26 Adult Actors That Tricked Us Into Thinking They Were Actually Teens

Character age: 16

Actor's current age: 23

"Asa Butterfield is 23 but he still looks young."

—razmatini

Character age: 18

Actor's current age: 25

"I was shocked. Girl had me fooled!"

—siljev

Character age: 17

Actor's age when on the show: 33

Actor's current age: 41

"She was convincing as a teenager on Pretty Little Liars and I was shocked when I found out she was in her thirties."

—kal63

Character age: 18-19

Actor's age (Season 1): 26

Actor's current age: 30

"He was great at playing Zach and I was shocked when I heard he was in his late twenties [while filming]."

—kal63

Character age: 15

Actor's age while filming: 20-21

—keflynn02

Character age: 16

Actor's current age: 27

"He’s 27 in real life but plays a 16-year-old better than an actual 16-year-old ever could."

—katerinap40eaedc3f

Character age: 17

Actor's current age: 28

"Alyssa in The End of the F***ing World. She’s 28!"

—muhammadabcdef

Character age: 16-17

Actor's age (Season 1): 24

Actor's current age: 35

"I was super surprised to find out that Zach Roerig aka Matt Donavon was [in his] late twenties/early thirties when they were filming The Vampire Diaries!"

—justanotherfangirl101

Character age (Season 1): 15-16

Actor's age (Season 1): 27

"I was so shocked to learn he was 27 while filming the first season. He did an amazing job with the role."

—crackheadbrihavor

Character age (Season 1): 15-16

Actor's age (Season 1): 28

Actor's current age: 43

"I was SHOCKED when I learned that Jason Earles was 30 when he was playing Jackson on Hannah Montana. He played the part of a teenager so well that when I learned how old he was it blew my mind!"

—janice95

Character age: 14-16

Actor's age (during the first movie): 22

Actor's current age: 58

"I thought he was 16 at most in the first Karate Kid. Turns out he was 22!"

—nsruiz518

Character age: 16

Actor's current age: 33

"Nicola Coughlan was 30 when Derry Girls premiered. It shocked me because the show already does a really good job of making the cast seem like actual teenagers and Claire always looks the youngest. I was shocked that she was actually the oldest of the Derry Girls."

—monikap6

Character age: 16

Actor's age (during show): 23

Actor's current age: 30

"It's not surprising if you know the actor but Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Jojen Reed. It's like he never ages. I showed my mom a picture of him recently and she was shocked that he was actually 30."

—monikap6

Character age: 16-17

Actor's age (Season 1): 24

Actor's current age: 28

"Cole Sprouse playing Jughead in Riverdale. He legit played Cody on Suite Life 10 years earlier and the two characters are the same age."

—shague1116

Character age: 12

Actor's current age: 24

"She played 12-year-old Amy March while in her twenties."

—shague1116

Character age: 13

Actor's age while filming: 37

Actor's current age: 54

"She was 37 years old when Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets came out."

—shannontb

Character age: 18-19

Actor's age (during the movie): 32

Actor's current age: 40

"Rebel Wilson was 32 when she played a college freshman in Pitch Perfect."

—abigailh45f5949f6

Character age: 15-16

Actor's age (Season 1): 22

Actor's current age: 46

"Alyson Hannigan definitely looked young enough to be 16 when Buffy the Vampire Slayer started. She played early Willow with so much wide-eyed innocence and teenage insecurity and portrayed the character finding herself and her confidence so perfectly, nobody would suspect that she wasn't a teenager."

—fayeolivia90

Character age (Season 1): 15-16

Actor's age (Season 1): 27

Actor's current age: 35

"I think she was 29 and she played 17-year-old Alison Argent."

—keoma

Character age: 18

Actor's age (Season 1): 27

Actor's current age: 37

"Her character was [18] but Brie was the same age as Gillian Jacobs’s Britta, the 'thirtysomething dropout'. She played the schoolgirl trope amazingly."

—cbrodon

Character age (Season 1): 15-16

Actor's age (Season 1): 28

Actor's current age: 32

"Ashleigh Murray as Josie in Riverdale. Okay, I know 99% of the actors look like ripped adult models, but I thought the actor who played Josie was maybe [in her] early twenties. I later found out she is 32 years old! She totally fooled me."

—hiitsnicetomeetyou

Character age: 16

Actor's current age: 28

"Chase Stokes from Outer Banks is 28 and plays John B., a 16-year-old teen."

—emwe12

Character age: Between 13-15

Actor's current age: 29

"Dominique Fishback in the Netflix movie Project Power. She’s supposed to be in the 13-15 age range, but I was shocked when I looked her up to find she’s almost 30. She really looks and sounds like a kid in the movie."

—barbaricyawp

Character age: 16-17

Actor's age (in movie): 25

Actor's current age: 41

—stinkyuhoh

Character's age (Season 1): 16-17

Actor's age (Season 1): 31

Actor's current age: 34

"He came up on another list recently and I couldn't believe he's in his thirties!"

—eleanorwarne

Character ages: 15-16

Actors' current ages: 22-24

"Everyone from On My Block. Especially Ruby."

—brandia4e65fcc94