Fans know Iain Armitage as the sweet-faced title star of Young Sheldon — but the former child actor is now a globe-trotting teen!
Armitage, 16, looked all grown up in his latest Instagram post: a pair of pics taken on a recent trip to South Africa.
In the close-up photos, the Big Little Lies star displayed two intricate face paint designs — a colorful pattern on one side, and a black-and-white version on the other.
“🇿🇦 Thank you, Cape Town! Your Table Mountain is one of the best most beautiful places I’ve ever seen,” Armitage captioned his post.
Armitage’s followers raved about the eye-catching images.
“So handsome 😍,” one person wrote.
“Looking good :)),” a second fan declared.
“The South African paint is nice🤩,” another commenter chimed in, with someone else agreeing, “Omg what a beautiful art on beautiful face😍.”
It seems Armitage has been keeping busy since Young Sheldon ended its final season in May 2024.
“I just got my pilot’s license, or my student pilot’s license,” he told People last October.
“I hopefully will get my private [pilot ’s license] when I’m 17,” he continued. Armitage went on to reveal that he’d already taken his grandmother and mother up in the air with him — in fact, he “actually turned 16 with my grandmother in the plane on my 16th birthday.”
“We had a kind of a fun, sort of more subdued celebration in the air,” he explained. “And then right when I touched down, we had a celebration at the airport at Van Nuys, which was so much fun,” he says.
Armitage’s grandma was “surprisingly completely calm and collected” while her grandson was piloting the aircraft, he added.
“I was very, very impressed,” he said.
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