Jacob Elordi

Jacob Elordi is an Australian actor whose career moved quickly from streaming teen romance to prestige television and filmmaker-led drama. Born Jacob Nathaniel Elordi in Brisbane, Queensland, on 26 June 1997, he grew up in Australia before relocating to the United States as acting opportunities expanded. His early screen work included Australian and international productions, but his first wide audience came through Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, where he played Noah Flynn across the film trilogy. The role made him recognizable to a young global audience and established him as a leading man in a franchise built for streaming-era popularity.

Elordi’s decisive shift came with HBO’s Euphoria, in which he played Nate Jacobs, a volatile and psychologically complicated high-school athlete. The series became one of HBO’s defining youth dramas, and Elordi’s performance helped move him beyond heartthrob casting into darker, more character-driven work. The role asked him to balance menace, insecurity, privilege, and emotional repression, and it became a major reason directors began considering him for more demanding material.

In film, Elordi built a varied résumé during the early 2020s. He appeared in Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water, Sean Price Williams’s The Sweet East, and the crime drama He Went That Way, on which he also served as an executive producer. His profile rose sharply in 2023 with two high-visibility performances: Felix Catton in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla. Saltburn used his height and charm as part of a story about class fascination and obsession, while Priscilla required a more controlled interpretation of a heavily mythologized public figure, focused on the private dynamic between Elvis and Priscilla Presley.