Jared Kusnitz made his acting debut when he lent his voice in an episode for the 2004 animated series Fatherhood, which was followed by Doll Graveyard in 2005, a horror feature. His succeeding credits include the 2006 comedy series Three Strikes, the 2008 short film The Taste of Summer, the adventure comedy Dance of the Dead, also in 2008, and the comedy crime horror Otis. In 2009, he was cast as Henry Paterson, the eldest son of Bob Saget in the family comedy Surviving Suburbia.