“He’s the American heartthrob who kicked off his acting career on the Disney channel series Austin & Ally.”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
His star began to rise even further after snagging a main role in the ABC series The Fosters.
He then set hearts aflutter starring as Peter Kavinsky in the Netflix film To All The girls I’ve Loved Before and its two sequels.
The actor also earned his superhero movie stripes, starring alongside Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in 2022, Black Adam and has also starred in the likes of Charlie’s Angels and The Recruit.
He also appeared alongside Nicolas Cage in the 2023 satirical comedy dream Scenario.
He has also recently sparked rumours of a potential romance with Zoe Kravitz.
So can you guess who it is?
It’s none other than Noah Centineo, and the actor was spotted in Sydney this week looking completely unrecognisable.
The actor’s raven black hair and matching beard have been swapped out for long flaxen locks and a freshly shorn look.
The 29-year-old cut a casual figure as he was spotted leaving his Sydney hotel on Friday.
He wore a burgundy T-shirt layered over a long-sleeved black skivvy, along with a pair of shorts that finished just above the knee.
Noah completed his dressed-down look with a pair of black Nike sneakers that he wore with a pair of dark blue socks.
Attempting to go incognito, he accessorised with a black beanie pulled down just above his eyebrows and a pair of black sunglasses.
Noah also slung a black backpack over his shoulders and carried an acoustic guitar case as he hit the Sydney streets.
A far cry from his rom-com days, Noah is definitely embracing a tougher, edgier look.
The reason for the transformation? Noah is currently in the middle of filming scenes for the new Street Fighter film.
The Gen Z heartthrob is set to play the role of Ken Masters alongside other major stars including rapper 50 Cent in the film based on the iconic video game franchise.
The Recruit producer-star reportedly replaced Patrick Schwarzenegger in the lead role of Ken Masters, the best friend and rival to Ryu who trained under the same master Gouken, who first appeared in the 1987 Capcom video game.
Noah had to bleach his natural raven locks and shave off his burly beard for Kitao Sakurai’s 2026 film, which commenced principal photography on August 18.
Last month, Deadline reported that Noah has been cast as a younger version of Sylvester Stallone’s Vietnam veteran in Jalmari Helander’s prequel John Rambo, which shoots in Thailand next year.
Last year, the 79-year-old Oscar nominee revealed he would have preferred Ryan Gosling be cast as the younger Rambo.
‘I met him at a dinner and obviously we’re opposites. He’s good-looking – I’m not. That’s how it works,’ Sly recalled on The Tonight Show.
‘But he goes, ‘I was fascinated by Rambo, and I used to go to school dressed as Rambo and people would chase me away and I still didn’t stop.”
It comes after Noah recently sparked romance rumours with Zoe Kravitz, 36, after they left a party together in West Hollywood back in March.
Noah and the Big Little Lies star were seen exiting the same small bar/club around 2:20 a.m.
According to eyewitnesses, the rumoured couple left in the same car.
The pair’s sighting came on the same day her ex-fiancé Channing Tatum, 44, went public with his new romance with Australian model Inka Williams at a pre-Oscars party in Los Angeles, hosted by Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
Kravitz and Centineo refrained from engaging in any PDA and it is unknown if their relationship is romantic or platonic.
The month prior, the two were also seen hanging out in New York City.