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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Amber Raiken

Disney child star looks unrecognizable on Cannes red carpet 32 years after hit film’s debut

Former Disney child star Thora Birch looked all grown up at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Her appearance came 32 years after the release of her hit movie, Hocus Pocus, where she played headstrong eight-year-old Dani Dennison, who successfully escapes from the Sanderson witch sisters in Salem.

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