Charlie Korsmo

After completing Hook (1991) at the age of 13, Charlie made an active decision to quit acting because he wanted a normal life away from fame and the pressures of Hollywood. Seven years later, he returned to acting for one final film, Can't Hardly Wait (1998).

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Some of the roles he turned down when he chose to quit acting went to Elijah Wood.

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He accepted a position on the United States government's missile defense team.

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He stated that his performance in Dick Tracy (1990) was his personal favorite.

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He had a 4.0 average in physics at M.I.T.

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On May 31, 2006, he graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree.

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He turned to acting because he was bored in elementary school.

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He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 with a degree in physics.

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Fox studio was offering him 1 million dollars to play the role of Mark Evans in The Good Son (1993), which went to Elijah Wood.

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Korsmo was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation's Board of Trustees.

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He currently serves as a Deputy Domestic Policy Analyst for the Republican Policy Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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He works as a special assistant at the EPA in Washington, D.C.

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He grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

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These days he prefers to be called "Charles" rather than "Charlie."

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His parents divorced in 1989. His father John, a lawyer, never remarried. His mother Deborah Ruf soon married Jim Wittman, the owner of a truck maintenance company. After his mother's remarriage, he now has four step-siblings.

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He is a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching Torts and Land Use Controls.

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Charlie Korsmo has a cameo in Forrest Gump (1994) as the boy on the school bus who covers his face with his left hand as the young Forrest Gump (Michael Humphreys) boards.

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His parents are John, 51, chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board, and Deborah Ruf, 52, an education consultant in Minneapolis. [As of January 2002.].

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Charlie Korsmo is an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, OH.

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Charlie Korsmo has two children with his wife Adrienne Jones: Lilah Nell Korsmo (b. April 17, 2010) and William Korsmo (b. 2012).

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While at Yale Law School, Charlie Korsmo was a member of the Federalist Society, an organization for politically conservative law students.

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Charlie Korsmo has two brothers, John Edward "Ted" Korsmo II (born 1976) and Joseph Ruf "Joe" Korsmo (born 1983). Ted graduated from Breck School in Golden Valley, Minnesota, in 1995 and then earned a BFA in Film/TV Producing and Screenwriting from New York University in 1999. Joe graduated from Breck School in 2001 and then earned a bachelor's degree in Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.

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Charlie Korsmo graduated from Breck School in Golden Valley, Minnesota, in 1996.

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