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Cole Sprouse

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Cole Mitchell Sprouse was born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy to American parents Melanie (Wright) and Matthew Sprouse, and was raised with his older identical twin Dylan Sprouse in Long Beach, California. Cole began his acting career alongside Dylan at the tender age of six months. From 1993 to 1998 the twins shared the role of Patrick Kelly on ABC's hit series Grace Under Fire (1993), soon booking them as Julian in Adam Sandler's box office hit Big Daddy (2000). That same month, their second feature film, The Astronaut's Wife (1999), starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron, was also released. Cole appeared without his brother on the NBC series Friends (1994), portraying Ross's son Ben Gellar; in the fall of 2003, the brothers again shared a lead role: Jeremiah in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004). After that, Cole began starring alongside his twin in their own half-hour sitcom on the Disney Channel, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005). After wrapping his sixth year of this program, Cole chose to attend NYU and remain absent from entertainment until he finished his college education in 2015, graduating with honors. The graduate soon booked the role of Jughead on Riverdale (2017), becoming a fan favorite, and then starred as Will Newman in the box office hit Five Feet Apart (2019), which was one of the highest-grossing non-genre teen movies of the 2010s.
- IMDb mini biography by: Slim Whitman

Is fifteen minutes younger than his twin, Dylan.
Is an active travel and fashion photographer.
Graduated from Laurel Springs School in June of 2010 and later went on to attend and graduate from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a degree in archaeology.
Worked for Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, California, where he was the official event photographer.
Although born in Italy, is not of Italian descent. Cole's American parents moved back to their native California four months after Dylan and Cole were born. His ancestry is English, Scottish, German, and one eighth Danish.

We both keep a journal, we write every day. I started first and then I convinced Dylan to start his.
When I think about our careers, I don't really look at it as fame and fortune, I look at it as fun. I'd rather have a good time on set, have fun and mess around. And I love fans.
Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real, lived human experiences. I hadn't lived any real human experiences outside of home-school and being in a sound stage, and there was really no other option. I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathetic actor. It doesn't work.
I think regardless of success, all those kids were dealing with a similar dilemma when it came to their maturity and their publicity and fame, and how they were viewed in the public eye. Some people choose sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll to come to terms with it. Some people find religion. [College] seemed like the most productive way to prove to people we were coming into ourselves. I was finding out my identity and growing by going to an institution where I could evolve and become more adept at understanding why I was thinking certain things, and how society viewed me.