The 17 Greatest Child Characters in Movie History

Kids who carried whole films: a few won Oscars, a few were possessed, and at least one set traps for burglars.

1. 1
   Kevin McCallister

   Macaulay Culkin's eight-year-old who defends the family home from burglars in Home Alone (1990).
   1000pts
2. 2
   Regan MacNeil

   Linda Blair's possessed 12-year-old in The Exorcist (1973).
   814pts
3. 3
   Matilda Wormwood

   Mara Wilson's book-loving, telekinetic girl in Danny DeVito's Matilda (1996).
   642pts
4. 4
   Mikey Walsh

   Sean Astin's asthmatic treasure-hunt leader in The Goonies (1985).
   597pts
5. 5
   Chihiro Ogino

   The 10-year-old heroine of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001).
   553pts
6. 6
   Wednesday Addams

   Christina Ricci's deadpan, poison-loving girl in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).
   546pts
7. 7
   Cole Sear

   Haley Joel Osment's boy who sees dead people in The Sixth Sense (1999).
   546pts
8. 8
   Carol Anne Freeling

   Heather O'Rourke's 'They're here' girl in Poltergeist (1982).
   423pts
9. 9
   Moonee

   Brooklynn Prince's six-year-old running wild around an Orlando motel in The Florida Project (2017).
   423pts
10. 10
    Hushpuppy

    Quvenzhané Wallis's six-year-old in the bayou of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012).
    423pts
11. 11
    Jojo Betzler

    Roman Griffin Davis's ten-year-old Hitler Youth recruit in Jojo Rabbit (2019).
    349pts
12. 12
    Scout Finch

    Mary Badham's narrator-tomboy in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
    349pts
13. 13
    Addie Loggins

    Tatum O'Neal's Oscar-winning con-artist kid in Paper Moon (1973).
    263pts
14. 14
    Elliott

    Henry Thomas's lonely boy who hides an alien in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
    163pts
15. 15
    Mathilda Lando

    Natalie Portman's 12-year-old apprentice to a hitman in Léon: The Professional (1994).
    163pts
16. 16
    Hit-Girl

    Chloë Grace Moretz's foul-mouthed 11-year-old vigilante in Kick-Ass (2010).
    163pts
17. 17
    Dorothy Gale

    Judy Garland's Kansas farm girl swept to Oz in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
    163pts

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