Noah Centineo

Noah Gregory Centineo ( SEN-tih-NAY-oh; born May 9, 1996) is an American actor. He began his career performing on television, first in roles on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, most notably on Austin & Ally (2011–2012), and later had a breakout role as Jesus Adams Foster in the Freeform drama series The Fosters (2015–2018). He achieved wider recognition by starring in the Netflix romantic comedy films To All the Boys franchise (2018–2021), Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018), and The Perfect Date (2019).

Centineo has since played Atom Smasher in the superhero film Black Adam (2022) and the title role in the Netflix spy adventure series The Recruit (2022–2025).

Early life

Noah Gregory Centineo was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Boca Raton. He is of Italian and Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. He has an older sister. He attended BAK Middle School of the Arts and then Boca Raton Community High School for ninth and tenth grade, and played soccer there. In 2012, he moved to Los Angeles and attended Agoura High School.

Career

In 2009, Centineo starred as the lead in the family film The Gold Retrievers. He had small roles in the Disney Channel sitcoms Austin & Ally, Shake It Up, and Jessie. He co-starred as Jaden Stark in the Disney Channel Original Movie How to Build a Better Boy (2014). In the same year, he was cast as Ben Eastman in the Disney Channel comedy pilot Growing Up and Down, which was not picked up to series.