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Rambunctious twin boys stay in a lavish lodge the place their single mother is the resident lounge singer — what might go improper?
It seems, loads, as seen within the hijinks and life classes of the Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Zack because the troublemaker and Cody because the rules-follower made for a fantastic comedic foil, and the mix made stars out of Dylan and Cole Sprouse.
Premiering in 2005, the sequence had a number of sturdy comedian pairings. There was the juxtaposition of hard-working Maddie Fitzpatrick (Ashley Tisdale) and ditzy lodge heiress London Tipton (Brenda Tune). Then there was the slapstick comedy of bellhop Esteban and janitor/inventor Arwin. And rounding the whole lot out was lodge supervisor Mr. Moseby, perpetually making an attempt to maintain all of it collectively.
Tune advised EW in 2025 that the forged continues to be in contact “That's the factor about engaged on a present like this. While you develop up collectively, you create bonds which are really eternal,” she stated. “I could not see Phill for 2 years, or the [Sprouse] twins for nevertheless lengthy, however after we see each other, there’ll all the time be a particular bond.”
Learn on to seek out out what The Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody forged has been as much as for the previous twenty years.
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Dylan Sprouse (Zack)
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Dylan Sprouse is one half of the dual duo: the charming, mischievous Zack who is a continuing ache for Mr. Moseby — at the very least when he’s not too busy crushing on Maddie.
To today, Dylan is flattered by the present's impression on a era of followers. “It’s all the time beautiful,” he advised The View. “I feel it’s good to see that individuals are nonetheless connected to one thing nostalgic to them so a few years later.”
Dylan first rose to prominence when he and Cole shared the function of Julian, the unofficially adopted son of Adam Sandler’s Sonny, in Big Daddy (1999).
After spending six years as Zack, culminating in The Suite Life Film (2011), Dylan, an avid gamer, took break day from performing to review at NYU’s Gallatin Faculty, the place he graduated with a level in online game design. He returned to performing for the high-school thriller Dismissed (2017) and landed one other lead function within the romantic drama After We Collided (2020).
In recent times he has appeared within the rom-com Lovely Catastrophe (2023), its sequel Lovely Marriage ceremony (2024), and the action-thriller Aftermath (2024).
Dylan married Hungarian mannequin Barbara Palvin in 2023. The actor additionally has numerous enterprise ventures, together with being a founder and brewer at All-Smart Meadery and co-founder of the high-protein yogurt-like product Thor’s Skyr, together with Terry Crews.
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Cole Sprouse (Cody)
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Cole Sprouse performs Zack’s good twin brother Cody. He’s the uptight one however is commonly coerced into letting unfastened — earlier than inevitably having to restore the injury from Zack’s newest scheme.
“A variety of youngsters's programming match on this golden area in individuals’s childhoods,” Cole advised EW in 2024. “These reveals change into the language, the jokes, the issues that we repeat as we age. They're so necessary. I can quote each SpongeBob episode nonetheless to today, and it’s good to know that we’re included in that.”
Cole started performing together with his brother after they had been nonetheless in diapers, sharing the function of Patrick within the sitcom Grace Under Fire (1993–1998). One half that Cole had all to himself, nevertheless, was Ross’s (David Schwimmer) son Ben in later seasons of Friends (2000–2002).
The brothers collaborated on almost each different mission till they attended NYU collectively whereas taking a break from performing. Cole graduated with a level in archaeology.
Cole’s profession bought a second wind as a darker, edgier, extra artsy model of Jughead in Riverdale (2017–2023), a multi-genre reimagining of the Archie comics. He has additionally landed roles because the romantic lead in main studio releases, together with Five Feet Apart (2019), reverse Haley Lu Richardson, and Lisa Frankenstein (2024) reverse Kathryn Newton.
The youthful Sprouse twin will subsequent seem within the crime thriller The Rivals of Amziah King, alongside Matthew McConaughey and Kurt Russell. The movie premiered at SXSW in March 2025 and hits theaters later this yr.
Throughout his Riverdale tenure, Cole dated his costar Lili Reinhart, who performed Betty. For the final 4 years, he has been in a relationship with Canadian mannequin Ari Fournier.
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Brenda Tune (London)
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Brenda Tune performs the persuasive, ultra-rich, air-headed lodge heiress London Tipton. She had among the present’s finest one-liners, together with unintentionally renaming a gear shift “the PRNDL.” She reprised the Paris Hilton-inspired parody character on The Suite Life on Deck and the franchise’s 2011 characteristic.
“On the finish of the day, I really feel like I might not be sitting on this chair proper now speaking to you if it wasn't for [London],” Tune advised EW in 2025. “That individuals can take pleasure in her even 20 years later is strictly the explanation why we do what we do… I really feel very fortunate to have the ability to painting a personality that individuals hold resonating with although she's so outrageous.”
Along with her time spent on the Disney Channel — which featured visitor appearances on That’s So Raven (2003) and Phil of the Future (2004–2005), amongst others — she discovered big-screen success in Like Mike (2002), alongside Lil’ Bow Wow. As she expanded past her child-star beginnings, she stole a scene or two as Andrew Garfield’s unstable girlfriend within the Oscar-winning movie The Social Community (2010).
As soon as her Tipton days had been over, Tune landed roles on numerous sitcoms, together with Dads (2013–2014) and Dollface (2019–2022). She additionally had a predominant function within the medical drama Pure Genius (2016–2017).
The Sacramento native lately appeared within the indie drama The Final Showgirl (2024), alongside Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis and disregarded her sitcom chops in Netflix’s basketball comedy Running Point (2025–current), starring Kate Hudson.
In 2022, Tune bought engaged to Residence Alone actor Macaulay Culkin, with whom she has two sons.
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Ashley Tisdale (Maddie)
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Ashley Tisdale portrays the sensible, hard-working, and sometimes snarky Tipton sweet counter woman, Maddie.
Tisdale was a daily visitor presence throughout TV for years earlier than breaking out on Suite Life. Earlier than being forged as Maddie, she auditioned for the function of London; as an alternative, she later bought to play a equally snobby, wealthy character: Sharpay within the Excessive Faculty Musical franchise. The function made her a Disney mainstay. She starred within the sequence’ three predominant movies and later landed a by-product, Sharpay’s Fabulous Journey (2011).
“I’m so grateful for that have. I’m so grateful for enjoying these roles,” Tisdale stated. “At the moment in my life that was what I needed to do. I used to be like, ‘I have to be on Disney.’”
After The Suite Life wrapped, she continued her TV profession within the cheerleader comedy Hellcats (2010–2011) and the barbershop sitcom Clipped (2015). On the large display, the actress scored the lead function in Scary Film 5 (2013).
In more moderen years, it’s been Tisdale’s voice doing the heavy lifting. After launching her music profession in 2007 with the gold-certified debut album Headstrong and the 2009 follow-up Responsible Pleasure, she returned to the recording sales space for Signs in 2019. In the meantime, her voice performing work flourished, notably her common gig as large sister Candance on Phineas & Ferb (2006–2015).
Tisdale married musician/composer Christopher French in 2014. They’ve two youngsters.
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Kim Rhodes (Carrie Martin)
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Kim Rhodes performs Carrie, who balances being the resident singer on the bourgeois Tipton Lodge with elevating her twins — and ceaselessly getting them out of hassle — as a single mom.
The shut relationship between Carrie and her sons prolonged to the actress and the 2 actors. In a 2023 interview, she recalled Dylan Sprouse defending her from a impolite joke whereas she was pregnant: “One among my favourite reminiscences is Dylan had a line that was a fats joke, and he simply saved skipping over it… He goes, ‘I might not disrespect any lady that manner, not to mention this lady. You write one thing humorous and I'll say it.’…That’s my little man. They’re each my little males.”
Rhodes made her title in cleaning soap operas, primarily One other World (1996–1999). After Suite Life, she made a handful of visitor appearances on The Suite Life on Deck, however her most distinguished function was outdoors the franchise as Sheriff Jody Mills on Supernatural (2010–2020). In recent times she has additionally appeared on Prison Minds (2018) and the reboot of Kung Fu (2022–2023).
Rhodes married actor Travis Hodges in 2006. They’ve one daughter.
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Phill Lewis (Mr. Moseby)
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Phill Lewis portrays the uptight, ceaselessly agitated lodge supervisor Mr. Moseby, who’s additionally one thing of a surrogate father to Zack, Cody, Maddie, and London particularly.
“I undoubtedly keep up a correspondence with all of the forged members. Brenda might be who I keep up a correspondence with essentially the most. We had such a fantastic relationship on the present and he or she is like my different daughter,” Lewis stated in 2012. “Dylan and Cole, we’re all the time texting one another backwards and forwards and sending one another jokes and humorous photos and all that nice stuff.”
From taking part in the yearbook editor within the traditional darkish comedy Heathers (1988) to appearances in A Totally different World (1988–1989) and Freddy’s Nightmares (1988), Lewis was a daily bit participant all through his early years earlier than touchdown his first lead function within the short-lived sitcom Teech (1991). The high-profile visitor roles continued from there, together with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998), Mad About You (1999), Pals (2003), and as authoritative Principal Tweedy on Lizzie McGuire (2001–2002), which helped him land his Suite Life function.
The veteran actor caught near his Disney roots, reprising Mr. Moseby as supervisor of the SS Tipton in The Suite Life on Deck. He additionally introduced the character again in numerous Disney reveals, together with Wizards of Waverly Place (2009), Hannah Montana (2009), and Jessie (2015).
He’s since stepped into the director’s chair, helming episodes of common sequence like Netflix’s One Day at a Time (2017–2019) and the iCarly reboot (2021–2023), amongst others.
Lewis is married to Megan Benton they usually have two daughters collectively.
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Brian Stepanek (Arwin)
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Few Disney Channel characters are wackier than janitor/inventor Arwin, who will get alongside properly with the twins and is not-so-secretly in love with their mother. The function was memorably dropped at life by veteran character actor Brian Stepanek.
Although he had appeared in the whole lot from The West Wing (2000) to Malcolm in the Middle (2003), this was his breakout sequence common function. Stepanek later filmed a pilot for an Arwin spinoff present that featured Selena Gomez, nevertheless it didn’t make it to sequence.
After all, even non-Zack & Cody viewers most likely know Stepanek’s face. He’s been a ubiquitous presence in commercials and landed bit elements in main motion pictures like Transformers (2007), Ache & Achieve (2013), and Greatest Image winner Inexperienced Guide (2018).
For 3 years, the actor additionally hosted the Disney Channel Games (2006–2008) with the community’s largest stars, together with Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Gomez, the Jonas Brothers, and his Suite Life costars. He returned as Arwin for a handful of The Suite Life on Deck episodesand booked one other recurring half on Young Sheldon (2017–2024).
The Cleveland native has additionally discovered success as a voice actor. He had a number one function in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Daybreak (2014–2018), because the quadruplets’ father, and performed one other Nickelodeon dad in The Loud Home (2016–current) and its live-action spinoff, The Actually Loud Home (2022–2024).
Stepanek and his spouse, Parisa, bought married in 2002. They’ve three youngsters.
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Adrian R’Mante (Esteban)
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Adrian R’Mante offers an uproarious model of bodily comedy because the devoted lodge worker Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez, who all the time strives to do his finest — regardless of his occasional clumsiness.
“Once I bought the scripts, I made a selection,” R’Mante stated on the UCF Podcast. “I made a option to make Esteban joyful even when he was in hassle. I consider that’s what bought me the job as a result of they had been laughing.”
After years of visitor spots, together with episodes of Frasier (2003) and Alias (2005), Suite Life turned his first common gig. Since touchdown therole, R’Mante has appeared in crime dramas CSI (2006–2009), 24 (2007), NCIS: Los Angeles (2015), Hawaii 5-O (2017), and Magnum P.I. (2019). He additionally returned as Esteban for 2 episodes of The Suite Life on Deck.
The Tampa native additionally based the CGTV program, which is designed to assist actors make connections within the business.
In 2018, R’Mante married Mayara Reina, with whom he has two youngsters.
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