Rom-com’s go-to guy
NOAH Centineo is an overnight sensation. Within hours of the actor’s Aug. 17 Netflix debut in the rom-com “To All the Boys I’ve
Loved Before,” the 22-year-old’s Instagram picked up a cool 2 million followers. As his “Boys” character Peter Kavinsky would say, “whoa whoa whoa.”
Centineo has another Netflix rom-com, “Sierra Burgess Is a
Loser,” dropping Friday. Co-starring Shannon Purser (Barb from “Stranger Things”), it’s a modern retelling of “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
Get to know Centineo better with these quick facts. He’s actually been acting for ages
Centineo isn’t new to on-camera work. He previously starred in Freeform’s “The Fosters” and once had a recurring role as a dreamboat crush named Dallas on the Disney Channel series “Austin & Ally.” He’s got serious moves He appeared in the music video for the hot song of last summer,
starring in Camila Cabello’s “Havana” as a guy who catches Cabello’s eye and dances into her heart. He loves having a celeb doppelganger
Centineo looks a lot like actor/director Mark Ruffalo. “Ever since I can really remember auditioning in LA, people — even if I was too inexperienced — they’d be like, ‘Yeah, you’re a little green, but you remind us of Mark Ruffalo,’ ” Centineo told Vulture. “And I think it’s great.” His facial scar is from a dog attack
Centineo was just 6 when a pet Mastiff mauled his chin. “[The dog] ripped a hole in my face so you could see my teeth, my gums and all the way through to the other side,” he told BuzzFeed. Nevertheless, Centineo still loves dogs. —