Noah Centineo

Centineo's career started where a lot of young actors' do — Disney Channel. His appearances on *Austin & Ally* between 2011 and 2012 were relatively brief, but they put him in front of a young audience that would later follow him to Netflix (Wikipedia). The more meaningful early credit was *The Fosters*, the Freeform drama where he held a main role from 2015 to 2018 — three years of consistent, character-building television work that don't always get mentioned when people talk about his rise. The real turning point was *To All the Boys I've Loved Before*, the Netflix romantic comedy that premiered August 7, 2018. Centineo played Peter Kavinsky with a kind of effortless likability that the film absolutely needed — there's a scene early on where he's negotiating the fake-dating arrangement with Lara Jean, and it's clear he's playing someone who knows he's charming but isn't entirely sure what to do with that. It worked. The film became a streaming hit, and he followed it almost immediately with *Sierra Burgess Is a Loser* (September 7, 2018) and *The Perfect Date* (2019), all on Netflix. Two sequels — *To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You* (2020) and *To All the Boys: Always and Forever* (2021) — closed out the franchise. Since then, he's been methodically moving toward bigger, louder projects. *Black Adam* (2022) cast him as Atom Smasher, the Albert Rothstein version of the character, in a DC film that — hard to say if it fully landed critically — still gave him a franchise-level platform. *The Recruit* on Netflix, where he plays spy Owen Hendricks and also executive produces, ran through 2025 and showed he could carry a serialized action format. Coming up: Ken Masters in *Street Fighter* (2026) and a role in *John Rambo* (2027), both signaling a full commitment to the action-franchise lane.