18 Actors Who Have Played Peter Pan

Girls star Allison Williams will play the titular role opposite Christopher Walken's Captain Hook in Peter Pan Live!, a live television event airing on NBC on Dec. 4, 2014. Click through to see other actors who have portrayed "the boy who wouldn't grow up."

Miller will be making his major film debut in the 2015 fantasy film Pan, playing Peter Pan opposite Hugh Jackman's Blackbeard and Garrett Hedlund's young Captain Hook.  

British actor Robbie Kay played Peter Pan in the ABC fairy-tale series Once Upon a Time, playing a villainous version for part of the show's third season.

The Skyfall star co-starred with Judi Dench in Peter and Alice, a 2013 play which imagined a meeting between Peter Llewelyn Davies and Alice Liddell Hargreaves in 1932 London. Davies inspired J. M. Barrie's main character in Peter Pan, while Hargreaves was Lewis Carroll's muse for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Red Band Society star Charlie Rowe played Peter in the 2011 SyFy fantasy miniseries Neverland, a re-imagining of the Peter Pan story.

In Finding Neverland, the semi-autobiographical 2004 film about Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie, Highmore plays Peter Llewelyn Davis as a young boy who is cared for by Johnny Depp's Barrie and ultimately ends up inspiring the main character in Barrie's most famous work. 

Kelly MacDonald, who voiced heroine Merida in Disney/Pixar's Brave, portrayed another version of Peter Pan in Finding Neverland, the 2004 semi-biographical film about Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie. MacDonald played an actress cast as the lead character in the Peter Pan play featured in the film. 

Sumpter played the title role in 2003's live-action feature Peter Pan, the first authorized and faithful film version of the story since the Disney animated feature 50 years before. The film strayed from prior stage adaptations by casting a young male actor in the role of Peter rather than a female actress. 

Sparks played an androgynous teenage version of Peter Pan in the indie film Neverland, a dark, modern-day adaptation, which also featured Wil Wheaton as John Darling.

Weaver, who grew up performing in a children's theater group called The Peter Pan Players, became the new Disney voice of Peter in 2002, voicing the character in animated films like Return to Never Land as well as at various theme parks. 

In Hook, Steven Spielberg's 1991 fantasy-adventure, Williams starred as Peter Banning, a grown-up Peter Pan who has forgotten his childhood. In the movie, constructed as a sequel to J.M. Barrie's novel Peter and Wendy, Peter must return to Neverland to battle old foe Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) after the pirate kidnaps his children.

The actress best known for playing Peter Pan on stage was Cathy Rigby, who was a twenty-year-old retired gymnast when she was first cast as Peter in 1974. She starred in the musical's 1990 Broadway revival and continued the role in the show's touring company. True to the character's refusal to grow up, Rigby played Peter Pan into her 60s, finally retiring in 2013.   

Marsden might be recognized for his roles on 1990s sitcoms like Boy Meets World and Full House, but he has an extensive voice-acting resume, including voicing the main character on 1990 animated series Peter Pan and the Pirates, which also featured Tim Curry as Captain Hook. 

Stage and television actress Sandy Duncan played Peter from 1979-81 in the Broadway revival of 1954's Peter Pan musical. Duncan was nominated for a Tony Award for best actress in a musical for the role. 

Mary Martin originated the role of Peter in the 1954 Broadway adaptation, a part that earned her a Tony Award. A muse of famed composing duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, Martin also originated the legendary roles of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music. She was also the mother of late Dallas star Larry Hagman.

Child actor Bobby Driscoll, perhaps the most famous Peter of them all, provided the voice and animation model for Walt Disney's animated classic Peter Pan. Driscoll was a Disney favorite after appearing in the producer's first live-action film Song of the South.

Actress Jean Arthur was almost 50 years old when she starred in the first Broadway adaptation of Peter Pan, which featured music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein. (The show would change drastically four years later in the Tony-winning Mary Martin-led production.) Horror legend Boris Karloff co-starred in the musical, which ran for 321 performances, playing George Darling and Captain Hook. 

Silent film star Betty Bronson was selected personally by author J.M. Barrie to play the title character in the 1924 silent adaptation, which marked Peter Pan's first cinematic appearance. Bronson beat out Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson for the role.