All of Noah Centineo's Biggest Roles, From "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" to "Black Adam"

In 2009, Centineo made his debut as the lead character, Josh Peters, in a film called "The Gold Retrievers." After that, he landed small roles in Disney Channel series like "Austin & Ally" and "Shake It Up" before he starred in an episode of "Jessie" as a jerk named Rick Larkin. It wouldn't be until years later, after his "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" fame, that people would recognize Centineo from his Disney appearances. Some fans already familiar with the actor posted a few photos and clips of his cameos on Twitter, with one tweet reading, "SINCE WHEN IS NOAH CENTINEO ON JESSIE."

Centineo landed his big Disney Channel break in the romantic comedy "How to Build a Better Boy," where he starred as high school jock and love interest Jaden, whom main characters Gabby (China Anne McClain) and Mae (Kelli Berglund) crush on before ultimately deciding to, well, build a better boy (get it?). The cast of the film also includes Matt Shively, Marshall Williams, and "True Jackson, VP" star Ashley Argota Torres. After "How to Build a Better Boy" aired on TV, Centineo was quickly cast in a Disney Channel sitcom titled "Growing Up And Down," but it ended up not being picked up.

Centineo had a great year in 2015. He landed the main role of Jesus Adams Foster in Freeform's drama series "The Fosters," a character who was previously played by Jake T. Austin before the former took over the part after season two. It was at this point that Centineo started getting a lot of attention for his talents. In July 2020, the actor reunited with his "The Fosters" castmates — Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Hayden Byerly, David Lambert, Maia Mitchell, Cierra Ramirez, and Danny Nucci — for a virtual reading of the show's pilot episode for a one-night-only streaming event, per People.

In 2017, Centineo earned some extra IMDb credits with the teen drama-thriller series "T@gged" and "SPF-18," the latter of which he starred in as the character Johnny Sanders Jr. Carson Meyer (who plays Penny Cooper), Bianca A. Santos (who plays Camilla Barnes), and Jackson White (who plays Ash Baker) also joined him in the cast.

Following "The Fosters," Centineo caught his next big break as Lana Condor's heartthrob love interest in "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" — the Netflix blockbuster based on Jenny Han's bestselling books that would later lead to two sequel films. In the movie, Centineo plays the charming Peter Kavinsky opposite of Condor's Lara Jean, but he was almost cast as a totally different character: boy-next-door Josh (played by Israel Broussard). "When we did chemistry reads, I knew I loved Israel and I knew I loved Noah, but I wasn't sure who would play which role," director Susan Johnson told IndieWire in 2018. "I initially was thinking of Noah for Josh, because I thought, 'Oh, he seems like boy next door,' but then once I saw Lana and Noah's chemistry I knew we had to go that direction."

After fans swooned over Centineo in "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," he portrayed yet another handsome love interest in "Sierra Burgess Is a Loser," which also stars Shannon Purser, Kristine Froseth, RJ Cyler, and Loretta Devine. The actor played Jamey, the movie's romantic lead, but the part almost went to "X-Men: Apocalypse" actor Ben Hardy, according to "Sierra Burgess Is a Loser" screenwriter Lindsey Beer. "He had been in one of the producers' other movies and they thought he'd be great for it and they attached him," she previously told Entertainment Tonight. "His schedule ended up not working out, so we had to audition other people." Casting director Tamara-Lee Notcutt revealed that she ended up choosing Centineo for the film because he was "so charismatic" and "very charming."

Centineo's reign in teen rom-coms continued when he starred as ambitious teen app creator Brooks Rattigan in Netflix's "The Perfect Date" alongside Laura Marano, whom he previously worked with on Disney Channel's "Austin & Ally." Of the movie's plot, the actor told IndieWire in 2019, "It's about a young man who's very enterprising and comes from a low income household, and decides to create an app that allows anyone to hire him for a stand-in date. He does this in the hopes of making enough money to get into his dream college, and then hopefully learn who he is in the process."

The highly anticipated "Charlie's Angels" relaunch in 2019 includes a new elite crime-fighting team from the Townsend Agency. Centineo plays a "handsome nerd" character, Langston, who works in software development with Elena (Naomi Scott) and is also the love interest of Jane (Ella Balinska). "He's got a goofy element to him, but he's pretty well-rounded," Centineo previously told POPSUGAR of his character. "He's not goofy when you should be serious. He won't just crack a joke when it shouldn't be there. But he's also not afraid to make fun of certain normal structures. If they're in a business meeting, and Elena messes up, he'll crack jokes at her under the table. But he would never do it to his boss. So he's the right amount of serious, the right amount of goofy. He's the right amount dedicated to his craft."

Freeform's "The Fosters" spinoff, "Good Trouble," marks the return of Centineo's all-grown-up Jesus Adams Foster in episode eight of season one, "Byte Club." In the episode, the actor's character goes to Los Angeles to visit his sister, Mariana, and, of course, gets into some good trouble while there. Centineo reprised his role again in season two, episode 10, "A Very Coterie Christmas," which consists of a giant "The Fosters" reunion with Polo (Stef Foster), Saum (Lena Foster), Byerly (Jude Foster), Lambert (Brandon Foster), and the rest of the family's clan for the holiday special.

Centineo reprised his role as Peter Kavinsky in the Netflix sequel, which picks up with him and Lara Jean (Condor) officially dating — until the latter gets caught up in a love triangle with her new beau and an old crush, John Ambrose McClaren (Jordan Fisher), who reenters her life. On Aug. 17, 2019, ahead of the release of "P.S. I Still Love You" and the last To All the Boys installment, Centineo announced that he was saying goodbye to Netflix's beloved book-to-movie franchise in a tweet that read, "Tonight was my last night as Peter Kavinsky. I hope you all love these last installments as much as we do. Forever grateful for the opportunity to be yours. Thank you Lana, thank you Michael, Thank you Matt, Thank you Netflix, grateful to every person who told this story with us."

For the last time, Centineo played his character Peter Kavinsky in the third and final installment of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before franchise, which follows his and Lara Jean's (Condor)'s last year of high school. The emotional love story brought both fans and author Han closure, and looking back at the leads' casting, the latter previously told POPSUGAR she knew Centineo was perfect for his role based off his chemistry read with his costar. "Everything clicked into place because I think the two of them just have amazing onscreen chemistry," she said. "You just really believe it, and they just really come alive on screen together."

Centineo stars in the Johnson-led DC film as one of the core members of the Justice Society of America, Atom Smasher — a role he was tapped to play in 2020. His character's powers include being able to control his molecular structure by way of manipulating his size, strength, and durability. But in an interview with Screenrant, Centineo noted that his version of Atom Smasher is vastly different from the one in the DC Comics. "In the comic books, he's a fully formed superhero, right? He's an adult. In this movie, though, he's kind of a young man," he said. "He's a young metahuman that gets to, for the first time, take that first step into what it means to be a superhero. He comes from a pedigree of superheroes, and his grandfather was actually a super villain, but not by choice. He was kind of forced into it, and he did rectify it in the end. . . . You get to really see that transitional phase, which I don't think you get to see often."