Linda Cardellini in ‘Freaks and Geeks’
Like Rizzo in “Grease,” Lindsay from “Freaks and Geeks” needed to display a different maturity level than her peers, so casting 24-year-old Linda Cardellini was a defensible choice. That said, her age did stick out like a sore thumb next to John Francis Daley, who at 14 was actually the right age to play her brother Sam.