Noah Gregory Centineo ( born May 9, 1996) is an American actor. He began his career performing on television and had a main role in the television series The Fosters from 2015 to 2018. He achieved wider recognition by starring in the Netflix romantic comedy films To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018), Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018), and The Perfect Date (2019). In 2022, Centineo played Atom Smasher in the superhero film Black Adam and starred in the Netflix spy-adventure series The Recruit. Noah Gregory Centineo was born and raised in Boca Raton, Florida.[3] He is of half Italian and half Dutch 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. 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 and Shake It Up. 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. In 2015, Centineo was cast in the main role of Jesus Adams Foster in Freeform's drama series The Fosters where the character was previously portrayed by Jake T. Austin in season 1-2. He made his first appearance in season three's episode "Lucky", which aired on August 17, 2015. In 2017, he was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer TV Star: Male for his performance. In 2017, Centineo starred as Hawk Carter in go90's teen drama-thriller series Tagged which ended in 2018. He portrayed surfer/artist Johnny Sanders Jr. in the coming-of-age romantic comedy SPF-18. Also that year he appeared as Camila Cabello's love interest in the music video for her single "Havana." Centineo starred in the teen comedy Netflix original To All the Boys film series. In the first film he was Peter Kavinsky in the adaptation of Jenny Han's romance novel To All the Boys I've Loved Before. He received positive reviews and became a teen idol. He also starred as Jamey in Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and as Lance in Swiped. In 2019, he played the lead role of Brooks Rattigan in another Netflix romantic comedy film, The Perfect Date, which was released in April. He had a supporting part in the reboot of Charlie's Angels, which was released in November 2019. In 2020, he returned as Peter Kavinsky in the sequel To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. He also returned as Peter Kavinsky in To All the Boys: Always and Forever on Netflix on February 12, 2021. He was set to play He-Man in Masters of the Universe, a film based on the franchise of the same name to be released by Sony Pictures, but in April 2021 he dropped out of the film. Centineo appeared in the DCEU movie Black Adam playing Albert Rothstein / Atom Smasher. It was announced that he is negotiating for a role in a GameStop short squeeze movie. Centineo starred in and executive produced the Netflix spy-adventure series The Recruit, released in December 2022.