Two And A Half Men child star Angus T Jones, 29, looks shockingly different during rare spotting... a decade after he found religion and left 'filth' show

Two And A Half Men star Angus T Jones looked virtually unrecognizable when he was spotted in Los Angeles over the weekend.

The former child actor, now 29, was glimpsed on Sunday with a bushy brown beard that went some way to obscuring his features.

Angus dramatically quit acting a decade ago after experiencing a religious awakening and denouncing Two And A Half Men as ‘filth.’

Over the past few years he has led a reclusive life in Los Angeles, resurfacing only very infrequently into the public eye.

When he was seen stepping out this week, he cut a casual figure in a loose-fitted grey t-shirt and a turned-back red baseball cap.

Out and about: Two And A Half Men star Angus T Jones looked virtually unrecognizable when he was spotted in Los Angeles over the weekend

Wow: Angus is pictured on Two And A Half Men in 2003 when the show began (left) and this month 20 years later in Los Angeles (right)

Angus was similarly dressed down during another sighting last month, throwing on a black t-shirt over grey shorts that matched his beanie.

He was just nine years old when he first became a national celebrity on the smash hit sitcom Two And A Half men alongside Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen.

During his 10 years on the show, Angus saw Charlie undergo a drug-fueled public flameout that eventually got him fired in 2011 and replaced with Ashton Kutcher.

Around the same time, Angus himself was struggling with the demands of his part, which increasingly included storylines involving drugs and sex.

He confessed in 2012 that he had begun to find the job ‘very awkward,’ noting that ‘I am with these people on set that I have been with since I was 8 years old.’

Onstage at PaleyFest, he expressed his discomfiture with ‘doing the adult thing when I am still not an adult. I mean, I am 18, but I am not an adult.’

By later that year, he was baptized into a Christian ministry called the Forerunner Chronicles and announced that he wanted off his sitcom.

He exhorted viewers of Two And A Half Men to ‘stop watching it and filling your head with filth,’ declaring that he himself was extricating himself from the project in order to avoid ‘contributing to the enemy’s plan.’

Looking back: Angus dramatically quit acting a decade ago after experiencing a religious awakening and denouncing Two And A Half Men as ‘filth’

Out of showbiz: Over the past few years he has led a reclusive life in Los Angeles, resurfacing only very infrequently into the public eye

Keeping it simple: Angus was similarly dressed down during another sighting last month, throwing on a black t-shirt over grey shorts that matched his beanie

Will he?: In 2016 he confessed that filming the Two And A Half Men finale ‘kind of showed me how much I did like it’ and said the ‘door is definitely still open’ for him to act again

Angus headed to the University of Colorado at Boulder and initially majored environmental studies – only to later switch to Jewish studies.

By 2015 he agreed to be on the series finale of Two And A Half Men, and by 2016 his feelings about religion appeared to have morphed even further.

‘Over the last three years I’ve been involved with various faith-based organizations Right now, I’m stepping away from the organizational business-model programs,’ he informed People. ‘I’m interested in seeing where I go without an organization putting a stamp of approval on if I’m good or bad or whatever.’

He confessed that filming the Two And A Half Men finale ‘kind of showed me how much I did like it’ and said the ‘door is definitely still open’ for him to act again.

That year he played a small role on Louis CK’s critically acclaimed miniseries Horace And Pete, but he has no IMDb credits to his name since.