Dylan Sprayberry Biography: Age, Height, Wife Pruette, Actor Career, Teen Wolf Liam, Man of Steel & 2026 Dad Update

Dylan Sprayberry is the child actor who survived becoming a meme, a werewolf, and a husband — in roughly that order. Born Dylan Muse Sprayberry on July 7, 1998 in Houston, Texas, he was three when he booked a PBS public-service spot, thirteen when he played young Clark Kent in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013, $650M+ worldwide), and sixteen when he became Liam Dunbar, the wiry beta of MTV’s Teen Wolf (2014–2017, 48 episodes, S5–S6 regular) — a role whose fandom hysteria, per his own team, “continues to this day” and which he reprised in Teen Wolf: The Movie (Paramount+, Jan 26, 2023).

Then 2025–2026 rewrote the biography faster than any casting call. In 2025 he married actress Pruette Karl — a co-star from Tyler Shields’ Chapter 51 (2025) and the short Despair (2024) — and posted Hawaii honeymoon photos that September. In April 2026 he announced two things at once on Instagram: new music coming “VERY soon,” and “I’M GOING TO BE A DAD!?!?” — with Just Jared confirming the pregnancy on his 28th birthday, July 7, 2026. Between those beats he released two self-produced indie-folk EPs (Home Recordings, Vol. 1 Feb 9, 2025 and Vol. 2 Mar 11, 2025) and, per a July 2026 Parade interview cited on his Wikipedia page, revealed he has been a practicing Scientologist for the past three years after recovering from drug addiction — the kind of detail that reframes a former child star’s quiet seasons as recovery, not irrelevance.

Quick Facts

Related names: Tyler Posey (Scott McCall — wrote the Teen Wolf sequel script, says some cast “on board,” Sept 2025), Holland Roden & Shelley Hennig (Wolf co-stars), Henry Cavill (his older Superman in Man of Steel), Pruette Karl (wife), Tyler Shields (director who cast the couple in Chapter 51), Eugen Merher (director of The Boy That Couldn’t Feel Pain, Student Academy finalist with Dylan as antagonist).

Early Life & Education

Houston supplied the start: West University Elementary, a PBS PSA at age three, then the commercial-print circuit that Texas agencies ran for camera-comfortable kids. The family moved to Los Angeles, where Dylan attended Brighton Hall — the performing-arts school that exists precisely for children shooting series — and his sister Ellery pursued acting alongside him. By ten he had TV bits (iCarly, MADtv, Criminal Minds, a Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union guest run); by thirteen, an audition for young Derek Hale in Teen Wolf S3 came back “too young” — the rejection that positioned him perfectly for the following year’s Liam. In between, Snyder cast him as the Kansas-boy Clark Kent opposite Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner’s Kents, and the $650M box office made his face a before-they-were-famous fixture overnight.

Career Journey

Man of Steel to Teen Wolf Royalty (2013–2017)

Man of Steel (June 2013) cast him as 13-year-old Clark Kent — the tornado-forecourt scene with Costner’s Jonathan Kent remains the clip every Snyder cut re-litigates. MTV then handed him Liam Dunbar: recurring in S4, upgraded to series regular from S5 (premiering June 29, 2015). Liam was the show’s rage-and-loyalty engine — the born-werewolf with anger issues who became the pack’s youngest anchor — and Dylan went to Comic-Con with the cast before the show closed in 2017. The MTV-era fanbase, per his IMDb team’s own bio, generated “hysteria continuing to this day”: the Liam tag still trends whenever casting news breathes.

Post-Wolf Range: Hulu, Horror, Director (2018–2024)

The pivot years built range deliberately. Light as a Feather (Hulu, 2018–2019) made him Henry Richmond, series regular on a supernatural thriller that collected eight Emmy nominations in 2019–2020. Horror became a lane with intent: Malibu Horror Story (2021) — found-footage as Josh Davidson — won Best Horror at LA Film Awards, Malibu Film Festival and NY International Film Awards, plus “Scariest Film” and “Best Feature” at HorrorFest International and Hollywood Blood Horror Festival. Sick (2022, Miramax; Scream-writers’ script, John Hyams directing) premiered at TIFF with Dylan as DJ Cole. Then the left turn: in February 2021 he co-wrote, directed and produced Flower Boy in France — a coming-of-age short about Cypress moving to live with his father — which won Best Drama and Best Narrative Short at the 2021 LA Film Awards. The Boy That Couldn’t Feel Pain (2022, dir. Eugen Merher) cast him against type as the manipulative antagonist and became a Student Academy Awards finalist. Baby Blue (2023) added Hutch to the indie column, and Tyler Shields’ Despair (2024) and Chapter 51 (2025) quietly doubled as the sets where he met his future wife.

The Return and the Rebrand (2023–Present)

Teen Wolf: The Movie (Jan 26, 2023) reunited the cast on Paramount+ — Dylan reprising Liam in a 140-minute continuation that opened the franchise’s afterlife. Since then, Tyler Posey has said he wrote a sequel film and a third-film-or-series idea, telling People (Sept 2025) some original cast are “on board” — Dylan’s name was in every reunion lineup report. Meanwhile the rebrand went personal: two Home Recordings EPs (Feb and Mar 2025) of self-released indie folk, a wife, a baby announcement, and the July 2026 disclosure of three years in Scientology following substance-abuse recovery — a Parade-interview beat his Wikipedia page now carries. In 2026 he’s also on screens as Parker Decker in Going There. The through-line: every quiet stretch since 2017 was building something — recovery, craft, family — not idling.

Career Stats

• Franchise spine: Man of Steel (2013, $650M+ WW) + Teen Wolf (48 eps, S4–S6) + Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023)
• Hulu regular: Light as a Feather (Henry Richmond, 2018–19; show: 8 Emmy noms)
• Horror awards: Malibu Horror Story — 5 festival wins across 3 festivals; Sick — TIFF premiere
• Directing: Flower Boy (2021) — Best Drama + Best Narrative Short, LA Film Awards
• Prestige short: The Boy That Couldn’t Feel Pain — Student Academy Awards finalist
• Music: Home Recordings, Vol. 1 (Feb 9, 2025), Vol. 2 (Mar 11, 2025) — self-released indie folk
• 2026 slate: Going There (Parker Decker); possible Teen Wolf sequel; first child due
• Years active: 2007–present — 31 credits per TMDB

Personal Life

• Wife: Pruette Karl — actress; met via Tyler Shields’ sets (Despair 2024, Chapter 51 2025); married 2025; Hawaii honeymoon Sept 2025
• Child: First baby announced April 2026 (“I’M GOING TO BE A DAD!?!?”), confirmed due July 2026 per Just Jared
• Parents: Carl and Dana Sprayberry; supportive of the Houston-to-Hollywood move
• Sister: Ellery Sprayberry — fellow actor
• Recovery/faith: Three years sober-era Scientology practice revealed July 2026 — he frames the church as post-addiction structure (Parade interview)
• Base: Los Angeles

Dating History and Affairs

• Samantha Logan (2017–2019): The Teen Wolf-era relationship fans still ship-retrospect; Instagram-official Nov 2017, ended amicably ~2019
• Victoria Moroles (briefly linked, ~2017): Co-star proximity rumor era; never confirmed by either
• Pruette Karl (2024–present): Costar-to-wife pipeline — married within roughly a year of meeting on Shields’ sets; expecting their first child in 2026. No affair noise, no split chatter — the rare young-Hollywood stable arc.

Controversies

Scientology disclosure (July 2026): The reveal that he’d spent three years in the church after addiction recovery drew the internet’s usual split — support for the recovery framing, skepticism toward the organization. Dylan presented it as personal structure, not proselytizing; no scandal attaches to the disclosure itself.

Past gossip residue: A 2017-adjacent minor incident circulated in gossip columns during peak Teen Wolf; it never became charges and is treated here as rumor-era residue. None through 2026 in the form of arrests, lawsuits, or professional misconduct. The substance-abuse recovery he disclosed in 2026 is health, not scandal — handled as he framed it.

Awards & Achievements

• $650M+ worldwide — Man of Steel child lead at 13
• Global fandom — Liam Dunbar, S5–S6 regular on a cult MTV flagship + 2023 movie return
• LA Film Awards (2021) — Best Drama + Best Narrative Short for Flower Boy (writer/director/producer)
• Horror festival sweep (2022) — Best Horror x3, Scariest Film, Best Feature for Malibu Horror Story
• Student Academy Awards finalist — The Boy That Couldn’t Feel Pain (2022)
• TIFF premiere — Sick (2022) with Dylan as DJ Cole

Physical Statistics

• Height: 5 ft 7¼ in (1.71 m) per IMDb — earlier 5’5″ figures were never sourced
• Weight: ~165 lbs (75 kg) reported
• Build: Lean-athletic — Muay Thai and climbing maintain the werewolf-adjacent conditioning
• Hair: Brown-black, wears it longer off-screen than the S4 buzz
• Eyes: He has blue eyes that fans remember from the Liam yellow-eyes transformation scenes.
• Training: Muay Thai practitioner; horseback rider

Quotes

“What would you guys say if I told you I am going to be releasing new music VERY soon?? And what would you say if I told I’M GOING TO BE A DAD!?!?”

— Dylan Sprayberry, Instagram pregnancy/music announcement, April 2026 (via Just Jared)

“Acting was not his only passion… after years of constantly honing his craft, Dylan discovered that directing was where several of his projects lived.”— Dylan on the Flower Boy pivot, as framed by his IMDb team bio, 2023

Favorites

• Training: Muay Thai sessions and rock climbing — the off-set regimen
• Music mode: Bedroom-take indie folk, self-released — no label pressure
• Location shoot: France — Flower Boy taught him he could build a set anywhere
• Role itch: The antagonist he played in Boy That Couldn’t Feel Pain — manipulation over heroics

Earnings

Estimated Net Worth (2026): ~$2 million. The stack: a $650M film’s child salary, four seasons of MTV money, Hulu regular pay, indie-horror leads, directing/producing fees, self-released music (small but real), and the Paramount+ movie check. Nothing in the 2025–26 pipeline suggests either a spike or a slide — steady working-actor economics with creator upside.

Interesting Facts

• He originally auditioned for young Derek Hale in Teen Wolf S3 — too young — and got Liam the next year.
• His Man of Steel scene opposite Kevin Costner’s Jonathan Kent is the Snyder-verse’s most re-shared child-actor clip.
• Flower Boy was written with a partner and shot in France — his directorial debut won twice in one night.
• He met his wife on Tyler Shields’ sets — twice — before marrying her in 2025.
• The baby announcement doubled as a music teaser — dad-mode and indie-folk mode launched in one caption.
• His July 7 birthday is now permanently paired with the pregnancy confirmation story (Just Jared, July 7, 2026).
• Three years of Scientology practice followed substance recovery — disclosed on his terms in July 2026.
• He’s part of every Teen Wolf sequel rumor because Posey named him among cast “on board” in Sept 2025.

Did You Know Already?

• The mother’s name is Dana Sprayberry per IMDb — “Lorraine” versions were never sourced.
• Height is 5’7¼” — the 5’5″ figure in older bios was never sourced.
• Light as a Feather earned eight Emmy nominations — his Hulu regular era had real awards adjacent.
• He was a Student Academy Awards finalist — as the villain, not the lead.
• The couple’s first credited project together (Despair, 2024) predates their wedding by about a year.

Social Media Links

• Instagram: @dylansprayberry — the pregnancy/music announcement, honeymoon posts, film promos (primary platform)
• X (Twitter): @dylansprayberry — legacy MTV-era account, still the fandom’s reference handle
• Music: Home Recordings Vol. 1 & 2 — self-released; streaming platforms under Dylan Sprayberry
• IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm2876098 — the most complete career spine, maintained with team input
• Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Sprayberry — carries the 2026 Scientology/Parade citation
• Note: No verified standalone Facebook or YouTube channel — his video presence runs through network and film channels

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Conclusion

Reinvention without erasure defines Dylan Sprayberry: the Superman kid became the werewolf became the horror lead became the director became the indie-folk dad-to-be — each version kept, none apology-toured. If you found this biography helpful, please share it with Dylan Sprayberry fans!