The 'Internet's Boyfriend' Of Hollywood
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Noah Centineo is an actor and model born in Orlando, Florida. Before starting his mainstream acting career in 2015 with the TV series The Fosters, he starred in various movies and Disney TV shows as a child artist. He played minor roles in Disney’s Austin & Ally and Shake It Up and co-starred in Disney’s 2014 movie, How To Build A Better Boy. He got his big break in 2015 with ABC’s family show The Fosters, where he played a leading role.
Noah Centineo shot to fame after starring in The Fosters, but the 2018 Netflix Movie, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, changed the game for him. He became an instant heartthrob among the fans after his role as the charismatic Peter Kavinsky in the Netflix venture, and there has been no looking back ever since.
Noah’s Early Life And Acting Career
Noah Gregory Centineo was born in Orlando, Florida, on May 9, 1996. He received his formal education from BAK Middle School of the Arts, where he attended community theater, this paved his way into local modeling and commercials, as reported by E-News. He went to Boca Raton Community High School for his 8th and 9th-grade studies. His older sister Taylor wanted to pursue a career in modeling, and he tagged along with her to a South Florida talent agency.
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He landed a one-liner role in Disney’s Austin & Ally in 2009, but his role extended from a one-liner to starring in multiple episodes. This was when he realized he had to be in LA full time, so he moved to LA in 2012, along with his mother, as per Failure Before Success, dropping out of the sophomore year at Boca Raton Community High School. He completed his sophomore year at Agoura High School, LA, and stated that he wasn’t able to balance work and school life.
Noah Cetineo appeared in a family movie called The Gold Retrievers in 2009, following which he appeared in Disney’s Austin & Ally and Shake It Up. He went on shuffling through small and supporting roles across Disney and Nickelodeon and played Jaden Stark in the 2014 Disney movie, How To Build A Better Boy. He finally got his big break with the TV show Fosters in 2015, which changed his career trajectory.
How Noah Became 'The Internet’s Boyfriend'
Noah Centineo was almost on the verge of quitting acting before he was offered a role in Fosters. He stepped in for the part of Jesus Adams Foster, replacing Jake T. Austin, as per The Hollywood Reporter. He played the iconic role for three years, from 2015 to 2018 earning praise from critics and audiences alike. He found quite some stardom after this role, but it was just the tip of the iceberg.
Just two months after the final episode of The Fosters aired in 2018, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before premiered on Netflix, and what happened after that can simply be labeled as hysteria. Noah Centineo became an overnight superstar and heartthrob, with audiences swooning over his role as the charming Peter Kavinsky. His Instagram followers skyrocketed from 800,000 to 13.4 million followers overnight, and he became a teen icon.
As if all this hysteria was not enough, his second Netflix movie Sierra Burgess Is a Loser released in the same year, 2018, followed by the coming-of-age movie Swiped. In simple words, the whole year of 2018 belonged to Noah, fetching him worldwide stardom and changing the face of his career. He was labeled as the newest heartthrob of Hollywood, and he assumed the mantle of Internet’s Boyfriend.
Noah’s Fairy Tale Career And Accolades
Post his monstrous success in 2018, Noah Centineo went on to star in the 2019 Teen-comedy The Perfect Date playing the protagonist, Brooks Rattigan. Also, he landed a supporting role in the spy action movie Charlie’s Angels alongside Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott. In TV, he reprised his role as Jesus Adams Foster in Good Trouble, a spin-off series of The Fosters.
In 2020, Noah reprised his role as the charismatic Peter Kavinsky in, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, a direct sequel of 2018’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved. He starred for the third time in the To All The Boys franchise in 2021 with the third installment of To All the Boys: Always and Forever. This added to his already raving popularity, and the name Peter Kavinsky was embedded in his personality. In 2022, Noah bagged another Hollywood biggie, Black Adam, alongside Dwayne Johnson, where he played the role of a superhero called Atom Smasher.
Alongside his commercial success, Noah has also garnered substantial critical acclaim. He got nominated for Teen Choice Awards in 2017 for his role in The Fosters, won the IMDB top 10 breakout stars award in 2018, won MTV Movie & TV Awards for Best Kiss and Best Breakthrough performance for his role in, To All the Boys I've Loved Before and got nominated for Teen Choice Awards for the same. He consecutively won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Movie Star for his role in The Perfect Date and To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You in 2019 and 2020, respectively, as per IMDB.
Noah Centineo, in his short career, has already established himself as a credible actor while cementing his position as Hollywood’s newest heartthrob. He has earned himself commercial and critical success by avoiding being just eye candy on the screen. His stardom might have been achieved overnight, but his career results from a long endearing hustle.
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Source: IMDB, The Hollywood Reporter, Failure Before Success, E-News
