Jonathan Lipnicki

Jonathan Lipnicki was the impossibly endearing kid from Jerry Maguire, the one delivering "the human head weighs eight pounds" with bespectacled deadpan, and that image followed him for decades. What I find admirable is how openly he has talked about the hard parts of being a child actor and the awkward transition out of it, refusing to pretend it was all charmed. He reinvented himself partly through martial arts, becoming a serious Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, which says a lot about his discipline. He represents that bittersweet category of former kid stars who grew up grounded, and I always root for those.

Jonathan Lipnicki (born October 22, 1990) is an American actor from Westlake Village, California. He became a child star with memorable roles as the wide-eyed son in Jerry Maguire (1996) and as George Little in the Stuart Little films. He has continued acting into adulthood and is also known as a practitioner and instructor of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Name (English)

Jonathan Lipnicki

Name (Japanese)

ジョナサン・リプニッキ

Reading

じょなさん・りぷにっき

Born

October 22, 1990 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

Origin

Westlake Village, California, United States

Occupation

Actor / Film actor / Television actor

High school

Agoura High School

• Official sitehttps://www.jonathanlipnicki.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jonathanlipnicki/
• Xhttps://x.com/jlipnicki
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Lipnicki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%97%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q523153

Tags

• From California
• Actor
• Film actor
• Television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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