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11Often in animation, [[CrossDressingVoices an adult female voice actress will voice a young child character of either sex]], possibly because [[NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals it's not always easy to work with kids]], and the inevitability of a young boy's voice breaking once he reaches puberty.
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13Other times, there just happens to be a good kid VA available for the job. However when the child actor starts getting a bit older, then this results in [[TheOtherDarrin the character they voice getting replaced by a different child actor]]. This mostly happens with boys for the reasons mentioned above. You're much more likely to see children voicing children in films, as voice recording for a film takes much less time than a TV series that could last years.
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15Often overlaps with AmateurCast, as young children don't need to be professionally trained actors to sound convincingly like young children.
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17Contrast DawsonCasting, where older actors play younger characters.
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20!!Examples:
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24* [[ChildrenVoicingChildren/LiveActionFilms Films - Live Action]]
25* [[ChildrenVoicingChildren/LiveActionTV Live-Action TV]]
26* [[ChildrenVoicingChildren/WesternAnimation Western Animation]]
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33* Former Montreal-based child voiceover actress ''Creator/MorganHallett'' was 11 to 12 years old when she started to playing characters in both english redubs of ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'' and ''Anime/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
34* ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'':
35** Ichigo Hoshimiya, heroine of ''Aikatsu'', started the series at 13 years old and is voiced by Creator/SumireMorohoshi, who was 12 years old when the series starts recording.
36** Most of the Japanese voice actors for the idols in the anime were also teenagers when it premiered. For many of them, it was their first role in an anime.
37* The English dub cast of ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' features child and teenage voice actors who were close to the characters' ages at the time (though there were [[DawsonCasting some exceptions]]). For many, it was one of their first voice acting jobs.
38* In ''Manga/{{Barakamon}}'', all the child characters are voiced by actual children. This isn't the case in the English dub, where they're voiced by adults.
39* In the original Japanese version of ''Manga/BarefootGen'' Gen, his little brother Shinji, and Ryuta were voiced by actual young boys, whereas in the English dub they were all voiced by women.
40* ''Capeta'': For the first arc (first 14 episodes), the title character was voiced by Naoto Adachi, who was 12 years old at the time.
41* ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'':
42** Nelvana's ''Cardcaptors'' dub of the show did this trope quite well with some characters. The 10-years old main character Sakura was voiced by then 11-years old Carly [=McKillip=], while 10-years old Syaoran was voiced by first Rhys Huber and then Jordan Kilik, who were either in their preteens or early teens at the time of recording. When the second movie was brought over by Geneon this was not the case, with Syaoran voiced by voice actress Mona Marshall.
43** The Latin-American Spanish dub had the then-teenaged Uraz Huerta playing Syaoran in both the TV series and the second movie. For the record, [[VocalEvolution Huerta's voice sounded *quite* deeper in the movie.]]
44* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'' V.V. is voiced by Kazato Tomizawa, who was 10 years old when V.V. first appeared near the end of the first season. [[spoiler:The character is not really a child, though, but an adult man whose physical growth was stunted when he got his Geass as a child.]]
45* For ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', Sunrise repeated the approach taken in ''[[Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne Escaflowne]]'', casting 15-year-old Aoi Tada as Ed (and having her sing for the soundtrack).
46* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'':
47** The Latin American dub cast child actors for Tai and Gomamon (Miguel Angel Leal, [[TheOtherDarrin who was later replaced by]] Gerry Meza), Matt and Agumon (Uraz Huerta), and T.K. and Biyomon (Lupita Leal).
48** The Swedish dub cast several children and teenagers between 11 and 16 as the [=DigiDestined=], with the exception of Joe who was played by an actor in his late 20's. The Digimon were all voiced by experienced voice actors.
49* ''Franchise/{{Doraemon}}'':
50** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' has the two kids from the underground village, Roku-chan and Moya-kun, being voiced by actual children.
51** In the English dub of ''Anime/StandByMeDoraemon2'', toddler Nobita is voiced by an actual young boy. The rest of the toddler versions of the main characters are voiced by adults.
52* In ''Anime/Dororo2019'': Rio Suzuki was fourteen when she voiced the titular child.
53* Ao in ''Anime/EurekaSevenAO'' was a middle schooler voiced by a fourteen-year-old boy in the Japanese version.
54* The lead in ''Anime/{{Fireworks}}'' is voiced by a young teenage boy in the English dub, rather than an adult man like in the Japanese version.
55* Kisa, Hiro, Megumi, and most of the younger versions of the main characters in the first ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' anime were voiced by young kids in the English dub. They were all grown up by the time of the second anime, [[TheOtherDarrin so this trope was averted there]]. (Though Creator/KateBristol returned to [[RoleReprise reprise]] Kisa while gracefully passing Young Yuki's role to Creator/AmandaLee. [[Creator/AaronDismuke Hiro's voice actor]] also returned but as Kakeru Manabe instead.)
56* Nine to 14- [[spoiler:then back to 9 up to 13-]]year-old Alphonse Elric, from the English dub of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003,'' was voiced by 12-year-old Creator/AaronDismuke throughout the whole series. By ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'', puberty hit him pretty hard, so Alphonse was recast as Creator/MaxeyWhitehead (Dismuke made a reappearance [[CastingGag as Alphonse's father in his teen years]]). Also in ''Brotherhood'', Nina Tucker was voiced in Japanese by then 10-year-old Creator/SumireMorohoshi.
57* Creator/ManakaIwami was 19 when she voiced the high school aged Chiaki in ''Literature/Gamers2015''.
58* Any anime movie distributed by Creator/{{GKIDS}} and Eleven Arts often has dubbing companies (primarily Creator/NYAVPost, who is known for doing this in most if not all of their productions) cast children as child characters. Notable examples include ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', ''Anime/MaquiaWhenThePromisedFlowerBlooms'', ''Anime/MiraiOfTheFuture'', ''Anime/OkkosInn'' and ''Literature/PenguinHighway''.
59* Some of the child characters in ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' are voiced by actual children in the English dub.
60* While most of the voices of the kids in the English dub of ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' would be considered DawsonCasting, Penelope's owner Kylie was voiced by an actual girl her age.
61* The ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'' movie ''Sweets Dance Princess'' has the 7-year-old Princess Mana voiced by Creator/ManaAshida, who was also 7 at the time.
62* ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow'': Candidates for the roles of Lucy-May and the other child characters were invited from children's theater companies and the general public, and were selected through auditions from over 60 people. In the end, all of them were voiced by adult actors, except Tob Popple, who was voiced by Mie Suzuki (who was 8 at the time).
63* ''Anime/MayaTheBee'':
64** The German version has an actual female child voicing the title character in all incarnations which is still in use for the CGI animated series by Creator/Studio100 and animated films.
65** Willy is voiced by a child in the Dutch dub.
66* Some of the child characters are voiced by actual children in the English dub of ''Anime/MegaManUponAStar''.
67* Young Johan Liebert of ''Manga/Monster1994'' was voiced by the then 10, later 11-year-old Creator/YuutoUemura. Averted in the dub, where it's a case of CrossdressingVoices where he's voiced by 43, later 44-year-old Creator/JulieAnnTaylor.
68* ''Literature/MyHappyMarriage'': In the English dub, the child versions of Miyo and Kaya are played by child actresses (Juliet Peldon (Miyo) was 7, while her sister Lila (Kaya) was 10).
69* The English dub cast of ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' is notable for casting three actual kids in the lead roles, although one child actor has to do a [[OohMeAccentsSlipping sometimes-convincing, sometimes-overdone French accent]].
70* Similar to their live-action works, NHK's {{Edutainment|Show}} anime will use child actors for any child protagonists:
71** Haruka Fukuhara, who was ten when the show began, played Main in ''Cookin' Idol Ai! Mai! Main!''.
72** ''Kitchen Sentai Cookrun'' uses child actors to play the titular heroes. However, in the first season, Cumin was played by a 7-year-old child despite the character in question being a preschooler.
73* Since the late 2010s, Creator/NYAVPost has been casting children in not only in the movies they dub (such as those distributed by Creator/{{GKIDS}} as mentioned above), but also in some of the shows they dub as well such as ''Anime/GreatPretender'' (with the younger version of the protagonist being voiced by an actual kid) and ''Manga/KotaroLivesAlone'' (which mainly features young kindergarteners voiced by actual children with the exception of the titular character voiced by Creator/CheramiLeigh).
74* ''Literature/OniAi'': Akiko and Arisa are voiced by a 14 year-old and 12 year-old, respectively.
75* In ''Anime/ParappaTheRapper'', the main character, Parappa, is voiced by Creator/MiyuIrino, who was 12 when he started acting in the show.
76* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
77** Ash Ketchum's original VA in the Latin American dub, Creator/GabrielRamos, was 13 years old when he started voicing him. [[VocalEvolution The voice shift]] due to undergoing puberty is pretty noticeable during the first few seasons.
78** In ''Anime/PokemonThePowerOfUs'', the young character Largo is voiced by then 14-year-old Mana Ashida.
79* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
80** Creator/MariyaIse was 17 when she took the role of 13-year-old Cure Lemonade in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5''.
81** Creator/AyakaOhashi was 19 when she voiced Lance, a child fairy, in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure''. However, this is not the case for ''Anime/GlitterForceDokiDoki'', where Lance is voiced by then-30-year-old Creator/BrycePapenbrook.
82** Haruka Fukuhara was 19 when she voiced 14-year-old Cure Custard in ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode''.
83** Hana Hishikawa was 18 when she landed the role of 14-year-old Cure Precious in ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure''.
84* ''VideoGame/PrettySeries'':
85** Creator/AyaneSakura was only 19 when she began voicing teenage character Riine in ''Anime/PrettyRhythmRainbowLive''.
86** Mirai's voice actress in ''VideoGame/KirattoPriChan'', Koko Hayashi, was 15 years old at the time of recording. In addition, one episode features animated personas of Website/YouTube stars Kan and Aki, [[AsHimself who were voiced by the actual elementary school-aged girls themselves]].
87* The English dub of ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'' cast the young Reilly Harrison for the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld apparently-7-year-old]] Emily, and the rarity of this is mentioned in the audio commentary. Creator/LuciChristian, an adult who commonly voices children, did sub in for a scene or two, though.
88* The English dub of ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' cast young girls around the characters' age. The results are adorable.
89* Any Creator/StudioGhibli film that has children (which is pretty much all of them, barring some exceptions) is bound to have them voiced by actual children.
90** ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'' has Setsuko, who is a five-year-old girl, voiced by Ayano Shiraishi... who was five back then. Her lines had to be recorded before her scenes were animated, and because the animators were not used to having to do this, [[FilmingForEasyDub they tried to avoid angles from where her mouth could be seen]].
91** In ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', the main character Chihiro/Sen is voiced by young actress Rumi Hiiragi, while in the English dub, she's voiced by child actress and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' star Creator/DaveighChase.
92** In ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', the two lead sisters weren't voiced by children in the original Japanese version and the Streamline dub, but Creator/DakotaFanning and Creator/ElleFanning provide their voices in Disney's dub.
93** In the Disney dub of ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'', Kiki is voiced by then 16-year-old Creator/KirstenDunst.
94** In ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', the young boy Markl is voiced by then-child actor Ryunosuke Kamiki, and in the dub is voiced by a young Creator/JoshHutcherson.
95** ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', probably one of the most notable examples, had Yuria Nara as Ponyo and Hiroki Doi as Sosuke -- both ten years old at the time. The dub had Noah Cyrus (aged 9) and Frankie Jonas (also aged 9) as Ponyo and Sosuke respectively.
96** The dub for ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'' has Creator/DarylSabara as Noboru and Creator/LilianaMumy as Nonoko.
97** ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'' had an interesting case in which Riku, a child character, had to be recast midway through the dub due to his original voice actor (a young Alex Wolff, to be precise) going through puberty. He was replaced by future ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' star Raymond Ochoa, but Alex's performance is still kept in the film until a certain point.
98** ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' had ten-year-old Alison Fernandez as the young version of Taeko in the dub, along with various other child voice actors including Ava Acres, Madeleine Rose Yen, Jaden Betts, and Gianella Thielmann -- however, the two exceptions in this film are the two adults being played by Creator/StephanieSheh and Hope Levy.
99* Most of the children in ''Manga/SweetnessAndLightning'' are voiced by actual kids, such as Rina Endou (11 years old as of August 2016) as Tsumugi.
100* The ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' dub has many of the characters voiced by children (many of whom [[ActingForTwo appear to share the same voice]]), including Mametchi, Memetchi, Chamametchi, Lovelitchi and [[spoiler:Terurin]].
101* Vick from ''Literature/VickyTheViking'' is voiced by a boy in the German dub.
102* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'':
103** 16-year-old Hitomi was voiced by a teen actress who was discovered through an extensive talent hunt aimed at finding a "real girl" to play her. Of course, when said girl is Creator/MaayaSakamoto...
104** In the first English dub, 15-year-old Dilandau Albatou was voiced by 13/14-year-old Creator/AndrewFrancis.
105* In the 1979 pilot ''[[Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather]]'' by [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Sanrio Animation]], Manga/{{Unico}} was voiced by Hiroya Oka, who was a young boy at the time of the short's release.
106* In ''Manga/WanderingSon'' the middle schooler Nitori was voiced by a fourteen-year-old boy. The issue is his voice had already begun to deepen, however it's a plot point that Nitori's voice is prepubescent until the very end of the anime.
107* Ai Ohto in ''Anime/WonderEggPriority'' is voiced by Kanata Aikawa, who was 16 at the time.
108* In the Filipino dub of the ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' anime, Nate and Katie were voiced by [[CelebrityVoiceActor child actors]] Miggs Cuaderno and Jillian Ward, who were aged 11 and 10 respectively at the time the dub premiered.
109* Due to starting voice acting at a young age, Creator/RinaHidaka has done this for several series including Last Order in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', You in ''Anime/StarDriver'', Airi in ''Ro-Kyu-Bu!'', and Silica in ''Literature/SwordArtOnline''.
110* Alongside the aformentioned ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'' and ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Creator/SumireMorohoshi has also been voice acting at a young age and has appeared in shows like ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'', ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' and ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'' before she came of age.
111* Similar to Hidaka, Creator/KanonTakao has voiced younger characters when she was under 20 in series like ''Literature/IfItsForMyDaughterIdEvenDefeatADemonLord'', ''Manga/DiaryOfOurDaysAtTheBreakwater'', ''Literature/TheDetectiveIsAlreadyDead'', and ''Literature/BanishedFromTheHerosParty''.
112* Creator/MiyuTomita is another member of this club with roles in ''Manga/PleaseTellMeGalkoChan'', ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', ''Manga/GabrielDropout'', ''Manga/WeNeverLearn'', and ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls''.
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116* While not much is known about ''Animation/SimpleSamosa''[='=]s voice actors due to [[UncreditedRole the end credits refusing to list them]], going off of a joke in the episode "Simple Hitchki" where Samosa's group meet their voice actors, the child characters Dhokla and Vada are voiced by children (in the original Hindi dub, at least).
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120* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', the Detention Kids, alongside the kid versions of Manolo, Maria, and Joaquin, are all voiced by child actors.
121* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'' has Eggs and Winnie voiced by two pre-teen kids Isaac Hempstead Wright and Elle Fanning.
122* Blanky from ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' is voiced by then eight-year-old Timothy E. Day.
123* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'':
124** The EnfanteTerrible Darla Dimple's two voice actors (speaking and singing) were both in their early teens at the time of the movie's release.
125** Pudge was also voiced by a preteen boy.
126* The 2003 direct-to-video sequel to ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb'' titled ''Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure'' brought in actual young boys to voice [[KidsAreCruel a group of lambs]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer who ostracize Cardigan from the flock]] and continue mocking him. The most notable is Cardigan [[SweetSheep the lamb]] who was voiced by Harrison Chad, best known as the original voice of Boots the Monkey from the Creator/NickJr series ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' from 2000 'til 2007. [[note]]''Dora the Explorer'' and the ''Charlotte's Web'' animated sequel are both owned by Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/ViacomCBS. [[/note]]
127* Agnes in ''[[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1 Despicable Me 1]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2 2]]'' was originally voiced by Elsie Fisher, who was 6 when the first film came out and 9 when the sequel came out. ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'' [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] Fisher with the 7-year-old Nev Scharrel. This also applies to the Japanese dub, where child actress Creator/ManaAshida, who was five at the time, provided Agnes' voice.
128* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon and spin-offs:
129** In perhaps one of the oldest examples, the title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' was voiced by 12-year-old Dickie Jones.
130** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', Donnie Dunagan, Cammie King, and Peter Behn voiced Bambi, Faline, and Thumper as children. All three were born in 1934 and the film was released in 1942. Young Flower too is voiced by a child, Stan Alexander, who left show business at the age of eight and went on to a career in medicine.
131** Kathryn Beaumont provided the voices of Alice in ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' and Wendy in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. She was respectively 10 and 13 at the time when the each film began production. In the latter film, Peter Pan himself was voiced by 14-year-old Creator/BobbyDriscoll, just a few years older than the character's [[Really700YearsOld physical age]], and John, Michael, and all the Lost Boys except Cubby were also voiced by young boys.
132** ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': No less than ''three'' different child actors played Arthur while the movie was in production: Richard and Robert Reitherman, animator/director Wolfgang Reitherman's sons, and Rickie Sorensen. Rickie is also a case of DawsonCasting, as he was 17 at the time.
133** Roo from the ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' franchise is usually voiced by a young boy. Exceptions include CrossdressingVoices Dori Whitaker in ''Tigger Too'' and Sara Sheen in ''Film/ChristopherRobin''. Christopher Robin is usually voiced by a young boy too.
134*** In ''WesternAnimation/PoohsHeffalumpMovie'', over 900 children auditioned to star as Lumpy the Heffalump, and Kyle Stanger eventually won the role. He reprised the role in ''WesternAnimation/PoohsHeffalumpHalloweenMovie''.
135** In ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'', both Mowgli and Hathi Jr. were voiced by young boys. Mowgli was voiced by 12-year-old Bruce Reitherman, who was also the first voice of [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Christopher Robin]] and the brother of Richard and Robert Reitherman, who had voiced the young Arthur in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone''.
136** For ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', Marie, Toulouse, and Berlioz were all voiced by actual children (Liz "Louise" English, Gary Dubin, and Dean Clark respectively). The same goes for all foreign dubs of the movie including the Japanese version. However, in recent years, Marie alongside [[CrossdressingVoices Toulouse and Berlioz]] are occasionally voiced by grown women in Japanese and French.
137** Skippy, Sis, Tagalong, and Toby from ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' are voiced by actual children.
138** Penny in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' is voiced by a young girlーthe then-eight-year-old Michelle Stacy.
139** The younger versions of the titular characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' were voiced by Keith Coogan and Corey Feldman, the latter of whom would later be known for his role in ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.
140** Scottish mouse girl Olivia Flaversham in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' was voiced by an actual Scottish 8-year-old girl, Susanne Pollatschek.
141** 12-year-old Joey Lawrence provided the voice for the titular Oliver in ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''. Oliver's eventual owner, 7 (8 by the end of the film)-year-old Jenny Foxworth was voiced by now-retired child actress Natalie Gregory.
142** Chip in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' was voiced by the then 8-year-old Bradley Pierce.
143** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', the cub versions of Simba and Nala were voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Nikita Calame, who were 12 and 13 at the time of release respectively. Simba's singing voice was also provided by Creator/JasonWeaver, who was a young teen at the time.
144** Six-year-old Lilo Pelekai in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' was voiced by Creator/DaveighChase, who was almost 12 by the time of the film's release. Chase reprised the role in [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch the franchise]]'s [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries first TV series]] and [[WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie its pilot]] and [[WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch finale films]], where Lilo ages from seven to almost ten years of age in-universe, and Chase's voice does deepen a bit late into the second season.
145*** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'', set between the original film and ''Stitch! The Movie'', has seven-year-old Lilo voiced by Creator/DakotaFanning instead. Fanning was eleven years old at the time of that film's release.
146*** All the other kids in the Western continuity were also voiced by kids during its run. Mertle Edmonds, in particular, was voiced by Miranda Paige Walls (born April 2, 1992) for the first film and [[VideoGame/LiloAndStitchTroubleInParadise one of the video games]], and then by Creator/LilianaMumy (two years and a fortnight younger than Walls) [[TheOtherDarrin in the rest of the franchise]]. Averted in the [[Anime/{{Stitch}} East]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi Asian]] SpinOff shows, as all the kids in the English versions of those shows are voiced by adults with experience in anime dubbing.
147** Jeremy Suarez voiced Koda in both ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'' and [[WesternAnimation/BrotherBear2 its sequel]]. He was 13 at the time of the first one's release and 16 at the time of the second's. His voice had deepened quite a bit by then.
148** The preteen versions of Anna and Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' are voiced by children, even when singing. This is true of most foreign dubs of the film as well.
149** ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' is the first Disney "princess" film to feature a teenage princess voiced by an actress younger than the actual character, with 15-year-old Creator/AuliiCravalho voicing 16-year-old Moana.
150** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', five year old Antonio Madrigal was voiced by Ravi Cabot-Conyers, who was ten when the film released.
151* Creator/DreamWorksAnimation:
152** The Boss Baby has Miles Bakshi voicing Tim Templeton.
153** The titular Ruby Gillman; Teenage Kraken and her little brother Sam were both voiced by a teenager and child respectively.
154* Creator/DonBluth:
155** 10-year-old Creator/JudithBarsi as the orphan Anne-Marie in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'', and Ducky in ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime''.
156** Like Ducky above, ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' had Littlefoot and Cera voiced by children: then 12-year-old Gabriel Damon and then 8-year-old Candy Hutson.
157** In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Fievel was always voiced by a little boy: Phillip Glasser in the first two movies and Thomas Dekker in the DirectToVideo sequels when Phillip Glasser got too old. In the first film, Tanya was also voiced by a child, Amy Green.
158** In ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'', Edmond was portrayed by a nine-year-old in the live-action part. He was voiced by the same nine-year-old as an animated cat.
159** The child characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' were voiced by actual children.
160** 7-year-old Michael Nunes, 7-year-old Tawny Sunshine Glover, and 8-year-old Kendall Cunningham voiced Li’l Bee, Gnatty, and Baby Bug respectively in ''WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994''.
161* The child characters in the English dub of the Norwegian animated film ''Ella Bella Bingo'' are voiced by kids.
162* ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'': Pinocchio and Carlo, young boys, are voiced by Creator/GregoryMann, who would have been somewhere from 11–13 during filming.
163* The animal children that the titular character teaches in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008'' were all voiced by kids. Most notably, Katie was voiced by 8-year-old Creator/JoeyKing in one of her earliest acting roles.
164* While Robin in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'' is voiced by [[Creator/MichaelCera a grown man]], the Mexican Spanish dub actually cast a real teenager, Emilio Treviño, who was 17 at the time of the film's release.
165* In the 2000 animated films and TV series based on Dutch-German children's book series ''The Little Polar Bear'' (''Lars der kleine eisbär'' in German and "Lars de kleine ijsbeer" in Dutch), all of the child characters (such as Robby and Lars) were voiced by young children in the original Dutch and German version. [[CrossdressingVoices Foreign dubs had some of the child characters voiced by women.]]
166* ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'' has children voicing Dax and Gwen Mallard.
167* Child characters in Creator/{{Pixar}} films:
168** John Morris voiced Andy throughout the 15-year span of the first 3 ''Franchise/ToyStory'' movies, effectively growing up with him. Sid was also voiced by 12-year-old Erik von Detten, and Bonnie from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' was voiced by 9-year-old Emily Hahn.
169** Dot in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', voiced by 9-year-old Hayden Panettiere.
170** In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', toddler Boo was voiced by Mary Gibbs (pictured above), the little daughter of Pixar employee Rob Gibbs. The crew had to follow Mary around with a microphone and assembled Boo's lines from the things she said while she played, as Mary was unable to sit still during recording.
171** Nemo in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', voiced by 9-year-old Creator/AlexanderGould. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] by the 11-year-old Hayden Rolence for the [[SequelGap 2016]] [[WesternAnimation/FindingDory sequel]], as Gould would've been too old to reprise his role (they did give him a brief cameo role to make up for it). Squirt, Pearl, Sheldon, Tad, and Darla were also voiced by children.
172** Dash in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' was voiced by 11-year-old Spencer Fox. Similarly to Nemo, [[WesternAnimation/Incredibles2 the sequel]] has Fox [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] by the similarly-aged Huck Milner, since Fox was too old to reprise the role.
173** Russell (9-year-old Jordan Nagai) and Ellie as a child in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''.
174** Rejected recordings of Mary Gibbs from ''Monsters Inc'' were re-used for some scenes featuring Riley as a toddler in ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', while an unknown child actress recorded some lines where she had spoken dialogue.
175** ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'': Arlo, the 11-year-old dinosaur, was voiced by the 2001-born Raymond Ochoa. His voice deepened not long after he finished recording his lines. The human child Spot was voiced by the even younger Jack Bright.
176** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', Miguel was voiced by 12-year-old Anthony Gonzalez.
177** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'', Luca was voiced by 14-year-old Creator/JacobTremblay, and Alberto was voiced by 17-year-old Creator/JackDylanGrazer.
178** In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei was voiced by 12-year-old Rosalie Chiang.
179* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePoint'', then 10-year old Mike Lookinland voiced Oblio.
180* Kimi's classmates in ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'' were played by children who had [[ContestWinnerCameo won a contest.]]
181* ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' features the younger versions of Mystery Inc. (except Scooby) being voiced by children.
182* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', Prince Derek and Odette's younger selves were voiced by the ten-year-old Adam Wylie and the nine-year-old Adrian Zahiri.
183* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem'': In a first for [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the franchise]], this film averts DawsonCasting and has ''all'' the Turtles[[note]]Don was previously voiced by [[Creator/CoreyFeldman an actual teenager]] in [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 the original live action movie]][[/note]] voiced by teen actors Creator/NicolasCantu (Leo), Brady Noon (Raph), Micah Abby (Donnie), and Shamon Brown Jr. (Mikey) to make them more authentically teenagers.
184* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolfwalkers}}'', Honor Kneafsey (Robyn Goodfellowe) was twelve and Eva Whittaker (Mebh Óg [=MacTíre=]) was eight when recording started. While Kneafsey had previous roles, Whittaker never acted before.
185* Emily Prime in ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfTomorrow'' was voiced by an actual four-year-old, who was [[http://www.npr.org/2016/02/20/467468384/world-of-tomorrow-animated-short-explores-what-it-means-to-be-human recorded having actual unscripted reactions to toys and pictures]].
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189* The entire genre of [[CherubicChoir children's choirs]] and boychoirs-- probably the best known are Vienna Boys' Choir, the Choir of Kings College Cambridge, and Libera-- showcases children's high treble voices. Such choirs largely got their start in the Middle Ages when women weren't permitted to sing in church, so the treble parts in choral music were given to boys. Naturally, once the singers' voices cracked, they were retired from the treble section.
190* The voice provider for the Music/{{Vocaloid}} voice bank Oliver was a 13-year-old boy, and the voice provider for Kaai Yuki was a grade school-aged girl.
191* Because anyone can make one, there are Music/{{UTAU}} voice banks recorded by kids. Notably Kasane Teto's voice provider was only fifteen when she recorded Teto's first voice bank. [[OlderThanTheyLook Though Teto is technically supposed to be 31]].
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195* Both ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}'' and the recent revival of ''Theatre/ByeByeBirdie'' had real teens playing the teen characters. Ditto for certain stage productions of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', notably those by real high school theatre departments.
196* Amy Nuttall was 16 when playing Christine in ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' on the West End, and to date is the youngest leading actress ever featured in the London production. Christine is almost always played by an actress in her mid- to late 20s, because most younger singers don't have the training needed for the demanding numbers.
197* The cast of ''Theatre/{{Newsies}}''. Creator/NeilPatrickHarris made a joke at the Tonys about the "hyper-acrobatic 35-year-old 15-year-olds" in the show.
198* The 1991 Broadway production of ''Theatre/TheSecretGarden'' cast then 11-year-old Daisy Eagan, the youngest female recipient of a Tony Award, as 10-year-old Mary Lennox.
199* ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen'' made headlines for casting 16-year-old Andrew Barth Feldman in the highly demanding role of the 17-year-old title character. (The first person to play the role was 23 year old Ben Platt, who won a Tony award for his performance.)
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203* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'': Willy Beamish was voiced by Michael Zibelman, and it's his ''{{on|eBookAuthor}}ly'' [[OneBookAuthor acting credit]].
204* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', Victoria F. Stein is a mage with [[OlderThanTheyLook the appearance of a child]]. Fittingly, she's voiced in Japanese by Kanon Tani, who was an actual child at the time of recording. On the other hand, the English dub [[DawsonCasting avoids this]] by having her English voice provided by Creator/CarrieSavage.
205* In ''VideoGame/TheCluefinders'' games, actual children voice all the characters. This makes it a little jarring in ''The Incredible Toy Store Adventure'' when they're suddenly voiced by completely different people, as the previous voice actors no longer sounded like children who were ten and eleven.
206* In ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'', nine-year-olds Emma and Alice are voiced and portrayed by child actress Audrey Boustani, who was around the same age as her characters, as her [[OneBookAuthor sole acting credit]].
207* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': Little Lily is described as "barely four or five years old", and her ''[[UpdatedReRelease Final Cut]]'' voice actor Honor Davis-Pye was about 11 during production.
208* In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII The Onion Knight]], a KidHero who's explicitly the youngest of the heroes (which puts him at fifteen or younger) was voiced by 19-year-old Aaron Spann. He also had previously voiced Joshua in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', who's fifteen [[spoiler:at least in appearance]].
209* 10-year-old Atreus from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' is voiced by the then 13-year-old Sunny Suljic. The sequel, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', is set three years later, with Suljic's voice deepening and Atreus now visibly older to match.
210* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
211** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', fourteen-year-old Sora was voiced by 14-year-old actor Creator/HaleyJoelOsment. When ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' was released five years later, Osment's voice had deepened, but Sora also had aged enough between games to justify the lower pitch. All in all, a rare VA example of both actor and character experiencing a puberty voice change. However, while ''[[VideoGameRemake Re:]][[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' [[ImmediateSequel takes place right where the first game ends]], it came out after ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Osment still voiced Sora in this game and sounds pretty much the same as he did in ''KHII'', [[VocalDissonance thus sounding too deep to many players]].
212** 14-year-old Kairi's voice actress Creator/HaydenPanettiere was almost 13 at the time of ''Kingdom Hearts''[='=]s release, and 16 when she voiced her as a 15-year-old in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. The former is a rare example of a child actor being even younger than the character they're voicing.
213** Physically 14/15-year-old Xion was appropriately voiced by a then 15-year-old Creator/AlysonStoner In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2''. Stoner returned to voice her in her other appearances as well as [[TheOtherDarrin replacing Panettiere as Kairi]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.
214* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': When Nunu & Willump got their Visual and Gameplay Update in 2018, Nunu was recast to child actor Lucas Jaye, who was 11 when he recorded for Nunu.
215* ''Franchise/LifeIsStrange'':
216** 9-year-old Daniel Diaz from ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'' is voiced by Roman George, who was in his early teens at the time.
217** Chandler Mantione, who voiced 9-year-old Chris Eriksen in both ''[=LIS2=]'' and the side-game ''VideoGame/TheAwesomeAdventuresOfCaptainSpirit'', was also close in age to his character. Amusingly, his genuine youth meant that his voice deepened noticeably in the relatively short period between recording for both games, while all of his character's scenes are meant to take place ''on the same day''.
218* In many ''VideoGame/LivingBooks'' CD-ROM games, kid characters were voiced by actual children.
219* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' game for the Sega CD, ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', 15-year-old protagonist Alex is actually voiced by a then ''preteen'' Ashley Parker Angel. For the first remake, ''Silver Star Story'', Creator/WorkingDesigns, the series publisher, considered replacing Angel because he hit puberty but ended up calling him back in anyway, feeling that this "new" Alex was a bit more "grown-up" than the original.
220* The first ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' game had [=MegaMan=] Volnutt voiced by the 14-year-old Corey Sevier, but in the second game, [[TheOtherDarrin the role was given to]] Creator/SusanRoman (who voiced Mayor Amelia in the first game). Cue players wondering why [=Mega Man=] suddenly sounded younger between games.
221* In the Disney PC game ''VideoGame/NightmareNed'', 10-year-old Ned Needlemeyer was voiced by then 10-year-old Courtland Mead, known for other Disney roles such as Gus Griswold from the show ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''.
222* In ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'', the 13-year-old KidHero Oliver is voiced by the 10-year-old Adam Wilson.
223* Laura in ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' was voiced by the eight-year-old Jacquelyn Breckenridge. She wasn't told about the dark nature of the game she was voicing for, of course.
224* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
225** The games originally played this trope straight with eight-year-old Tails, who was voiced by the then-teen Corey Bringas in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'' and his younger brother Connor in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. William Corkery voiced Tails in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance3'', with other cast members stating Corkery was around 10 at the time he recorded his lines for ''Heroes''. He's then been voiced [[CrossdressingVoices by women]] from 2005's ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' on.
226** This was also present in Japanese, where Tails was voiced by then-8-year old Kazuki Hayashi in ''Sonic Adventure'' and was replaced by Atsuki Murata in ''Shuffle'' and ''Adventure 2''. Creator/RyoHirohashi would assume the role starting in ''Heroes'' and is still currently voicing Tails [[VideoGameLongRunners to this day]].
227** In addition to Tails in ''Heroes'', William Corkery's older sister Emily Corkery provided the voice for six-year-old Charmy Bee, being about 13 at the time. He has since been voiced by adult female voice actors from ''Shadow the Hedgehog'' on; this has always been the case for him in Japanese.
228* {{Zigzagged}} in ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour The Walking Dead: The Final Season]]'', which is set in a former school a few years after the apocalypse, with most of the primary characters being somewhere in their teens. One of the voice actors was actually a child: 14-year old Zaire Hampton as 12-year-old Tennessee. However, the next-youngest VA was in her early twenties, and many of the others were in their thirties and forties. Notably, 5-year-old AJ (the only ''really'' young kid in the ensemble) was voiced by 25-year-old [[CrossDressingVoices Tayla Parx]].
229* In the English version of ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'', 14-year-old Leo Stenbuck was voiced by the then 14-year-old Remy Le Boeuf. In another rare VA example of an actor aging with the character, similar to the ''Kingdom Hearts'' example above with Sora, two years passed both in-universe and out between the release of the first game and its sequel, ''The 2nd Runner'', that Le Boeuf, having gone through puberty and his voice deepened, was able to reprise his role as the now 16-year-old Leo. Interestingly enough, this is averted ''hard'' by both of his Japanese actors, Hiroki Shimowada and Creator/KenichiSuzumura, who was 24 and 28-years-old at the time of recording the role for their respective games.
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233* ''WebAnimation/TheCyanideAndHappinessShow'': In one of the shorts, the baby [[https://twitter.com/daveexplosm/status/124800571295900057 was voiced by]] the son of Dave [=McElfatrick=], one of the contributors to the ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' strips.
234* In ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', all of the contestants except for the Announcer were voiced by Creator/TheHuangTwins themselves, with both starting at the age of 12.
235** And in “WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIslandAgain”, Geletain was voiced by Graham Taylor at the age of 11.
236** This series would inspire many more ObjectShows to set on, with many contestants being voiced by young children.
237* Theta from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', while an A.I., has the personality of a child. He is voiced by J.D. Burns, the young son of series creator Burnie Burns.
238%%* All of the kids from WebAnimation/Battle ForWoodland Island are voiced by Creator/Carly Garton. %% How old is Carly Garton?
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242* Mashiro Kurata is the unique casting exception in ''Anime/BangDream'', a multimedia franchise with a cast of teenage high school girls voiced and performed in real-life live rock concerts by women in their 20's and 30's. Her actress Amane Shindou was 15 years old when the character was first introduced in the mobile game ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' in 2019.
243* In the ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' audio drama adaptation, the toddler Wen Yuan is voiced by Yu Shuhan, who was two years old at the time of the recording.
244* Incredibly, Maria Callas began her opera career at the age of 15, as the leading lady in ''Cavallera rusticana'', which is about a young, knocked-up village girl, probably about 15-16. Since it requires performers who can sing over an orchestra, this trope doesn't have many opera exceptions, folks.
245* This one is in "Other" because it derives from Theatre, Live-Action Film, ''and'' Television: Creator/PattyDuke in three separate productions of ''The Miracle Worker''. Duke was able to play Helen Keller on Broadway well into her teens, and played her again in the 1962 film adaptation, partly because she was very small: even in adulthood she has never grown taller than five feet. Her height presented a particular challenge to the producers of the 1979 TV remake, in which she played Annie Sullivan, because she was cast opposite fifteen-year-old Melissa Gilbert -- confronting audiences with a seven-year-old Helen Keller who was taller than her teacher.
246* The Full Cast Audio book recordings, which was founded by Bruce Coville, ''always'' uses age-appropriate voice actors for every book they record.
247* In the notorious "Music/{{Friday}}" video, 13-year-old Rebecca Black and her real-life friends (who are presumably in the 12-14 range) play characters who are at least 16, as ''one of them is driving a car''. This has been observed and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in many parodies.
248* In the music video for Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s song "Crazy", 17-year-old Creator/AliciaSilverstone and 16-year-old Creator/LivTyler play two students who skip class and go on a road trip together. The fact that this is an exception is surprising because the video is {{fanservice}}-heavy and even features Liv doing a striptease at one point. Not to mention the fact that Liv is lead singer Steven Tyler's ''daughter''.
249* Lots of examples posted on [[http://actualteenadultteen.tumblr.com this tumblr]], with comparison photos of the actors when they were actually teenagers.
250* Inverted with Music/{{Jojo}} in the music video to "Leave (Get Out)". She was only 13 but was pretending to be a 15-17 year old high schooler.
251* In ''WebVideo/TheNutters'', the whole cast were the same age as their characters (sixteen-seventeen).
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