Charles Randolph Korsmo (born July 20, 1978) is an American former child actor who starred in several major Hollywood films during the early 1990s.
Korsmo was born in Fargo, North Dakota to John Korsmo, a hospital administrator and chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board, and Deborah Ruf, an educational psychologist. 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 the blockbuster smash Dick Tracy; Siggie, the son of Richard Dreyfuss' character, in What About Bob?, and the son of Peter Pan in the 1991 film Hook. He also had a role in 1998's Can't Hardly Wait.
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.
