Actors who were too old to play teens

[pokerfan]

Before I even opened this, I already knew who led the list. But she was great.

http://usedwigs.com/old-school-too-old-to-play-teens

[Richardo]

1. Wow - Cameron (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) was *30*?

I was 30 when that movie came out.

[pokerfan]

2. Wow, he's actually older than me

I had no idea.

[RoyGBiv]

9. He didn't really want the role ...

...but they kept calling him...

...and calling him...

...and calling him...

[Richardo]

12. Ha!

:D

[MilesColtrane]

3. Whoa

Luke Perry didn't even make the cut!

[SteppingRazor]

11. Yeah, he's the first one I thought of...

so I checked the wikipedia, and he was actually only 24 in 1990 ... still, he was a pretty old 24.

[HopeHoops]

4. Pretty much the entire cast of anything with Frankie Avalon in it.

[sarge43]

5. Michael J. Fox, born 1961

Back to the Future and Teen Wolf -1985

Michael Landon, born 1936: I Was a Teenage Werewolf, 1957

[peekaloo]

6. Long Duk Dong must've moisturized.

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[pokerfan]

8. 'What's happenin', hot stuff?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88591800">Long Duk Dong: Last of the Hollywood Stereotypes?

"It took me a while to understand that," Watanabe says. "In fact, I was working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I was accosted a couple of times by a couple of women who were just really irate and angry. They asked, 'How could you do a role like that?' But it's funny, too, because at the same time I laugh at the character. It's an odd animal."

[Broken_Hero]

7. hmm, I believe Ralph Macchio(sp)

was 24/25 playing a 15yr old in Karate Kid.

another one that stuck to me, wasn't all that bad, but Tom Welling from smallville, I believe was 22/23 playing a 14yr old freshmen in Smallville season 1.

The age difference wasn't that bad, certainly not as far apart as the list linked in the OP. I didn't know Cameron was that old in FBDO

[pokerfan]

10. born in 1961

making him 23 when the first one was released, 25 for the second and 28 for the third.

His acting also deteriorated, I think. It's hard to tell because the scripts got progressively worse.

[raccoon]

13. Whoever played Liesl in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. nt

[mitchum]

14. James Dean...

there is a kitchen scene in Rebel Without A Cause where Dean looks like a hard-living 30 year old

[Bossy Monkey]

15. Barbra Streisand was 41 for "Yentl"; figured she would lead the list n/t

[LynneSin]

16. They forgot another Stacy Dash movie where she played a teenager

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466839/

From the Trivia of "I Could Never Be Your Woman"
Michelle Pfeiffer's character is forty years old in this movie, while the actress was actually forty-seven at the time of shooting. Her co-star Paul Rudd was thirty-six in real life, although his character was twenty-nine and played the role of a teenager in the TV show inside the movie. But perhaps most unbelievable was Stacey Dash, who plays a teenager in the show within the movie, but was forty years old at the time of production.

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Ironically the director was Amy Heckerling, who was also the director of Clueless - a movie where Stacy Dash (then 29) played a High School Junior.