Child actors with milestone birthdays in 2011

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Child actors with milestone birthdays in 2011

Which childhood actors are turning 21, 30, 40 or 50 this year?

KRISTIN STEWART, 21: K-Stew may be most well-known as Bella in the teen vampire series "Twilight," but she first broke onto the scene playing Jodi Foster's daughter in 2002's "Panic Room."

JONATHAN LIPNICKI, 21: What would it take to steal the spotlight from Rene Zellweger and Tom Cruise on the big screen? You'd have to be as cute as Jonathan Lipnicki was in 1996's "Jerry Maguire." The 6-year-old who asked, "D'you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds?" is all grown up now. Lipnicki is still acting these days. He has two films in post-production now.

ELIJAH WOOD, 30: The "Lord of the Rings" star has practically been acting all his life, scoring his first film role playing a small part in "Back to the Future Part II." Wood really made an impression on the public, though, starring in 1994's "North" and 1996's "Flipper." The grown-up Wood can now be seen on TV's "Wilfred."

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, 30: The "50/50" star first got noticed in TV's "3rd Rock from the Sun," playing an ordinary kid who just so happened to have the extraordinary circumstance of being from a different planet. The show aired from 1996 to 2001.

DANIELLE FISHEL, 30: You used to know her as Topanga from TV's "Boy Meets World," a squeaky-clean show about adolescent friends growing up together. Now Danielle Fishel can be seen on the Style network's female-targeted clip show "The Dish."

JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS, 30: The standout teenage heartthrob of TV's "Home Improvement," Randy Taylor, is all grown up now. JTT (cute kid on the left) had young girls across America swooning from 1991 to 1998 during his time on the show, but had only a few acting jobs here and there after the series ended.

SEAN ASTIN, 40: It might be hard to place him, but think really hard and you can picture Sean Astin as Mikey in 1985's "The Goonies," which also starred Josh Brolin and Corey Feldman. In 1993, Astin also starred in the iconic sports film "Rudy." The 40-year-old has been steady acting since he got his start as a kid, most famously playing Samwise Gamgee in "The Lord of the Rings."

EMMANUEL LEWIS, 40: The cute-as-can-be "Webster" stole America's heart on the small screen from 1983-1989. Emmanuel Lewis played the title character, starting at age 12, but has had little success in the entertainment industry since the show.

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, 40: She wasn't exactly a kid when she played sexy teen Kelly Bundy in TV's "Married With Children," but she was just 16 when the show started in 1987. The show ran for ten years, but Applegate didn't stop acting at the conclusion of the series. In fact, you can see her on TV right now on NBC's "Up All Night," in which she is "married with child" -- but not children, yet.

JACKIE EARLE HALEY, 50: In recent years Haley has taken on comic book character Rorschach in 2009's "The Watchmen" and iconic bad guy Freedy Krueger in 2010's reboot of "A Nightmare on Elm Street," but you may remember him as Kelly Leak in 1976's "Bad News Bears."

MICHAEL J. FOX, 50: He played Alex P. Keaton in TV's "Family Ties" (1982-1989), Marty McFly in "Back to the Future" (1985) -- pictured, and Scott Howard in "Teen Wolf" (1985), but the now 40-year-old is spending most of his time advocating for those who have Parkinson's disease. The actor was diagnosed with the illness in 1990 and revealed his condition in 1998.

RALPH MACCHIO, 50: Macchio waxed on, waxed off with the help of Pat Morita in 1984's "The Karate Kid." He followed the hit as he continued to play Daniel LaRusso in Parts II and III of the film in the late '80s and had a few roles after his "Karate Kid" success, but nothing long-lasting. Most recently, Macchio competed this year on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." He finished fourth.

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KRISTIN STEWART, 21: K-Stew may be most well-known as Bella in the teen vampire series "Twilight," but she first broke onto the scene playing Jodi Foster's daughter in 2002's "Panic Room."

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