Child stars have been a crucial part of Hollywood for generations, but many of them choose entirely different careers when they become adults.
Peter Ostrum
The name may not ring a bell, but Ostrum played Charlie in the big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
The 1971 film featured Ostrum along with four other child actors as one of five Willy Wonka Golden Ticket winners.
"Everyone thinks that acting is a very glamorous profession, but it is a difficult profession," he said after starring in the film.
That may explain why he stopped acting and became a vet.
Some of the other young actors in the film landed roles on the big screen in the years that followed, but almost all of them moved away from Hollywood.
Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, for example, now works as an accountant in Munich.
Mara Wilson
In the 1990s it was hard to go to a movie with kids without seeing Mara Wilson in it.
As a minor, she starred in "Miracle on 34th Street," "Forever Dad" and perhaps her most recognized role as Matilda in the eponymous film.
But upon entering adolescence, the former child actress withdrew from the spotlight.
"She was 13 and she was clumsy, she wasn't a cute little girl anymore," Wilson told The Huffington Post in 2013.
"Hollywood didn't want me at the time, and I was in another stage too. So after a while, I see it as a mutual breakup."
Wilson became a writer and last year she released the book: Where Am I Now? (Where I am now?)
She also came out, in support of the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub attack.
Mary Badham
Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was an instant literary phenomenon when it was first released in 1960. And it's still considered a classic.
When the big screen adaptation was made, Mary Badham was hired to play the role of Scout, the book's young narrator.
Badham became the youngest actress nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar after her appearance in the film (although the record was broken a decade later by Tatum O'Neal).
The petite actress went back to acting in other '60s movies, but then she gave up the profession for the rest of her life... with one exception.
Badham was talked into a supporting role in Our Very Own after her director Cameron Watson said he wouldn't accept any other actress for the part.
She now works as an art restorer and college exam coordinator, but often writes about her experience on "To Kill a Mockingbird" and attended a special screening of the film with President Obama in 2012.
"When I retired, I was in an intermediate age, I was no longer a girl, nor was I a woman and they were not writing scripts for that age," said the exact.
Shirley Temple
Not many can tell that they started her career at the age of 3, but that's exactly what Shirley Temple did.
As a child actress, she starred in several films, including Bright Eyes, The Little Princess, Heidi, and Captain January.
But as an adult she entered politics and public affairs, becoming a Republican fundraiser and serving three years as the United States ambassador to what was then Czechoslovakia.
She went on to have a mocktail named after her that has ginger ale (or lemonade) and a hint of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino.
When Temple died in 2014, aged 85, she left behind a remarkable legacy of her own. No child actor has ever managed to equal his record as a blockbuster star for four consecutive years.
Ariana Richards
Richards had a few small acting jobs growing up, but he rose to fame playing Lex Murphy in "Jurassic Park" (1993) when he was 12 years old.
She returned to the screen four years later for the sequel "Jurassic Park: The Lost World," but then retired from acting to focus on her art career.
Richards graduated in 2001 with a degree in art and theater and became a successful painter.
But in 2011 she assured me that she would return to the screen. "The interest in acting never changes. Acting runs in the blood and of course, I'll always be interested," she said.
In fact, she has tempted again in 2013 for a role in the TV movie Battledogs.
