10 Actors Who Broke The "Child Actor" Curse

Being cast as an already famous icon before they've been cinematically realized can come with severe consequences of typecasting. It took Sean Connery decades to shake off James Bond, if he ever truly did. Roger Moore had the same problem and as for George Lazenby, well, who remembers?

So when it came time to adapt J.K. Rowling's wildly successful fantasy novels, an 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe was cast. He had a few small credits - such as the young son in The Tailor of Panama - but to most audiences, they would get their first glimpse of the cherubic-faced child in Chris Columbus' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Most agree that the boy brought the right mix of humanity, fantasy, optimism and bravery to a multi-layered role that matured through a decade of 8 films (the last novel was split into two movies), but the real question was where the young actor would appear next?

Nude on Broadway, apparently. Radcliffe walked as far away from Potter as possible in 2008, earning rave reviews for appearing naked in a production of Peter Schaffer's Equus. Since then, he's taken more and more risks, even playing a farting, floating corpse in the oddball castaway film Swiss Army Man. Whatever courage is necessary to walk away from the sure thing that comes with typecasting, kid's got it in spades.