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What The Kid From Jungle 2 Jungle Looks Like Today

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Tim Allen’s loincloth-clad movie son from 1997 grew up to share a scene with Superman and Tom Hanks.

Sam Huntington spent one summer as Mimi-Siku Cromwell, the tribal-raised son who upends Tim Allen’s Manhattan life in Disney’s “Jungle 2 Jungle,” and then quietly did what a lot of ’90s child actors couldn’t: kept working. No burnout, no disappearing act — just a steady climb through film and television that eventually put him across from Kevin Spacey’s villain and Tom Hanks’ cockpit. Two decades later, the guy in the loincloth has a resume that includes a comic-book icon, a werewolf, and a real-life plane crash survivor.

• Huntington played Mimi-Siku Cromwell, Tim Allen’s Amazonian-raised son, in Disney’s 1997 comedy “Jungle 2 Jungle.”
• He landed the role of photographer Jimmy Olsen in Bryan Singer’s 2006 blockbuster “Superman Returns” and married actress-producer Rachel Klein that same year; the couple has two children.
• He starred as werewolf Josh Levison on Syfy’s “Being Human” from 2011 to 2014, recurred on Fox’s “Rosewood” from 2015 to 2017, and played passenger Jeff Kolodjay in Clint Eastwood’s 2016 drama “Sully” opposite Tom Hanks.

Steady Work After the Breakout

Plenty of kid actors from Disney comedies vanish after the check clears. Huntington didn’t. He kept booking film and TV work through his late teens and twenties, building the kind of résumé — the same slow, deliberate climb that other former teen stars have made — that avoided the one-hit-wonder label entirely. The Jungle 2 Jungle role wasn’t a ceiling; it was a starting point.

The Jimmy Olsen Payoff

The bigger break came in 2006, when Huntington landed Jimmy Olsen in Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns” — a role he’d reportedly wanted since childhood. Playing the Daily Planet photographer opposite Brandon Routh’s Man of Steel put him inside one of the decade’s biggest superhero productions. That same year off-screen, he married actress and producer Rachel Klein; the two went on to have two children together.

The Grind of Series Television

Huntington’s next chapter moved him to the small screen, and it wasn’t glamorous. From 2011 to 2014, he starred as Josh Levison, a werewolf wrestling with his condition every full moon, on Syfy’s American remake of “Being Human.” Series TV meant a physically demanding shoot schedule for four straight seasons — a grind Huntington has described as far tougher than a single film role.

Four seasons as a werewolf on “Being Human” — then straight into another network procedural as Mitchie Mendelson on “Rosewood.”

He followed “Being Human” with a recurring role as Mitchie Mendelson on Fox’s medical-procedural “Rosewood,” staying on through the show’s run from 2015 to 2017.

Sharing the Screen with Tom Hanks

In 2016, Huntington landed a part in Clint Eastwood’s “Sully,” playing Jeff Kolodjay, one of the real passengers aboard US Airways Flight 1549. Working alongside Tom Hanks in a based-on-fact drama about the Hudson River landing put Huntington in a very different register than either his Disney comedy or his Syfy werewolf — and it came as he was also starting to move into producing, expanding his footprint beyond acting the way many actors reinvent themselves once the cameras stop rolling on their breakout show.

Between Jimmy Olsen, four seasons of lycanthropy on Syfy, and a seat next to Tom Hanks in a cockpit drama, the kid from “Jungle 2 Jungle” has quietly built one of the more varied résumés of anyone from a mid-’90s Disney comedy — and he’s still adding producing credits to it.