Which former Hollywood/celebrity twinks have had the most successful transition from young twink to older adult star?

Leo DiCaprio

Adam Rich

Brad Pitt

CZJ

r1 Excellent example. His journey has been almost seamless with mainly age appropriate casting at every stage in his career.

Warren Beatty

Michael J. Fox

Mark Paul Goselaar was around longer than I expected

Matt Dillon

r6 Good shout!!

Roddy McDowell and Dean Stockwell

The Irrepressible RICKY!! Rick Nelson. …. I went to a Garden Party to reminisce with my old friends…..

Warren Beatty and Leo DiCaprio.

Jason Bateman

I wanted to say that Brad Pitt was never a twink but then I looked up pictures of him young on google images, and he was a twink.

Brad Pitt was 28 by the time anyone noticed him in his featured role in THELMA AND LOUISE, which begs the definition of "twink," IMHO.

He'd been doing extra and under-5 work for years by then, but he couldn't have gotten himself arrested as a "celebrity" before T&E.

So I don't think he's a very good example.

Chachi

Neil Patrick Harris

[quote] He'd been doing extra and under-5 work

Atmosphere players!

Jerry Mathers

Keanu

Danny Pintauro

Zac Efron

r16 Strictly speaking you are probably right.

Joaquin Phoenix

Ahhhh - Richard Crenna !!!!!

Kurt Russell

Tim Matheson

Warren Beatty was never a twink. Never.

Billy Mumy

Leo.

The ageless wig wearer, Miss Tammy Cruise

Anthony Edwards aka Dr. Greene

OP, are you talking bout box office clout or prestige?

'Cause Leonardo DiCaprio has definitely always been a much bigger star (box office wise) than Joaquin Phoenix (both former child actors), but I think many would consider Joaquin a much better actor.

Mickey Rooney

John Stamos …. Charlie Sheen

Justin Timberlake

Charlie Hunnam went from cute, scrawny twink to bulked-up butch adult roles.

Jesse Santana was successful in adapting from twink to adult video star.

r35 Either or/ a blend of both even.

R25 Young Joaquin was hot as hell.

r42 Yup and moreso than I had remembered.

R43 Is it controversial if I say I think he was hotter than River?

R44 No!

Joaquin as a priest in QUILLS was sex on a stick!

r44 No not at all!! You fancy who you fancy !

One who I remember is Paul Walker. RIP.

R30, Warren Beatty was 20 when he played a high school student on Dobie Gillis. Total twink.

r49 Agreed definitely a twink and adorable.

r39 Agreed

James MacArthur - Swiss Family Robinson & Spencer’s Mountain

Ryan O’Neal in Peyton Place.

r53 Just googled young Ryan O'Neal- good shout. 👍

Michael B. Jordan, duh

Jan-Michael Vincent was having a good run until the booze and drugs caught up with him.

r56 Very hot back in the day!!

Would people regard Tobey Maguire or Nicholas Hoult as successfully making the journey from actor twink?

Definitely Nicholas Hoult. And I'd add his "Skins" co-star Dev Patel.

Who's the guy on the right at R58?

Mitch Hewer, who played Maxxie on "Skins."

r60 He is beyond dreamy in Skins.

Thanks, R60.

Christian Bale. Became a child star because of Empire of the Sun.

Michael Nader in the “Gidget” tv show with Sally Field and in the Beach Party Movies.

Ryan Gosling

Ryan Reynolds

r65 Gosh Ryan Gosling was only around 12 here!

[quote] Ryan Gosling was only around 12 here!

Intriguing. Tell me more.

Patrick Dempsey

Rob Pattinson's in a middle phase but on his way there. Twilight to serious dramatic stuff like, Lighthouse, Tenet, now Batman.

Rob Lowe? I feel like he spent years having to play shitty movies until he went to TV and basically learned to make fun of himself. I wouldn’t say he transitioned properly.

It’s kind of like how Alec Baldwin went from dashing leading man to fat comedian later in his career.

Lowe had to compromise himself as a leading man to keep his career so I don’t see the transition.

10 years ago, Tom Holland was just a child.

r71 What would you say was Rob Lowes' shittiest ' or worst movie role?

Judy Garland

Johnny Depp - he had a good run until the last decade.

I think Joaquin Phoenix was at his twinkiest in TO DIE FOR.

Yes. DiCaprio is the most successful in film history, probably, as far as never losing stride, keeping producers and audiences interested, and generally plugging forward.

Many others here weren't quite as twinkish when they started or simply didn't have adult careers equal to their adult careers.

Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan - all examples of how hard it is. Of course Rooney was cursed by his height.

Warren Beatty had success almost equal to Leo, but there were more leading men stars (Jack, Redford, Newman, Hoffman, Pacino) back then compared to the 21st century. Warren always had work and directed as well. And like Leo, Warren always dated the most beautiful women😉

R72 Tom Holland's teeth in that photo reminds me of when the Griffins on FAMILY GUY were turned British in one episode and given jacked up teeth.

Good call on Christian Bale. He gave one if the all-time great child performances in Empire Of The Sun. And then he went from twink to hunk practically overnight.

I never get tired of that video at r65. Gosling must die of embarrassment every time he thinks of it.

[quote] He gave one if the all-time great child performances in Empire Of The Sun. And then he went from twink to hunk practically overnight.

And as result lost any hint of attractiveness.

Even though Warren Beatty started acting young, he never looked like a twink to me. He was born looking 25.

r85 I had forgotten or overlooked Christian Bales twink years.

Robert Downey Jr.?

Agree with Depp - until the mask slipped.

Here they are together...

r89 Robert really was delicious looking wasnt he?!

Don Johnson

R90, he ain't too shabby now.

It's those eyes.

But yes, as a young man he was almost supernaturally beautiful.

Kyle MacLaughlin?

The only actor who could give RDJ a serious run for the money in the fairy-tale changeling prince demolition derby sweepstakes,

Kyle Chandler!

The photos posted in R89...

The difference between fey and feral.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Everyone in Hollywood was considered a twink at one point

I was born old.

r97 Even Bruce Willis?

No mention of George Clooney who was on The Facts of Life and appeared on the Golden Girls when he was young and twinkish.

I just found out today on DL you're not supposed to say "twink" anymore. *rolls eyes* Whatever, but I do see everyone has a different definition of what a twink is. George Clooney?

R101 in the 80s yes

Joey Lawrence 🤩👅💖

[quote] Joey Lawrence 🤩👅💖

Bankruptcy court would disagree.

r101 The word twink is fine in my book!

Wilford Brimley and Shelly winters.