He went on to plum roles in the Stuart Little films, Doctor Dolittle (voicing Baby Tiger), The Little Vampire and Little Mike, as well as guest-starred on Dawson's Creek, but took a break to have a normal high school experience. And here are many more examples of actors who started at a single-digit age, some you still see all the time onscreen, and some you don't.įew 6-year-olds have made splashier movie debuts than Lipnicki, who went toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise in the charm department in Jerry Maguire and got almost as many memorable lines. Making that leap, from adorable child star to grown-up-actor-with-staying-power, isn't easy-and so many have failed to clear the gap. 'But,' he added, 'if you love what you do, you've got to chase that.' 'Whether I'm doing big movies like I did in my childhood, or-I've actually done more work as an adult, it's just that the films I've done haven't hit quite as hard as the ones I did as a kid. 'I've thought about other career paths, especially during my teenage years, and there's nothing I'd rather do with my life,' Lipnicki also said on The Real. He told me to keep creating.'Īnd so Lipnicki did, adding writing and producing to his resume while he continued to seek out acting roles. 'He's great, and he gave me a lot of great advice. He can make you believe in yourself like nobody else,' he told E! News in 2019, referring to none other than Cruise. 'I have never worked with anyone with that amount of charisma.

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