Jacob Elordi Early Life
Australian actor Jacob Elordi was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on June 26, 1997. He became well-known overnight for his performance in Netflix’s romantic comedy The Kissing Booth (2018) and cemented his fame with the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–present).
Jacob Elordi was determined to establish himself as a genuine actor even though these parts made him a teenage sensation. He received praise and recognition from critics for his roles in Saltburn and Priscilla, both of which were released in 2023.
Melissa and John Elordi, a house painter, had four children, of which Jacob Elordi is the youngest. The family was based in Brisbane, Australia’s Queensland. At the age of twelve, Jacob Elordi became interested in acting.
He used to study movies, read biographies, and mimic the looks of his favorite performers, taking cues from celebrities like Heath Ledger, Steve McQueen, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Marlon Brando.
In 2018, Jacob Elordi appeared in his first credited motion picture. He played the disobedient Noah Flynn in The Kissing Booth after playing a minor part in the Australian comedy Swinging Safari.
Jacob Elordi became an overnight sensation as the young romantic comedy proved to be a huge hit. He discovered millions of new Instagram followers when he woke up following the movie’s midnight release.
Even though the movie was a hit, Elordi first had trouble landing subsequent parts. He relocated to Los Angeles to focus on his acting career after finishing The Kissing Booth in 2017.
His big break came with HBO’s Euphoria, a gritty drama starring Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, and Hunter Schafer that focused on a group of disturbed high school teenagers. Elordi, who was 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 meters) tall, portrayed the complicated antihero Nate Jacobs.
His reputation as a teen idol was solidified by the first season, which debuted in 2019 and was an enormous hit. But in a number of interviews, Elordi complained about being objectified and voiced concern that he might not be taken seriously as an actor.
Jacob Elordi started getting more movie parts as a result of Euphoria’s success. The comedies 2 Hearts and The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, which starred Paul Hogan, were among his credits in 2020.
Elordi also played Noah Flynn again around this time in The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and The Kissing Booth 3 (2021).
He Went That Way, a drama based on a real-life serial killer in which Elordi appeared, gave him his first production credit as an executive producer in 2023. His acting career took off in that same year. In Sofia Coppola’s biographical movie Priscilla, which chronicles the rock star’s love and marriage to Priscilla Presley (played by Cailee Spaeny), he portrays Elvis Presley. Elordi did a lot of study for “The King of Rock and Roll,” and both critics and Priscilla Presley herself complimented his nuanced and poignant portrayal.
After this achievement, he landed a prominent part in Saltburn, a psychological thriller about the complicated bond between a wealthy student (Elordi) and his classmate (Barry Keoghan) while they spend the summer at the student’s family estate.
Elordi continued to play a variety of parts, starring alongside Richard Gere and Uma Thurman in Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada (2024), which was based on a Russell Banks novel. The drama centers on an elderly documentary filmmaker who left the United States for Canada years ago in order to avoid being recruited into the Vietnam War.
The next year, Elordi made an appearance as an Australian prisoner of war compelled to labor on the Burma Railway’s construction during World War II in the Amazon Prime series The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Richard Flanagan’s critically praised novel served as the inspiration for the series.