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** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', due to Season 1's ''many'' {{Time Skip}}s, several characters have different actors to portray them as children, late teens/young adults then as adults, most prominently Rhaenyra Targaryen (Creator/MillyAlcock then Creator/EmmaDArcy), Alicent Hightower (Creator/EmilyCarey then Creator/OliviaCooke), Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate then John Macmillan), Laena Velaryon (Nova Foueillis-Mosé, then Savannah Steyn, then Nanna Blondell), Aemond Targaryen (Leo Ashton then Creator/EwanMitchell) and Aegon II Targaryen (Ty Tennant then Creator/TomGlynnCarney). Ditto with the rest of the Targaryen-Hightower and Targaryen-Velaryon children.

** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', due to Season 1's ''many'' {{Time Skip}}s, several characters have different actors to portray them as children, late teens/young adults then as adults, most prominently Rhaenyra Targaryen (Creator/MillyAlcock then Creator/EmmaDArcy), Alicent Hightower (Creator/EmilyCarey then Creator/OliviaCooke), Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate then John Macmillan), Laena Velaryon (Nova Foueillis-Mosé, then Savannah Steyn, then Nanna Blondell) and Aemond Targaryen (Leo Ashton then Creator/EwanMitchell). Ditto with the rest of the Targaryen-Hightower and Targaryen-Velaryon children.

** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', due to Season 1's ''many'' {{Time Skip}}s, several characters have different actors to portray them as children, late teens/young adults then as adults, most prominently Rhaenyra Targaryen (Creator/MillyAlcock then Creator/EmmaDArcy), Alicent Hightower (Creator/EmilyCarey then Creator/OliviaCooke), Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate then John Macmillan), Laena Velaryon (Nova Foueillis-Mosé, then Savannah Steyn, then Nanna Blondell) and Aemond Targaryen (Leo Ashton then Ewan Mitchell). Ditto with the rest of the Targaryen-Hightower and Targaryen-Velaryon children.

** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', several characters have different actors to portray them as late teens/young adults then as adults, such as Rhaenyra Targaryen (Creator/MillyAlcock then Creator/EmmaDArcy), Alicent Hightower (Creator/EmilyCarey then Creator/OliviaCooke), Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate then John Macmillan) and Laena Velaryon (Nova Foueillis-Mosé, then Savannah Steyn, then Nanna Blondell). All of the adult actors appear starting with episode 6 of Season 1.

* Season 2 of ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' acts as a prequel to Season 1 taking place nearly thirty years previously, with three characters carried over. Molly Solverson, the protagonist of the first season played by Creator/AllisonTolman, appears as a little girl played by Raven Stewart. Meanwhile, her father Lou, a semi-retiree in his 60s played by Creator/KeithCarradine in the first season, is now the thirty-something protagonist, being played by Creator/PatrickWilson. There's a secondary character carried over in the form of Ben Schmidt, Gus's boss from the first season (where he was played by Peter Breitmayer), whom Lou ends up rather reluctantly working with in the second (where he's now played by Keir O'Donnell).

** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', several characters have different actors to portray them as late teens/young adults then as adults, such as Rhaenyra Targaryen (Creator/MillyAlcock then Creator/EmmaDArcy), Alicent Hightower (Creator/EmilyCarey then Creator/OliviaCooke), Laenor, and Laena.

* ''Series/TheCrown2016'': As the premise of the series is to depict [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II's]] entire reign with two seasons to cover each period, the plan is to have different actors play the characters each time the narrative skips forward.

** In ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', Creator/OliviaCooke plays adult Alicent Hightower while Creator/EmilyCarey plays her younger self.

* Creator/TheBBC miniseries ''Series/{{Casanova}}'' cast Creator/DavidTennant as the young Casanova, Creator/PeterOToole as the old Casanova and John Sandilands and Zachary Fox as Casonova as a child.

* ''Series/{{Centennial}}'' used makeup to show most characters aging, outside of brief, non speaking childhood scenes. However, the character of Jim Lloyd was portrayed by Michael [=LeClair=] as a 16 year old and Creator/WilliamAtherton as an adult. Also seen with the characters of the two Pasquinel brothers and Philip Wendell. In the latter case, it was the childhood version, played by Doug [=McKeon=], who had the larger role in comparison with the adult, played by Morgan Paull.

%%* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' did a similar thing with a childhood flashback Catherine had.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' did this during a flashback in the final episode of the 333 Stalker arc, "The Thing about Heroes," with Walter Curry playing Creator/GarySinise's character, Mac Taylor, as a 14-yr old in Chicago.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}''
** Throughout the show, Selina Kyle is a teenager played by Camren Bicondova. For the DistantFinale (which takes place a decade in the future), the grown-up ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} is played by Creator/LiliSimmons.

** In the last scene of Season 6, and the whole of Season 7, Adult Henry is played by Andrew J. West. Jared S. Gilmore reprises his role of Young Henry in a handfule of Storybrooke scenes.
* In a non-time example, ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' has transgender character Sophia played transgender actress Laverne Cox, and by Cox's twin brother M Lamar as her pre-transition self.
* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': "The Dream" features older versions of Mr. Conklin, Walter Denton, Mrs. Davis, Mr. Boynton and Mrs. Boynton nee Brooks played by series regulars Gale Gordon, Richard Crenna, Jane Morgan, Robert Rockwell and Eve Arden respectively.

** In "A Stitch in Time", Theresa Givens is played by by Corrie Clark as a 15-year-old in 1976 and Amanda Plummer as a 35-year-old in 1996.

** In the ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' two-part episode "Rangers of Two Worlds," Billy underwent accelerated aging as a side-effect of his personal solution to the Master Vile situation, portrayed by an {{uncredited|Role}} older actor who remains unindentified as of 2020. The real world reason this happened was David Yost leaving the show because of off-camera gay bashing he was the target of, the two-parter serving to write his character off without Yost's involvement.

* In ''Series/PushingDaisies'', two of the main characters are Ned (played by Creator/LeePace) and Chuck (played by Creator/AnnaFriel). However, every episode opens with a flashback to Ned's childhood, where Ned and Chuck are played by Field Cate and [[Creator/SamanthaHanratty Sammi Hanratty]], respectively. Olive ( Creator/KristinChenoweth), Emerson (Chi [=McBride=]) and Lily (Swoosie Kurtz)also got a flashback each in season 2, in which they were played by Samantha Bailey, Stephen Wash, Jr. and [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Mackenzie Brooke Smith]], respectively.

* All the major non-AI characters of ''Series/RedDwarf'' have have had childhood versions of themselves played by different actors.

* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Gaius Octavian is played by Max Pirkis as a teenager and Simon Woods as an adult. The change happens while he goes to war. Upon seeing the adult Octavian for the first time, his mother makes a remarks about military rations having made an effect on him. The trope is bizarrely averted, however, with Vorenus' children, who should be in their thirties by the final episode. One is played by the same actress who played her as a fourteen-year-old, the other two are played by actors who are at most twelve.

** Creator/MichaelRosenbaum is the regular actor for Lex Luthor but his younger actoe is played by Matthew Munn.
** Creator/MirandaCosgrove plays the the young Lana Lang, who is regularly played by Creator/KristinKreuk.

* ''Series/StElsewhere'': The two-part story "Time Heals" features younger versions of several main and recurring characters: the 1935 and 1945 versions of Donald Westphall are played by Joshua Harris and Michael Sharrett respectively, the 1945 versions of Daniel Auschlander and his future wife Katherine Wellingham are played by James Stephens and Devon Ericson and the 1965 version of Luther Hawkins is played by Sean Williams.

** A major example in ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'', where the PowerTrio face a BigBad who came to being 13 years prior: 20 year old Hiromu Sakurada (Katsuhiro Suzuki) is played by Ryu Hashizume at age 7, 28 year old Ryuji Iwasaki (Ryoma Baba) is played by Koudai Matsuoka at age 15, and 16 year old Yoko Usami (Arisa Komiya) is played by Kokoro Hirasawa at age 3. Hiromu's older sister, 27 year old Rika Sakurada (Risa Yoshiki) is played by Rin Mizumoto at age 14.

* In ''Series/ThisIsUs'', the Pearson triplets are played by three different sets of actors for each decade: the present day adults, 1990s teenagers, and 1980s children. Averted with Creator/MandyMoore, who plays Rebecca from young adulthood into her elder years and actually had to talk the crew out of having an older actress play present-day Rebecca - a decision she ultimately came to regret as she had to be put under heavy makeup for those scenes.

* This played with a twist in ''Series/{{Westworld}}''. William is played by Creator/JimmiSimpson while his older self [[spoiler:is The Man in Black himself played by Creator/EdHarris]].
%%* ''Series/TheWonderYears'' features an adult narrator, and his childhood self the main protagonist.

* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'': Aside from ''Series/EwanMcGregor'' reprising his role of Obi-Wan, Creator/JoelEdgerton and Bonnie Piesse reprising Owen and Beru Lars and Creator/HaydenChristensen returning as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, the ten-year-old Luke and Leia are portrayed by Grant Feely and Vivien Lyra Blair respectively.

* ''Series/MyHero:'' The talking babies Ollie and Cassie Sunday, while voiced by child actors that remain throughout the show, are physically portrayed by infant actors whom are swapped out every season.

** Wallace Huo plays Lian Cheng as an adult and Yan Xu Jia plays him as a child.

* ''Series/TheLegendOfXiaoChuo'':
** Shawn Dou plays De Rang as an adult and Lu Zhan Xiang plays him as a child.
** Chen Hao plays Long Xu as an adult, Cary Ye plays him as a teenager, and Leo Pei plays him as a child.
** Yang Yu Tong plays Pusage as an adult and Tao Yi Xi plays her as a child.
** A Si Han plays Molugu as an adult and Xue Han Yu plays him as a child.

** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Elnor is portrayed by Ian Nunney as a child and Evan Evagora as an adult.

** The Doctor's frequent enemy Davros has been portrayed by a number of actors. However, in Series 9, he's portrayed by Julian Bleach. The Doctor also encounters Davros as a child, played by Joey Price.

* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'': Aside from ''Series/EwanMcGregor'' reprising his role of Obi-Wan, the ten-year-old Luke and Leia are portrayed by Grant Feely and Vivien Lyra Blair respectively.

* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon's mother is played by Creator/LaurieMetcalf. In Young Sheldon, her younger self is played by Laurie Metcalf's daughter, Creator/ZoePerry.

* In ''Series/KungFu'''s OnceAnEpisode flashbacks, young Kwai Chang Caine was played by Radames Perá. In the occasional flashback to teenage Caine, he's played by star David Carradine's younger brother Keith, with David usually (but not always) providing the voice.

* ''Series/TheLegendOfMiYue'' has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and covers a ''long'' time, so unsurprisingly it has many examples of this.