Many people can point to a pivotal moment in their lives that sent them on a path toward their destinies. For Noah Schnapp, that moment came when he was in kindergarten. As Schnaap told the Scarsdale Inquirer, he was bit by the acting bug after his parents took him to see "Annie" on Broadway. "I came out crying because I wanted to be on that stage," he recalled. In a separate interview with Status Magazine, the future star shared, "I wanted to be in front of the audience and not be one of the audience."
Realizing that their son was a born performer, Schnapp's parents enrolled him in a local acting program. "I loved making up a whole make-believe world," Scnhapp told the Scarsdale Inquirer. When the youngster's acting coach referred him to a talent agency, however, the aspiring young actor suddenly turned pro — although stardom didn't happen overnight. "We went for a year auditioning maybe four times a week, and not getting anything," said Schnaap's father, Mitchell Schnapp. Then, in 2014, he received his big break when he was cast in Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies," about as major a role as a child actor could ever hope to nab.
"My parents are not into this at all, so it's kind of weird how it happened," Schnapp mused of the showbiz success he managed to achieve at a ridiculously young age.
