‘Tis the season for a visit down reminiscence lane.
With Christmas swiftly approaching, it’s time to bust out your favourite vacation classics. From “Miracle on 34th Street” to “A Christmas Story,” these movies are so beloved that households cozy up by the fireplace to look at yr after yr.
However the place are the younger stars in these films now? Do you ever surprise the place the mischievous son in “Home Alone” went? Or what occurred to little Cindy Lou Who from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas?”
Whereas some grew to become family names, others retired from performing altogether.
Preserve scrolling to seek out out what occurred to those vacation film youngster stars…
Mara Wilson from ‘Miracle on thirty fourth Avenue‘
At 7 years outdated, Mara Wilson performed the wise-beyond-her-years Susan Walker when she charmed audiences within the 1994 remake of “Miracle on 34th Street.” Wilson, 37, didn’t cease there, as she went on to star in the 1996 comedy “Matilda” and “A Simple Wish” in 1997.
Nevertheless, the actress later left Hollywood and earned a level from NYU’s Tisch College of the Arts.
Wilson’s memoir, “Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame,” was launched in 2016, and a yr later, the “Mrs. Doubtfire” alum wrote a strong essay for Elle Journal concerning the sexualization of younger Hollywood women.
In February 2021, Wilson penned an op-ed for the New York Instances about her expertise within the highlight and the way she is now carving out her personal path.
“The Narrative isn’t a story someone else is writing anymore. I can write it myself,” stated Wilson.
Macaulay Culkin from ‘Home Alone’
The beloved vacation basic starred Macaulay Culkin as 8-year-old Kevin McCallister, whose household mistakenly leaves for the airport with out him. When the younger boy awakes to an empty home, he assumes his want to don’t have any household has come true.
After an almost decade-long hiatus from performing, Culkin returned to the large display screen, starring within the 2003 comedy “Party Monster” and the 2004 indie movie “Saved!”
“I don’t just turn my back [on the spotlight]; I actively don’t want it,” Culkin informed the Guardian of fame in 2016.
Nevertheless, after “Home Alone” and “Home Alone 2,” the now 44-year-old did reprise his well-known function throughout Christmas 2018 for a Google vacation advert.
Today, Culkin has continued to behave in varied tasks, together with “American Horror Story,” “The Righteous Gemstones” and “Entergalactic.”
Together with getting again to his craft, Culkin began courting actress Brenda Music in 2017 earlier than welcoming son Dakota in 2021. The pair acquired engaged a yr later and quietly welcomed a second youngster in December 2022.
Peter Billingsley from ‘A Christmas Story’
Peter Billingsley captured America’s coronary heart as BB-gun proprietor Ralphie at solely 12 years outdated. The movie was such successful it’s now performed on TV for twenty-four hours straight each Christmas. Though Billingsley, 53, has caught with performing over time, he’s been extra energetic behind the digicam.
The previous youngster star earned credit as an government producer for “Iron Man,” “F Is for Family” and “The Break-Up.” Billingsley additionally made his directorial debut with the movie “Couples Retreat.”
And in true vacation trend, Billingsley additionally served as a producer on the Broadway musical adaptation of “A Christmas Story.“
Nevertheless, Billingsley did return to the large display screen with 2019’s “Spiderman: No Way Home” and reprised his function as Ralphie within the 2022 HBO Max sequel, “A Christmas Story Christmas.”
Taylor Momsen from ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas‘
In 2000, Taylor Momsen shared the true that means of Christmas for all to see as little Cindy Lou Who. Solely seven years later, the star landed the function of Jenny Humphrey on the hit CW present “Gossip Girl.”
Momsen, 31, grew to become the lead singer of a rock band, the Fairly Reckless, in 2009, which she continues to concentrate on at the moment.
“It’s less frustrating if someone recognizes me for it; it’s more frustrating that I still get asked about it,” she informed Folks in 2016 about being requested to speak concerning the “Gossip Girl” years. “It feels like someone asking you about junior high. It literally was my junior high, so that’s what it feels like to me. It’s such a past life that it’s a strange question to continue to get asked.”
Thomas Brodie-Sangster from ‘Love Actually’
The infant-faced star Thomas Brodie-Sangster has stayed within the highlight since starring within the 2003 rom-com.
Brodie-Sangster, 34, appeared in “Nowhere Boy,” “Nanny McPhee” and “The Maze Runner” franchise, simply to call just a few.
The actor has appeared in episodes of “Game of Thrones” and landed a small half in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” again in 2015.
In 2017, Brodie-Sangster reprised the character of Sam in “Love Actually” for the charity mini-sequel “Red Nose Day Actually.”
In 2020, the star hit the small display screen on Netflix’s miniseries the “Queen’s Gambit” and once more for FX’s “Pistol” in 2022.
Johnny Galecki from ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Trip‘
Having Chevy Chase concerned all the time makes for a hilarious time, and when Johnny Galecki joined the “Vacation” sequence as his son Rusty Griswold in 1989, his profession on-screen solely went up from there.
He grew to become a everlasting solid member on “Roseanne” in 1992 earlier than returning in 2017 as David Healy on the short-lived ABC revival.
However a yr later, Galecki, 49, joined the “Roseanne” spin-off, “The Conners,” in 2018 as a recurring character.
In 2019, the actor wrapped his function as Leonard Hofstadter in “The Big Bang Theory,” and his performing ventures have now come full circle.
Galecki is producing a “Christmas Vacation” spin-off sequence titled “The Griswolds” for HBO Max.
A launch date has but to be set.
Eric Lloyd from ‘The Santa Clause’
Eric Lloyd starred alongside Tim Allen within the beloved trilogy sequence “The Santa Clause.”
After Charlie’s (Lloyd) mother and father divorce, his dad (Allen) turns into the true St. Nick, which units off a sequence of Christmas-inspired occasions.
Llyod, 38, continued to behave in between the primary film, which aired in 1994 and the second movie, “The Santa Clause 2,” which aired in 2000. He then enrolled at Chapman College to review movie manufacturing.
Today, Lloyd runs a manufacturing studio, often acts and is in a band.
“It’s funny that people still recognize me,” he shared in a 2014 Reddit AMA. “I don’t think I look the same. But people will come from across the room and say ‘OH MY GOD, CHARLIE!’”
The actor appeared together with his on-screen Santa household as soon as once more for the Disney+ sequence “The Santa Clauses,” which premiered on Nov. 16, 2022.
Karolyn Grimes from ‘It’s a Fantastic Life’
Karolyn Grimes was 6 years outdated when she stole America’s coronary heart as Zuzu Bailey in 1946’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
After working into the early Fifties, Grimes, 84, stepped away from performing. However the Christmas basic has been an enormous a part of her life within the years since.
The star, 84, travels to talk at movie screenings throughout the vacation season, and in 2000, she revealed “Zuzu Bailey’s It’s a Wonderful Life Cookbook.”
Grimes returned to tv in 2020 as a talk-show visitor in “Canaan Land.“
