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Elordi in 2024
Born	(1997-06-26) 26 June 1997 (age 27) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2015–present

Jacob Elordi (born 26 June 1997) is an Australian actor. After moving to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue an acting career, he gained prominence with his role as Noah Flynn, the bad boy love interest, in Netflix's The Kissing Booth film series (2018–2021). He also became known for his role as troubled high school football player Nate Jacobs in HBO's teen drama series Euphoria (2019–present). In 2023, he starred as Elvis Presley in the biographical film Priscilla and as a wealthy university student in Saltburn, which earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Early life

Elordi was born on 26 June 1997 in Brisbane, Queensland, to a working class family consisting of his parents—Melissa, a stay-at-home mother and one-time cafeteria employee at Elordi's school, and John, a house painter who built the family's house—one older brother, and three older sisters. John immigrated to Australia from the Basque Country at age eight.

While a player on his school's rugby team, Elordi performed in school musicals starting at age 12, starring in productions of Seussical and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and he soon began taking acting classes. He was first inspired to become an actor by Heath Ledger, particularly because of his role in the 2008 film The Dark Knight. He also played Oberon in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At age 14, Elordi started practicing his American accent, modelling it after that of Vin Diesel. He also attempted modelling at his mother's suggestion at age 15, but was told he was too tall to fit into the sample clothes. Elordi attended the private all-boys, Roman Catholic secondary schools of St Kevin's College and St Joseph's College, where he felt "deeply unsettled". According to Elordi, he "barely finished high school".

Throughout secondary school, Elordi continued to play rugby until he broke a bone in his back during a match, which, according to him, pushed him away from athletics and toward acting. He has stated that, after reading Waiting for Godot in a theater class at age 15, acting "became [his] church" and his personality changed as a result. His mother also encouraged him to pursue acting. He was inspired by actors such as Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, Christian Bale, and Ledger and would read their biographies while emulating their behaviours. He later attended an acting school in Melbourne and moved to the United States in 2017 at age 19 to pursue a career in acting.

Career

2018–2022

Elordi's first experience on a Hollywood film set was in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as an extra. His first acting role was on the Australian film Swinging Safari in 2018, playing the role of Rooster. Elordi starred in the Netflix romantic comedy film The Kissing Booth, which premiered in May 2018, as Noah Flynn, a "bad-boy jock" and the film's primary love interest. Despite largely negative critical reception, the film became one of Netflix's most-watched titles in 2018 and brought Elordi to widespread fame.

Elordi reprised the role in the sequels The Kissing Booth 2, which filmed in mid-2019 in Cape Town, and was released in July 2020; and The Kissing Booth 3, which was released on Netflix in August 2021.

Elordi in 2020

After filming was completed for the first Kissing Booth film, Elordi moved to Los Angeles. He helped a friend of his film an audition for a role in Sam Levinson's HBO drama series Euphoria, a remake of the Israeli series of the same name. While occasionally sleeping in his car and couch surfing at friends' houses with little money left and his visa expiring soon, he auditioned for Euphoria himself, with plans for it to be his last audition before moving back home. He was then selected to play Nate Jacobs, a troubled high school football player, whom he portrayed from the show's pilot episode in 2019. Elordi described the character as "a narcissist" and "a sociopath", while Clay Skipper of British GQ referred to the character as an antihero. The role was described by Maanya Sachdeva of The Guardian as an "impressive career pivot" for Elordi and Samantha Bergeson of IndieWire called it his breakout role.

During this time, Elordi also appeared in the 2019 horror anthology film The Mortuary Collection. Elordi then starred in Lance Hool's 2020 romantic drama film 2 Hearts as Chris Gregory, a college student and the film's narrator, opposite Tiera Skovbye. Entertainment Weekly's Maureen Lee Lenker wrote that his performance in the film was "ham-fistedly goofy" while Owen Gleiberman of Variety opined that Elordi was "done no favors by being in" 2 Hearts. He appeared later that year as Paul Hogan's son in the Australian comedy film The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee. In 2022, he starred as Charlie, a piano teacher and one of Ana de Armas's character's lovers, in Adrian Lyne's thriller Deep Water.

2023–present

In 2023, Elordi starred as Ian, a British film actor, in Sean Price Williams' drama film The Sweet East, which premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Williams based Elordi's character in the film on Robert Pattinson following his role in The Twilight Saga. He also starred in the 2023 crime thriller film He Went That Way, adapted from the 1987 Conrad Hilberry novel Luke Karamazov, as Bobby, a 19-year-old serial killer. The film received negative reviews from critics, with Glenn Kenny of The New York Times writing in a review, "Elordi's performance here lacks the discipline he applied to his work in Priscilla and even the wretched Saltburn."

He next portrayed a controlling Elvis Presley in the Sofia Coppola–directed Priscilla Presley biopic Priscilla, which is based on Priscilla's memoir Elvis and Me. Coppola chose Elordi to play the role partially because of his "effect on women" during their first meeting, which she found comparable to Elvis's. Priscilla premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where it was met with positive reception. Gabriella Ferlita of PinkNews stated that Elordi "achieved countless words of praise for his rendition of The King" from critics. His performance was often compared by critics to that of Austin Butler in Elvis (2022). Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote that Elordi "carefully calibrates Elvis's appeal and his pill-addled, domineering presence, his exacting demands and storms of frightening anger [in] a more enlightening take on the man than the one seen in Elvis".

In his final release of 2023, Elordi starred in Emerald Fennell's psychological drama Saltburn as Felix Catton, a wealthy and charismatic British Oxford University student. Critics from Empire, The Detroit News, and the Chicago Sun-Times described it as a star-making role for Elordi, while Nicholas Barber of BBC News described him in the film as "a revelation" and Marshall Shaffer of Slant wrote that his performance was "the secret weapon of Saltburn". For the role, he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

In 2024, Elordi hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live. The episode received mostly negative critical reception for what critics found to be a heavy reliance on jokes about Elordi's attractiveness. Elordi starred in Oh, Canada, a drama film directed by Paul Schrader, in which he played the younger version of Richard Gere's character, an aging documentary filmmaker reminiscing on his life. Critics noted the lack of resemblance between Elordi and Gere, particularly due to Elordi being about half a foot taller than Gere. His second film role that year was in On Swift Horses.

As of 2024, Elordi will next play the lead role in a miniseries adaptation of the novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North; and star as Frankenstein's monster in the Netflix horror film Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	The Kissing Booth	Noah Flynn
	Swinging Safari	Rooster
2019	The Mortuary Collection	Jake Matthews
2020	The Kissing Booth 2	Noah Flynn
	2 Hearts	Chris
	The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee	Chase Hogan
2021	The Kissing Booth 3	Noah Flynn
2022	Deep Water	Charlie De Lisle
2023	The Sweet East	Ian
	He Went That Way	Bobby Falls	Also executive producer
	Saltburn	Felix Catton
	Priscilla	Elvis Presley
2024	Oh, Canada	Young Leonard Fife
	On Swift Horses	Julius	Also executive producer
2025	Frankenstein	Frankenstein's Monster	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019–present	Euphoria	Nate Jacobs	Main role
2024	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Jacob Elordi / Reneé Rapp"
2025	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Dorrigo Evans	Miniseries; post-production

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