Charlie Korsmo

Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo in June 2007
Born	July 20, 1978 (1978-07-20) (age 33) Fargo, North Dakota

Charles Randolph "Charlie" Korsmo (born July 20, 1978) is an American former child actor turned lawyer and political activist.

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 1975), and one younger brother, Joe (born 1982).^[2] Korsmo's acting roles included The Kid/Dick Tracy, Jr. in Dick Tracy; Siggie, the son of Richard Dreyfuss's character, in What About Bob?, and Jack Banning, the son of Peter Pan in the 1991 film Hook. He also had a role in 1998's Can't Hardly Wait. He is also known by his alias Phil Joepott.

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.^[3]

At Yale, he was a member of the Federalist Society, an organization for politically conservative law students.^[4] 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.^[5] Formerly an associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School,^[6] Korsmo is currently a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio.

In May 2011, it was announced that Korsmo had been nominated by President Obama for member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.^[7]

He currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.

Filmography

The handprints of Charlie Korsmo in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.

• Men Don't Leave (1990)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Heat Wave (1990)
• What About Bob? (1991)
• The Doctor (1991)
• Hook (1991)
• Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

References

1. ^ Charlie Korsmo Biography
2. ^ Overview for Charlie Korsmo
3. ^ In-Forum (Yale Law School)
4. ^ Yale Federalist Society website
5. ^ July 2007 Pass List (K-L)
6. ^ Brooklyn Law School Faculty Biography
7. ^ White House Press Announcement

External links

• Charlie Korsmo at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Korsmo, Charlie
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Date of birth	July 20, 1978
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