Up-and-Coming Actors Under 25
Blake Lively
Age: 20
Credits: Gossip Girl, Accepted, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Coming soon: Sisterhood 2, Untitled JJ Abrams Project (aka Cloverfield)
Hotness factor: Got her role in Sisterhood simply by giving the producers her photo, since she had no credits to put on a resume. Now the blonde bombshell is garnering attention as Serena in The CW’s break-out hit, Gossip Girl.
Michael Cera
Age: 19
Credits: Arrested Development, Superbad
Coming Soon: Juno, Youth in Revolt
Hotness factor: His roles in Arrested, summer smash Superbad and Juno suggest that Cera has been typecast as the shy, puppy-eyed geek. We say ‘what the hell’s wrong with that?’ Cera’s superb comic timing will take him far.
Olivia Wilde
Age: 23
Credits: The OC, Alpha Dog, Turistas, The Black Donnellys
Now showing: Recently joined the cast of highly-rated FOX show, House.
Hotness factor: Stunning looks and the talent to match. Plus, Wilde’s career wasn’t exactly hurt by her much-hyped onscreen romance with Mischa Barton in The OC.
Emile Hirsch
Age: 22
Credits: The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, Into The Wild
Coming Soon: Speed Racer, The Air I Breathe
Hotness factor: After a succession of well-received performances, Emile may have finally scored his ticket to A-List with the lead in the Wachowski brothers’ big screen version of Speed Racer, which will hit theaters in May 2008.
Missy Peregrym
Age: 25
Credits: Stick It, Heroes (reality-altering Candice)
Now showing: As love interest Andi on The CW’s Reaper.
Hotness factor: If you saw gymnastics comedy Stick It, you’ll know that this former model can stir up a smoldering mix of bad ass attitude and sex appeal. And if you haven’t seen Stick It, get thee to BlockyB’s now!
Thomas Dekker
Age: 19
Credits: Heroes (Claire’s buddy, Zach), CSI, 7th Heaven
Coming Soon: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Hotness factor: This kid has been acting since he was seven years old and it shows. His massive list of TV credits has finally paid off with his new role as John Connor in the much-anticipated mid-season FOX series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Ellen Page
Age: 20
Credits: X-Men: The Last Stand, Hard Candy
Coming Soon: Juno, Smart People, Jack and Diane
Hotness factor: Playing Kitty Pryde in X3 was certainly a nice career boost but it’s movies like Juno that are positioning Canadian actress Page as the new indie darling. She’d better start clearing a shelf for those awards now.
Lizzy Caplan
Age: 25
Credits: Mean Girls, Related, The Class
Coming Soon: Untitled JJ Abrams Project, Crossing Over, Bachelor No. 2
Hotness factor: She may never play a better role than Mean Girls’ Janis Ian but irregardless, the ubercool Angelino actress is racking up an impressive resume. Some of her future movie castmates include Harrison Ford, Sean Penn and Kate Hudson.
Jay Baruchel
Age: 25
Credits: Knocked Up, Million Dollar Baby
Coming Soon: Fanboys, Tropic Thunder
Hotness factor: He has that loveable geek thing going and his stock will continue to rise when Star Wars comedy Fanboys is released in January and the Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder hits in July next year.
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all of the actors with any praise-worthy performances seem to be in their thirties or older, twenty year olds are just as capable but WHERE ARE THEY?
we need less focus on the fame and the celebrity aspect of being an actor, we need actors who are doing it for the art.
who want to make a name for themselves for the roles they play and not the things they do in their personal lives.
i want to see blake lively play a character that requires brown hair, requires a different speech pattern, different maneurisms, something that breaks her of the type casted role of blonde bombshell
show us that she can truly be an actor and play someone else.
some of the people named above are doing this, but for a profession that is considered to be "so many people's dream" why are there so few people that can do it propely