Sentence examples for child roles from inspiring English sources

Always small and very thin she played the child roles in school plays.

She played child roles in community theater until having to kiss a boy in "Junior Miss" became too embarrassing to bear.

Miss McCarty spent most of her formative years with her teeth in braces and her eyes behind hornrimmed glasses, playing child roles with Jane Withers & Shirley Temple.

The child roles that Pickford played weren't silent simperers either, they were mostly working-class, either street urchins or bonny farm kids who threw punches and tumbled out of trees.

MGM tried to cast her as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, a part that might have eased her transition out of child roles, but studio boss Darryl Zanuck didn't care to release her from her contract.

Cannily chosen child roles, playing opposite the likes of Nicolas Cage, and a spell as cocksure charmer Tony in TV's racy teen drama Skins, have seen Grant's co-star with the uncool pudding bowl haircut effortlessly blossom into the lithe Adonis who takes Colin Firth skinny-dipping in A Single Man.

The influence of generation (grandparent, parent, child), role (grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, daughter, son), and ethnic background were considered.

(Each child role, like the title part in "Matilda," is played in rotation by three or four performers).

"The Golden Child" Role: Sardo Numspa (1986).

We shared the middle child role quite nicely.

Then the teacher and child role-play what happens next, using dolls and speaking for them.