Charlie Korsmo

Charles Randolph "Charlie" Korsmo (born July 20, 1978) is an American former child actor turned lawyer and political activist. He played Jack Banning, the son of Peter "Banning" Pan in the 1991 film Hook.

Korsmo was born in Fargo, North Dakota, the son of Deborah Ruf, an educational psychologist, and John Korsmo, a hospital administrator and chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board.[1] He was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he attended and graduated from Breck School. He has one older brother, Ted (born 1976), and one younger brother, Joe (born 1983). Korsmo's acting roles included The Kid/Dick Tracy, Jr. in Dick Tracy, and Siggie, the son of Richard Dreyfuss's character, in What About Bob?. He also had a role in 1998's Can't Hardly Wait.

Post-acting career
Korsmo earned a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2002, he began working for the United States Federal Government on missile defense. He has also worked for the Environmental Protection Agency and for the Republican Party in the House of Representatives. He received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2006.

At Yale, he was a member of the Federalist Society, an organization for politically conservative law students. In January 2006, he and other Yale Law students signed an open letter to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter supporting the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. In July 2007, Korsmo passed the New York State Bar exam. Formerly an associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Korsmo is currently a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School.

He currently resides in Huntington Station, New York.