20 of Our Favorite Teen Roles Played by Full-On Adults

May 29, 2021

Ben Platt (L), Gabrielle Union (C) and Chase Stokes (R) are just a few of the stars who played teens way past when they were that age. | Photo Credits: Angela Weiss/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Piaget and Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012)

Andrew Garfield is the oldest actor so far to play a live action Peter Parker/Spider-Man. | Photo Credit: Jamie Trueblood/Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Peter Parker’s actor, and his Aunt May for that matter, changed ages in each new film franchise. Tobey Maguire was 27 when he played the high-school superhero in 2002 and Tom Holland was 20 when he first appeared in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. But the oldest of the three was Andrew Garfield, who play 17-year-old Peter when he was 29 years old. The actor was born in 1983 while The Amazing Spider-Man premiered in 2012.

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Kevin Studer

Kevin (he/him) is a two-time graduate of Lynn University and has a Creative Writing Master's from American College Dublin. When not writing about pop culture, he is constantly opening his worldview by consuming different types of media and traveling around the globe.
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Kevin Studer

Kevin (he/him) is a two-time graduate of Lynn University and has a Creative Writing Master's from American College Dublin. When not writing about pop culture, he is constantly opening his worldview by consuming different types of media and traveling…