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In 1994 Anna Paquin won rave reviews and an Academy Award for her supporting role in The Piano. Originally from New Zealand but born in Canada, Paquin finished up her schooling in Los Angeles while taking small parts in both independent and Hollywood films like Amistad and Hurly Burly.
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Anna Paquin

After attending Columbia University for a year, Anna re-emerged on the big screen as the comic book superhero Rogue in the 2000 blockbuster X-Men. She now stars in the hit HBO drama True Blood.
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Anthony Michael Hall rose to fame playing geeks in a string of John Hughes films about teen angst, and earned himself a place in the in the 1980s' 'Brat Pack'. He joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1985 at the age of 17.
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Anthony Michael Hall

Audiences began to see Hall in a more serious light when played the villain in 1990's Edward Scissorhands. In 1999 his portrayal of Bill Gates in the TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley led to critical praise, and an Emmy.
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Corey Feldman played the oddball in some of the most popular 80s films featuring groups of kids causing mischief— Stand By Me, , Lost Boys, and Goonies. He teamed up with Corey Haim on-screen and on the Hollywood scene and were often referred to as 'the two Coreys'.
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Corey Feldman

In July 2007, 20 years after they first appeared together in Lost Boys, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman reunited in an A&E reality show called The Two Coreys.
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Corey Feldman

Corey Haim was a child actor who found fame in the mid-80s with a string of teenage-themed films, alongside his off-screen friend Corey Feldman.
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Corey Haim

Haim made low budget films in the 90s, before briefly reuniting with Corey Feldman for two seasons of The Two Coreys. Haim struggled with drug addiction, and died of pneumonia in March 2010.
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Corey Haim

Teen pop star Debbie Gibson's mall tours spoke to the mall youth of the 80s. She was cute, bubbly and talented, and penned all of the songs on her platinum-selling, debut album Out of the Blue.
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Deborah Gibson

Gibson dropped the nickname Debbie and returned to her stage roots, playing in a string of productions on the American and British stage during the nineties. After a Playboy spread in 2005, Gibson united with fellow 80s teen singer Tiffany for a 2011 tour.
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Deborah Gibson

The diminutive child star was the toast of TV at age 10 when he starred in Diff'rent Strokes from 1978 to 1986. Born with a congenital kidney disease, he underwent two kidney transplants and never grew past 4'8.
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Gary Coleman

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After Diff'rent Strokes Coleman faded from the public eye, leaving behind the beloved one-liner "Whatchu talkin' bout Willis?" He did a stint as a mall security guard before filing for bankruptcy in 1999. On May 28, 2010, Coleman passed away after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage.
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Gary Coleman

Judd Nelson enjoyed success in the 80s as a member of the 'Brat Pack', starring in two of the most popular coming of age films— The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire, with many of the same co-stars.
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Judd Nelson

Nelson left teen angst behind for urban crime dramas, starring in 1991's New Jack City and 1999's Light It Up. He had a successful run co-starring with Brooke Shields on Suddenly Susan from 1996 to 2000, and makes appearances on shows like CSI.
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Judd Nelson

Kirk Cameron gained fame and became a teen idol in the late 80s as the mischievous Mike Seaver on Growing Pains. His sister, Candace Cameron Bure, starred as DJ Tanner on Full House.

Kirk is now married with six children, and spearheads a evangelical ministry. He's starred in the Left Behind movie series, based on the best-selling Christian novels.

Shannen Doherty's big break was on Little House on the Prairie, and later as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. Rumors of bad behavior on set followed her when she co-starred on the series Charmed from 1998 to 2001.

Shannen has since played host on Sci Fi's Scare Tactics, starred in the series North Shore and can most recently be seen in Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty on the Oxygen Network.
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Shannen Doherty

Soleil Moon Frye is best known for playing the precocious and colorful Punky Brewster when she was eight years old. In the nineties Frye made appearances in The Wonder Years, Saved by the Bell, and Friends. At just 19 years old, Frye directed the film Wild Horses.

At age 22, Soleil Moon Frye married actor/producer Jason Goldberg. The couple has two daughters, Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg and Jagger Joseph Blue Goldberg.

The cheerful Valerie Bertinelli played the good daughter on One Day at a Time for six years during her late teens. She met rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen at his concert backstage in 1980 and married him the next year
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Valerie Bertinelli

Since the finale of One Day at a Time, Valerie has starred in a steady stream of television movies. She had a son with Eddie Van Halen in 1991, and filed for divorce in 2005, after over 20 years of marriage.
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Valerie Bertinelli

Justine Bateman turned heads in 1982 as the gorgeous but airheaded sister of Alex P. Keaton (played by Michael J. Fox) on the popular sitcom Family Ties.

Bateman proved she was anything but a ditz in 2000, when she began her own fashion line. She also made a cameo across from her brother in the hit comedy, Arrested Development, and stars on USA's Psych.