11 Jacob Elordi Roles He Played Before Wuthering Heights And Frankenstein

Over the last few years, Jacob Elordi has become one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood.

Hot off his first Academy Award nomination for his performance in Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of Frankenstein, he’s now appearing alongside Margot Robbie as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s much-talked-about interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

The Australian actor first became a household name thanks to his role in Euphoria, and went on to wow Hollywood with performances in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and the headline-grabbing Saltburn.

But before he became an Oscar-nominated A-lister, he had numerous supporting roles in film and TV, many of which we’ve probably completely forgotten about.

Here are 11 of those Jacob Elordi roles you may have forgotten he once played…

Jacob’s first credited film role was in 2018’s Swinging Safari, helmed by Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert director Stephan Elliott.

Starring Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce and Julian McMahon, the 80s-centric movie centres on the excitement a small town in Australia feels after a whale washes up on shore.

Jacob has a minor role as Rooster, a hunky lifeguard in the local town.

Just a year before Euphoria’s debut, Jacob’s first leading role was in Netflix’s 2018 The Kissing Booth.

The Aussie plays bad boy football star Noah Flynn in the film, the love interest of leading lady Joey King’s character.

Despite poor reviews, The Kissing Booth became one of the biggest streaming hits of 2018, later being named that year’s most rewatched film, leading to two more sequels, released in 2020 and 2021.

As it goes, Jacob agreed with the reviewers, controversially calling the Kissing Booth films “ridiculous” and admitting he “didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies”.

In 2019, Jacob appeared in the horror anthology movie The Mortuary Collection.

He played Jake Matthews in Segment 2: Unprotected, a frat boy who, after non-consensually taking off a condom during sex, is cursed with a monstrous pregnancy.

Although the film didn’t make a big impression at the time, The Mortuary Collection found its audience years after release, with horror fans seeking out Jacob’s old work after his impressive turn in Frankenstein.

2 Hearts is a romantic drama that follows the parallel stories of five people, including Jacob’s college student, Chris.

The faith-based film is based on the real-life story of Chris Gregory, who tragically died at 19 and donated his organs to five people, including Jorge Bacardi of the Bacardi Rum dynasty.

While the film was released in 2020 amid Jacob’s post-Euphoria success, it was actually filmed years prior, and was one of the first jobs that Jacob booked after The Kissing Booth.

Jacob was part of an all-star cast in this Amazon Prime original film from 2020.

The meta comedy features Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan playing himself, as he desperately tries to restore his ruined reputation on the eve of being knighted.

In the satirical film, Jacob has a minor role as Chase, Paul’s fictional son, with the cast also including the likes of Chevy Chase, John Cleese and Luke Hemsworth.

The Very Excellent Mr Dundee is also notable for being the late Olivia Newton-John’s last on-screen appearance.

Upon its 2022 release, Deep Water was Jacob’s highest-profile movie project to date.

Co-written by Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, the psychological drama followed a couple, Vic and Melinda (played by Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas), who have an open marriage.

Jacob portrays Charlie, a piano teacher with whom Melinda has an affair, leading to tensions rising between the two men when Ana’s character flaunts her relationship with Charlie in front of her wealthy husband.

Jacob told E! in 2022 that making Deep Water was one of his favourite on-set experiences, enthusing: “I could just sort of linger around and play a small role and you know be involved in a movie that I would really watch and enjoy.”

However, the film received generally poor reviews and is probably best remembered as the place its two leads met before embarking on a very public relationship for nearly a year.

Jacob had a minor role in 2023’s The Sweet East, an experimental film which follows Lillian, a teenage runaway who encounters a rotating cast of wild characters, including neo-nazis, punks, conspiracy theorists and filmmakers.

During her journey, Lillian (played by Talia Ryder) is cast in a film alongside a character referred to as the “nation’s heartthrob”, who is perhaps fittingly played by Jacob.

Jacob was praised by critics for his “charm and charisma” as Ian, the handsome but dim actor. Jeremy O Harris, Ayo Edebiri and Simon appear alongside the Aussie star.

That same year, Jacob appeared in He Went That Way alongside Zachary Quinto. The Oscar nominee played Bobby Falls, a serial killer based on Larry Lee Ranes, who went on a killing spree in the 1960s.

Based on a true story, the film follows the relationship he forms with an animal trainer, who picks up Bobby hitchhiking.

Despite Jacob’s performance being labelled “magnetic” by critics, the film was generally met with poor reviews, and has only a 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Despite being co-written by Paul Schrader, the man behind Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and boasting a cast that includes Richard Gere, Uma Thurman and Michael Imperioli, Oh Canada failed to make much impact with audiences upon its release in 2024.

The film tells the story of Leonard Fife (Richard Gere’s character), an acclaimed documentarian, who, on his deathbed, agrees to turn the cameras around and film himself.

Jacob plays Richard’s character in his younger years and, despite being nearly a foot taller than his more seasoned counterpart, was praised for giving a lived-in performance as a young filmmaker.

Jacob Elordi co-stars with Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulter and Diego Calvo in the understated period drama from 2025.

Set in 1950s post-war America, the film follows two newlyweds whose new family life is disrupted by the arrival of the husband’s brother, played by Jacob, who threatens their stability as he is more interested in gambling and exploring a relationship with his coworker.

Empire claimed that Jacob was “at the peak of his charisma-machine powers, creating off-the-charts tension with every scene partner as well as conveying the depth of Julius’ inner turmoil” in On Swift Horses, though the film itself has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 53%.

The 2025 Australian miniseries The Narrow Road To The Deep North saw Jacob play a doctor who is captured at the Battle of Java and taken to a Burmese work camp under the command of the Japanese imperial army, where he is forced to work on the railway.

Ciarán Hinds plays an older version of the character, Dorringo Evans, while Odessa Young, Simon Evans and Olivia DeJong co-star in the compassionate study of Australians at war.

The show was universally praised, with most critics singling out Jacob’s “intensely moving lead performance”.

While internationally, Jacob’s performance as a soldier in Justin Kurzel’s WWII drama was mostly overshadowed last year by his Oscar-nominated role in Frankenstein, Jacob did win an AACTA Award for his work in it, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe for the harrowing role.

See Jacob Elordi as Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights, in cinemas now. You can also watch his Oscar-nominated performance in Frankenstein on Netflix.