(right), with
Piper Reese at the 2009 Power of Youth event
1993–2012: Early roles as child actor Cole and his brother, Dylan, began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. Much of Sprouse's early career was shared with his brother—some of their earliest roles were shared roles as one baby or child in commercials, television shows, and films. Some notable roles he shared with his brother include the characters of Patrick Kelly in the sitcom
Grace Under Fire from 1993 to 1998, Julian in the 1999 film,
Big Daddy, and young Pistachio Disguisey in 2002's
The Master of Disguise. As he and his brother grew older, they began taking on more roles as separate characters but often still worked on the same projects. Their first role as separate characters in the same production was as kids in a
MADtv sketch. Sprouse portrayed
Cody Martin in the 2005 Disney Channel original series,
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody alongside his brother; he reprised the role in the show's 2008 spinoff,
The Suite Life on Deck and its related film. The series premiered on January 26, 2017. In 2019, Sprouse starred in
Five Feet Apart, a romantic drama which was released in March; he plays a
cystic fibrosis patient who falls in love with a girl with the same disease. It was his second lead role in a major theatrical film, 20 years after his first,
Big Daddy. Sprouse produced and starred in the eight-episode podcast
Borrasca in 2020. The series received a second seven-episode season that was published from September to November 2022. In 2021, he was cast in
Moonshot alongside
Lana Condor. ==Personal life==