2. Ian Somerhalder
Played A Teen In: Young Americans (2000),
The Rules of Attraction (2002),
The Vampire Diaries (2009-present)
Age: 34
Though he’s played the brooding bad boy of every teen girl’s dreams for years, Ian Somerhalder actually didn’t get his first break until he was way past legal at age 22 in the short-lived teen drama
Young Americans. He went on to play a college student in the edgy
Rules of Attraction and then branched out to more adult roles. The heartthrob, however, returned to the teen genre as the older brother of the main character in
The Vampire Diaries.
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