Cole Sprouse

Cole Sprouse (birthname: Cole Mitchell Sprouse) grew up in a highly successful child acting career with his identical twin brother-actor, Dylan, and is best known as Cody Martin in 158 episodes of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008) and The Suite Life on Deck (2008-2011), and across 136 episodes of Riverdale (2017-2023), but became his own man as an adult actor.

Cole, with Dylan, launched his feature career—capped with the poster image of one of the Sprouse twins peeing in public alongside star Adam Sandler—in Big Daddy (1999), and continued in twins’ performances in The Astronaut’s Wife (1999) and The Master of Disguise (2002). Sprouse and brother Dylan then reunited with Sandler, playing KB Toy soldiers in

Eight Crazy Nights (2002), co-written and produced by star Sandler. The first serious feature film credit for Sprouse was, again alongside brother Dylan (for the first time playing the older and not younger versions of characters), in Asia Argento’s twisted drama, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004), based on JT LeRoy’s novel, with Marilyn Manson, Peter Fonda, Ornella Muti, Jeremy Renner, and Winona Ryder, and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Cole Sprouse earned his first starring role with Dylan in Sony Pictures’ kid-oriented Mark Twain adaptation, A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper (2007), with Kay Panabaker, Vincent Spano, and Sally Kellerman.

Sprouse’s first adult starring role was in director-producer Justin Baldoni’s Five Feet Apart (2019), with Haley Lu Richardson and Claire Forlani, produced by CBS Films and released by Lionsgate to an outstanding $92.6 million box office. Director-writer-producer Tommy Dorfman cast Sprouse in a co-starring role in the indie drama, I Wish You All the Best (2023), co-starring Alexandra Daddario and Corey Fogelmanis, which premiered at the South by Southwest film festival.

Cole Sprouse’s first movie character in Big Daddy was nicknamed “Frankenstein,” and 25 years later, Sprouse co-starred as Dr. Frankenstein’s Creature in the Zelda Williams-directed and Diablo Cody-written horror-comedy, Lisa Frankenstein (2024), starring Kathryn Newton, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest, and Carla Gugino, and which was released by Focus Features (U.S.) and Universal Pictures (ex-U.S.). Sprouse co-starred with Zachary Levi in the music-themed comedy, Undercover (date to be announced), directed by Steve Pink and produced by Disney-based Mandeville Films.