Dylan Sprouse
Dylan Sprouse is an actor, born 1992.
Dylan Sprouse was born in Arezzo, Tuscany in 1992 and was working in American film as a small child, sharing early roles with his twin brother Cole in Big Daddy and The Astronaut's Wife. Twins are useful to productions for reasons that have nothing to do with talent, and the early credits reflect that.
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody turned the arrangement into a career. Sprouse played Zack Martin, the scheming half of the pair, across the original series, The Suite Life on Deck, The Suite Life Movie and the Disney Channel crossover with Hannah Montana. The show works because the two brothers play a fixed comic contract, one of them running the con and the other absorbing the consequences, and Sprouse is very precise about never letting Zack become malicious. That is a harder line to hold at that age than it looks.
He stepped away for several years and came back into adult commercial cinema rather than prestige. Trevor Matthews in After We Collided led to Travis Maddox in Beautiful Disaster and Beautiful Wedding, romance built for an audience that arrived with the books. The more interesting work sits at the edges: Lucas Ward in Dismissed, a small nasty thriller about a student and a teacher, and the low-budget genre pictures Aftermath, The Duel and Banana Split. He also co-owns a meadery in Brooklyn, which is a more unusual second act than the acting.
Movies (21)
- After We Collided (2020)
- Neglected (2026)
- Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special (2026)
- Big Daddy (1999)
- Beautiful Disaster (2023)
- Aftermath (2024)
- Beautiful Wedding (2024)
- The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
- Diary of a Sex Addict (2001)
- The Curse of Turandot (2021)
- Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
- Snow Buddies (2008)
- Under Fire (2025)
- The Suite Life Movie (2011)
- Banana Split (2018)
- My Fake Boyfriend (2022)
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
- The Duel (2024)
- Dismissed (2017)
- Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana (2009)
- Kung Fu Magoo (2010)
TV (7)
Where to start with Dylan Sprouse
Nostalgia says start at The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and nostalgia is right, but watch it for the comic mechanics rather than the memories. The Zack and Cody double act is tightly constructed, and he is doing the harder half of it.
The Suite Life on Deck is more of the same with a bigger budget and a boat, and Big Daddy is the child-star curiosity that shows how early this all began. For the adult work, Dismissed is the one to actually seek out: a mean little thriller where he plays someone genuinely unpleasant and does not soften it. Beautiful Disaster and After We Collided are the commercial romances and deliver exactly what their audience wants, no more. Banana Split is the closest thing here to a decent indie comedy.