A Star Is (Recently) Born
Toddlers are big onscreen this year, and few are more in demand than this group. A few tots even have their own entries on Internet Movie Database, the entertainment industry's go-to site for information on films, casts, and crews. Since agents take a 10 to 20 percent slice of most acting fees, the question is, how do babies fare financially? See what some of Hollywood's "it" kids are earning.
Travis, Jack, and Bradley Metcalf
Birthday: January 22, 2007
Upcoming project: According to Jim (2009)
Plot: This season, the boys will play the twin babies of Jim Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith.
Series paycheck: $3,000 to date
Casting notes: To tell her babies apart, mom Kelly Metcalf paints toenails: Bradley’s are blue, Travis’ are white, and Jack’s are green.
Lifetime earnings: $75,000
Nathan and Nicholas Myers
Birthday: March 31, 2006
Upcoming project: Obsessed (February 2009)
Plot: Beyoncé Knowles plays the wife of a man being stalked by a co-worker. The Myers brothers play her son.
Film paycheck: $30,000
Casting notes: The boys, who were discovered in an Escondido, California, shopping mall, landed this role less than a week after signing with Jet Set.
Lifetime earnings: $35,000
McKenzie and Cameron Carr
Birthday: July 12, 2007
Upcoming project: Barry Munday (2008)
Plot: A man is sued for paternity by a woman he doesn’t recall having slept with.
Film paycheck: $3,000 casting notes: These baby girls have appeared in more than 60 episodes of the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful—playing a baby boy, Jack.
Lifetime earnings: $50,000
Nathaniel and Emanuel Ragsdale
Birthday: August 31, 2006
Upcoming project: A Thousand Words (2009)
Plot: Eddie Murphy learns he can say only 1,000 more words before he dies.
Film paycheck: $12,000
Casting notes: Emanuel played a featured role, earning $834 a day; his twin, Nathaniel, was cast as an extra and made $250 a day.
Lifetime earnings: $30,000
