They have German ancestry. The boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents’ native Long Beach, California.
Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in Calabasas, California, where their family still lived as of summer 2012.
Although he grew up in the US, Sprouse was actually born in Arezzo, Tuscany, in Italy on August 4, 1992.
His American parents, Melanie Wright and Matthew Sprouse, were in Italy teaching English at the time he and his brother were born.
