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Jacob Elordi (born June 26, 1997, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian actor who gained overnight fame for his work in the Netflix romantic comedy The Kissing Booth (2018) and cemented his stardom with the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–26). After those roles established him as a teen heartthrob, Elordi sought to prove himself as a serious actor. He achieved critical acclaim and recognition for his performances working with noted directors in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla (2023), Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (2023), and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025).
Early life
Elordi is the youngest of four children born to Melissa and John Elordi, the latter of whom worked as a housepainter. The family lived in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Jacob Elordi became interested in acting when he was 12 years old. That year he portrayed the Cat in the Hat in his school’s production of Seussical. Elordi played rugby also, but a back injury led him to focus on the stage. He read biographies, watched films, and emulated the style of his favorite actors, drawing inspiration from such stars as Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Heath Ledger.
The Kissing Booth and Euphoria
In 2018 Elordi appeared in his first credited film roles. He had a minor part in the raunchy Australian comedy Swinging Safari and then starred as bad-boy Noah Flynn in The Kissing Booth. The latter, a teen rom-com, was a huge hit, and Elordi literally became famous overnight; after the movie’s midnight release, he awoke to millions of new Instagram followers.
Despite the success of the film, Elordi struggled to land other roles. After completing The Kissing Booth in 2017, he moved to Los Angeles and ended up living out of his car while occasionally sleeping on friends’ couches. However, as he was planning to return to Australia, he was cast in Euphoria. The gritty drama series—which also stars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, and Hunter Schafer—centers on a group of troubled high-school students. The 6-foot 5-inch (1.96-meter) Elordi plays the antihero Nate Jacobs. The first season aired in 2019 and was a huge hit, cementing Elordi’s status as a teen heartthrob. However, in a number of interviews he voiced concerns with this objectification and worried that he would not be accepted as a serious actor.
The popularity of Euphoria led to numerous film roles for Elordi. His credits from 2020 include the comedies 2 Hearts and The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, the latter of which starred Paul Hogan. In 2022 Elordi appeared alongside Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in the mystery-thriller Deep Water. That year he returned for the second season of Euphoria, which became one of the most-watched seasons of an HBO series. During this time Elordi reprised the role of Noah Flynn in The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and The Kissing Booth 3 (2021).
Priscilla, Saltburn, and Frankenstein
In 2023 Elordi gained his first production credit as an executive producer for He Went That Way, a drama inspired by a real-life serial killer; he also acted in the film. Elordi’s next set of roles earned him major critical recognition. That year he starred as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla, which told the story of the rock singer’s courtship of and marriage to Priscilla Presley (played by Cailee Spaeny). Elordi did extensive research on the “King of Rock and Roll,” and his dark and complex performance was praised by critics and Priscilla Presley herself. Later that year Elordi also earned acclaim for his performance in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn. The thriller centers on the relationship between an aristocratic student (Elordi) and his classmate (Barry Keoghan) as they spend the summer at the former’s family estate.
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Continuing to pursue diverse roles, Elordi starred with Richard Gere and Uma Thurman in Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada (2024). The drama, which is based on a novel by Russell Banks, centers on an aging documentarian who years earlier had left the United States for Canada to avoid the Vietnam War draft. The following year Elordi portrayed an Australian prisoner of war who was forced to help build the Burma Railway during World War II in the Amazon Prime series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, an adaptation of a novel by Richard Flanagan.
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He then essayed the role of the Creature, brought to life by the obsessive scientist Victor Frankenstein, in Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel. For his performance, Elordi earned his first Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actor. The following year Elordi starred in the adaptation of another Gothic literary work, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, taking on the role of the brooding, vengeful Heathcliff opposite Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw in Fennell’s retelling of the story. Also in 2026 Elordi returned to Euphoria for the show’s third and final season and starred in Ridley Scott’s postapocalyptic drama The Dog Stars, as a pilot struggling to survive in the wake of a deadly flu pandemic.