Jacob Elordi's best work to watch on OTT: 'Euphoria', 'Saltburn', and more

Jacob Elordi arrived in Hollywood as a teen heartthrob and quietly, almost stubbornly, refused to stay in that lane. In just a few years, he has built a filmography that demonstrates an actor actively seeking out complexity, discomfort, and roles that ask something genuinely difficult of him. Here are six of his best performances and where to find them.

Elordi plays Nate Jacobs, one of the most psychologically complex and genuinely unsettling teen characters in recent television history, a high school athlete whose controlling behaviour and buried secrets make him one of the show's most compelling and most disturbing presences. The role required him to play menace and vulnerability simultaneously, and he pulled it off with a physical intensity and emotional restraint that made Nate impossible to look away from. For anyone who has not yet seen the show that redefined what a teen drama could look and feel like, it is on JioHotstar.

Elordi plays Felix Catton, a golden, effortlessly charming Oxford student who invites a seemingly ordinary classmate into his aristocratic world for a summer that slowly, beautifully, and devastatingly reveals itself to be something else entirely. The role asked him to be magnetic enough that you understand completely why everyone in the film falls under his spell, and he delivers that with an ease that makes the film's eventual revelations land all the harder. Directed by Emerald Fennell, it is on Prime Video and is one of the most talked-about films of recent years.

In Sofia Coppola's intimate portrait of Priscilla Presley's relationship with Elvis, Elordi plays the King not as a legend but as a man, and the result is one of the most quietly chilling performances of his career. He captures the controlling, suffocating nature of the relationship with a stillness and physical authority that makes every scene between him and Cailee Spaeny feel uncomfortably real. It is a bold, deliberately unglamorous take on an iconic figure, and it is streaming on Prime Video.

The film that introduced Elordi to a global audience, 'The Kissing Booth,' follows a teenage girl who falls for her best friend's older brother, with Elordi playing Noah Flynn as the kind of impossibly handsome bad boy with a heart of gold that the genre has always loved. It is a lighter, simpler film than anything else on this list, but it captures something genuinely charming about his early screen presence and the chemistry that made him a star before he had done anything to earn the more serious attention he would later receive. The full trilogy is on Netflix.

A psychological thriller directed by Adrian Lyne, 'Deep Water' follows a married couple in a dangerously open relationship, with Elordi playing a supporting role that showed early signs of his appetite for darker, more morally ambiguous material. The film stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas and uses its suburban setting to build a slow, suffocating dread that suits the story's increasingly disturbing trajectory. For fans of psychological thrillers with a distinctly unsettling atmosphere, it is on Prime Video.

Guillermo del Toro's long-awaited gothic masterpiece gave Elordi one of the most physically and emotionally demanding roles of his career, playing the Creature beneath extensive prosthetics in a performance that earned him the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2026 Critics' Choice Awards. The role required him to convey grief, rage, and a desperate longing for human connection through layers of makeup and transformation, and he pulled it off with a haunting, sympathetic authority that announced him as a genuinely serious heavyweight in the industry. It is on Netflix and is one of the most visually extraordinary films he has been part of.

Based on Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel, this miniseries gave Elordi the rare opportunity to play an Australian character using his native accent, following a surgeon who survives Japanese prisoner of war camps during World War II and spends the rest of his life grappling with the weight of what he endured and the love he left behind. It is his most emotionally expansive performance to date, requiring him to carry an entire wartime epic across multiple timelines with a depth and restraint that the role demanded. Worth seeking out on Sony LiV for anyone who wants to see what he is genuinely capable of.