The Kissing Booth 3 wraps up Netflix's teen romance trilogy by sending Elle to college while Noah heads to Harvard, but Jacob Elordi's Noah spends most of the movie looking like he'd rather be anywhere else. The franchise that launched Elordi's career also became the thing he publicly distanced himself from, and that tension shows in a performance that feels increasingly detached from the material. By the third installment, the chemistry that made the first movie work has curdled into something that feels more obligatory than romantic. The real drama wasn't on screen but in interviews where Elordi made it clear he'd outgrown the booth. | © Netflix
Swinging Safari drops Jacob Elordi into 1970s Australia as Rooster, a teenage surfer caught between his parents' suburban key parties and his own coming-of-age confusion. The film treats the era's sexual revolution as both absurd comedy and genuine social upheaval, with Elordi playing the wide-eyed observer trying to make sense of adult behavior that seems completely unhinged. Director Stephan Elliott throws everything at the screen, from a beached whale subplot to over-the-top period costumes, but the chaos works because it captures how bewildering the world looks when you're seventeen and everyone around you has lost their minds. Elordi holds the center of all that madness with a performance that's equal parts awkward and surprisingly grounded. | © Umbrella Entertainment
Deep Water throws Jacob Elordi into a sensual thriller that feels like it wandered in from a different decade, complete with all the melodrama and questionable choices that implies. He plays Charlie De Lisle, the young lover caught between Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in a marriage so toxic it makes actual poison look refreshing. The movie commits fully to being exactly the kind of sweaty, overwrought mess that audiences either love to hate or hate to love. Elordi gets to smolder and scheme in what amounts to a very expensive soap opera that nobody quite knew what to do with. | © Hulu
The Mortuary Collection builds four horror stories around an old mortuary keeper who loves telling tales to visitors, and Jacob Elordi appears in one segment as a cocky college kid who gets exactly what's coming to him. The anthology format lets each story play with different horror subgenres, from body horror to cosmic punishment, while keeping the whole thing tied together with dark humor. Elordi's segment works because it sets him up as the obvious villain before flipping the script in ways that feel both surprising and earned. The movie never pretends to reinvent horror, but it knows how to make familiar scares feel fresh again. | © RLJE Films
Jacob Elordi takes on the role of the Creature in Frankenstein, bringing unexpected depth to a character often reduced to pure horror. Under Guillermo del Toro’s direction, his performance leans into vulnerability, portraying a being who learns, feels, and suffers rather than simply terrifies. Drawing from Mary Shelley’s original vision, the film frames the Creature as a tragic figure, more victim than monster. It’s a restrained, emotionally charged turn that pushes Elordi further into serious territory. | © Netflix
The Kissing Booth turned Jacob Elordi into Noah Flynn for the first time, the bad boy with a motorcycle who falls for his best friend's little sister. The Netflix rom-com follows every single teen movie rule you expect, then doubles down on them with zero shame about being exactly what it is. Elordi plays the leather jacket archetype so straight that it somehow works, giving viewers the kind of wish-fulfilment romance that spawned two sequels and countless TikTok thirst traps. The movie knows it's ridiculous and commits to that ridiculousness completely. | © Netflix
In Saltburn, Jacob Elordi plays Felix Catton as an effortlessly charming, privileged Oxford golden boy rather than a calculated sociopath. His magnetism feels natural, not strategic – he draws people in without trying. Felix’s kindness often seems genuine, but it’s shaped by a life of wealth and ease, which can make him come across as careless or unintentionally cruel. Director Emerald Fennell presents him through Oliver’s obsessive perspective, turning Felix into more of a fantasy than a fully knowable person. | © Amazon MGM Studios
Priscilla strips away the Vegas glitter to show what happened behind closed doors at Graceland, with Jacob Elordi playing Elvis Presley as a man whose charm came with conditions. Sofia Coppola frames the story from Priscilla's perspective, turning the King of Rock and Roll into something more complicated and uncomfortable than most biopics would dare. Elordi captures both the magnetism and the control, showing how someone can be loving and suffocating in the same breath. The movie asks hard questions about power and age gaps that most Elvis stories prefer to ignore. | © A24
Euphoria turns high school into a neon-soaked fever dream where teenagers navigate addiction, identity, and trauma with the visual intensity of a music video. Jacob Elordi plays Nate Jacobs, a violently repressed jock whose toxic masculinity makes him one of television's most unsettling antagonists. The show doesn't shy away from depicting how damaged people damage others, and Elordi's performance captures that cycle with uncomfortable authenticity. His Nate feels dangerous precisely because his rage stems from self-hatred he can never acknowledge. | © HBO
Jacob Elordi went from teenage heartthrob to one of the most talked-about actors of his generation in what felt like no time at all. These are the roles that got him there.
