Your Mother, Alyson Hannigan landed her first big-screen role at the age of 14. Her debut was in the 1988 film My Stepmother Is an Alien starring Kim Basinger.
Between the American Pie movies and HIMYM, Hannigan also played Willow Rosenberg for seven seasons on Joss Whedon's WB drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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