1. Jacob Elordi was born on 26 June 1997 and is an Australian actor.
31 Facts About Jacob Elordi
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Jacob Elordi became known for his role as troubled high school football player Nate Jacobs in HBO's teen drama series Euphoria.
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Jacob Elordi was first inspired to become an actor by Heath Ledger, particularly because of his role in the 2008 film The Dark Knight.
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Jacob Elordi played Oberon in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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At age 14, Jacob Elordi started practising his American accent, modelling it after that of Vin Diesel.
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Jacob Elordi attempted modelling at his mother's suggestion at age 15, but was told he was too tall to fit into the sample clothes.
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Jacob 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".
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Jacob Elordi has stated that, after reading Waiting for Godot in a drama class at age 15, acting "became [his] church" and his personality changed as a result.
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Jacob Elordi 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.
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Jacob Elordi later attended an acting school in Melbourne and moved to the United States in 2017 at age 19 to pursue a career in acting.
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Jacob Elordi's first acting role was on the Australian film Swinging Safari in 2018, playing the role of Rooster.
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Jacob 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.
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Jacob 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.
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Jacob Elordi spoke out against his objectification as a result of the films.
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Jacob Elordi 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.
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Jacob Elordi was then selected to play Nate Jacobs, a troubled high school football player with an abusive father, whom he portrayed from the show's pilot episode in 2019.
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Jacob Elordi described the character as "a narcissist" and "a sociopath", while Clay Skipper of British GQ referred to the character as an antihero.
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Jacob 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.
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Entertainment Weeklys Maureen Lee Lenker wrote that his performance in the film was "ham-fistedly goofy" while Owen Gleiberman of Variety opined that Jacob Elordi was "done no favors by being in" 2 Hearts.
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Jacob Elordi appeared later that year as Paul Hogan's son in the Australian comedy film The Very Excellent Mr Dundee.
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In 2023, Jacob 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.
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Jacob Elordi starred in the 2023 crime thriller film Jacob Elordi Went That Way, adapted from the 1987 Conrad Hilberry novel Luke Karamazov, as Bobby, a 19-year-old serial killer.
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Gabriella Ferlita of PinkNews stated that Jacob Elordi "achieved countless words of praise for his rendition of The King" from critics.
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Jacob Elordi's performance was often compared by critics to that of Austin Butler in Elvis.
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Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote that Jacob 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".
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In 2024, Jacob Elordi hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Jacob 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.
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Gabriella Paiella of GQ wrote that Jacob Elordi had "classic, undeniable leading man looks", while Larisha Paul of Rolling Stone called him "Hollywood's reigning heartthrob of the 2020s".
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Jacob Elordi became well known for his height of 1.96 metres.
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Jacob Elordi's relationships, including with Euphoria co-star Zendaya, model Kaia Gerber, The Kissing Booth co-star Joey King, and YouTuber Olivia Jade, received widespread coverage in tabloids and on social media.
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Jacob Elordi was the face of Hugo Boss's Boss the Scent fragrance in January 2022.