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• Ribeiro broke out as a child dancer, even showing off his talents on Broadway.
  — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
• Hung was born in Hong Kong and moved to the United States as a child.
  — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 29 June 2026
• But that’s always the question—because every human being starts out as a child, a sketched promise.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 July 2026
• Wallace was born in England and moved with her family to Australia as a child.
  — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
• Notably, Messi had a growth deficiency as a child, for which he was treated.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
• Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston aboard a slave ship.
  — Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026
• Cynthia Brown first heard about the terror of 1898 as a child in the mid-nineteen-sixties.
  — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
• Getting stuck upside down on Thor’s Swinging Hammer ride as a child left an indelible mark.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
• After his own vision was corrected as a child, an encounter with a child his age in Cairo — living a starkly different life — sparked a lifelong mission to help others see.
  — Ashoka, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• McConnell’s health history and recent health setbacks The former Senate leader suffered from polio as a child.
  — Gabrielle Banks, USA Today, 10 July 2026
• John's best friend, however, is the eponymous talking teddy bear (voiced by the film's director, Seth MacFarlane), whom John wished to life as a child.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
• The Full House alum got her first major role as a child actor, playing Carrie Brady on Days of Our Lives from 1982 to 1986.
  — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026
• Zendaya began her career as a child actor on Disney Channel shows like Shake It Up and Good Luck Charlie in the early 2010s.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
• The Speed actor met Hollinger — who raced motorcycles as a child until age 34, eventually launching his own custom-bike building business — in 2009, when Reeves commissioned Hollinger to build a bike for him.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
• Long before acting became his profession, Hopkins was studying piano as a child in Port Talbot, Wales, performing Beethoven and Chopin by elementary school and improvising original music by age six.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 10 July 2026
• Following a successful start as a child actor, highlighted by ABC Family's State of Grace, Whitman landed a recurring role as Egg (sorry, Ann) on the cult hit Arrested Development.
  — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026