--- name: "Austin Abrams" canonical: "https://film.one/person/austin-abrams" fi1m_id: "austin-abrams" imdb_id: "nm3641002" tmdb_id: 148992 wikidata_id: "Q16156312" roles: ["Actor"] born: "2 September 1996" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 72 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-22T02:07:58.572160+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Austin Abrams ## Identity Austin Abrams - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/austin-abrams - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** austin-abrams - **IMDb ID:** nm3641002 - **TMDB ID:** 148992 - **Wikidata ID:** Q16156312 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Abrams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16156312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3641002/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/148992 Actor. Born 2 September 1996 in Sarasota, Florida, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 2 September 1996, Sarasota, Florida, USA - **Active:** 2019–present - **Also known as:** Austin Noah Abrams - **Frequently works with:** [Josh Brolin](https://film.one/person/josh-brolin.md), [Roy Lee](https://film.one/person/roy-lee.md), [Zach Cregger](https://film.one/person/zach-cregger.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 65 (1), 2020s 76 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 76 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Horror 2, Drama 1, Mystery 1, Science Fiction 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $270m across 1 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Abrams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16156312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3641002/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/148992 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Weapons*](https://film.one/film/weapons.md) (75) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Austin Abrams > Austin Abrams plays frightened men who keep going, and he plays the fear before the courage. A decade of boyfriends and sidekicks taught him to be quick and small; Zach Cregger has now put him out in front, and he holds. Watch Austin Abrams's face in *Resident Evil* (2026) at the moment Bryan does something brave. Another actor would set the jaw. Abrams looks appalled, as if his body had gone ahead without asking him, and that is what makes it convincing. He is frightened from the first reel to the last and he goes forward anyway. That is the whole method, and it is a harder thing to act than courage. He has been at it since childhood: acting lessons from five, theatre from nine, a screen debut in *Ticking Clock* (2011), then a long run of supporting parts. *Gangster Squad* (2013), *The Kings of Summer* (2013), the sidekick Ben in *Paper Towns* (2015), Ron Anderson in *The Walking Dead* (2015–2016). *Euphoria* (2019–2022) got him noticed as Ethan Lewis, and *Chemical Hearts* (2020) and *Do Revenge* (2022) gave him leads. For ten years he was the friend, the boyfriend, the boy at the edge of the frame, and he was good at it, which is partly why nobody looked up. Zach Cregger did. In *Weapons* (2025) Abrams plays James, a thief who keeps ending up in the wrong houses, one chapter in a film told in chapters. It is not a large part and the structure works against him: by the time his turn came we knew the rhythm and were waiting for it. But he is quick and funny in it, alongside Josh Brolin, with whom he has now made two films, and he took the job for its director rather than its size. "I just wanted to do Weapons," he said afterwards. Cregger repaid him by making him the whole of *Resident Evil*: a medical courier, one parcel, one night, 90 minutes. Abrams carries it. He makes bad decisions at speed, he runs out of things, and when he finally does something heroic the audience we saw it with laughed and cheered on the same breath. So did we, and it caught us out; we had not expected to mind this much what happened to a man delivering a box. What he cannot do we do not yet know, because he has not been asked. Both Cregger films run on panic, and Abrams is good at panic; *Whalefall* (2026), which puts him inside a whale and asks for a sustained physical performance, sounds like more of the same in a smaller room. His habit of playing the joke and the terror in the same moment is rare and useful in horror and may count for less elsewhere. Someone should give him a quiet part in a slow film, make him sit still, and see what is there. We suspect quite a lot. Until then, see him with Cregger, where fear is a virtue and he has plenty. ## Biography Austin Abrams is an American actor. He was born Austin Noah Abrams on 2 September 1996 in Sarasota, Florida. Abrams made his feature film debut in Gangster Squad (2013) and has since appeared in films including The Kings of Summer (2013), Paper Towns (2015), Brad's Status (2017), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), Chemical Hearts (2020), Wolfs (2024) and Weapons (2025), in which he plays James. On television he has played Ron Anderson in The Walking Dead (2015–2016), Ethan Lewis in Euphoria (2019–2022) and Dash in Dash & Lily (2020). In 2023 he won the Rising Star Award at the Sarasota Film Festival for his performance in The Line. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Resident Evil* (2026), Fi1m 77, as Bryan — [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil.md) - *Weapons* (2025), Fi1m 75, as James — [page](https://film.one/film/weapons.md) - *Euphoria* (2019), Fi1m 65, as Ethan Lewis — [page](https://film.one/tv/euphoria.md) ## Complete filmography (36) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Whalefall* (2026), as Jay Gardiner — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/whalefall.md) - *Resident Evil* (2026), as Bryan — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil.md) - *Weapons* (2025), as James — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/weapons.md) - *The Line* (2024), as Gettys O'Brien - *Penelope* (2024), series, as Sam - *Wolfs* (2024), as Kid - *The Starling Girl* (2023), as Ben Taylor - *Do Revenge* (2022), as Max Broussard - *Mosquito* (2022), as Colt Rossdale - *Decadeless* (2021), as Stevo - *Dash & Lily* (2020), series, as Dash - *Youngest* (2020), as Jeremy - *Chemical Hearts* (2020), as Henry Page - *Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark* (2019), as Tommy Milner - *Euphoria* (2019), series, as Ethan Lewis — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/euphoria.md) - *Less than Zero* (2019), as Clay - *Puzzle* (2018), as Gabe - *Dude* (2018), as James Weil - *SMILF* (2017), series, as Casey - *Tragedy Girls* (2017), as Craig Thompson - *Brad's Status* (2017), as Troy Sloan - *We Don't Belong Here* (2017), as Davey - *All Summers End* (2017), as Hunter Gorski - *The Modern Age* (2016), Actor - *This Is Us* (2016), series, as Marc McKeon — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md) - *Sacrifice* (2015), as Tim - *Paper Towns* (2015), as Ben - *Silicon Valley* (2014), series, as The Carver — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md) - *The Americans* (2013), series, as Jackson Barber — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md) - *The Kings of Summer* (2013), as Aaron - *Gangster Squad* (2013), as Pete - *The Inbetweeners* (2012), series, as Todd Cooper - *Jewtopia* (2012), as Young Adam Lipschitz - *Shameless* (2011), series, as Henry McNally — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) - *Ticking Clock* (2011), as James - *The Walking Dead* (2010), series, as Ron Anderson — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-walking-dead.md) ## Gallery - ![Austin Abrams](https://film.one/media/person/8158/gallery-71840838a843.jpg) Austin Abrams — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Austin_Abrams-60123.jpg/1280px-Austin_Abrams-60123.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Austin Abrams](https://film.one/media/person/8158/gallery-8852e7045efa.jpg) Austin Abrams — Image via TMDB - ![Austin Abrams](https://film.one/media/person/8158/gallery-8a9f4a378dae.jpg) Austin Abrams — Image via TMDB - ![Austin Abrams](https://film.one/media/person/8158/gallery-03c837b6886b.jpg) Austin Abrams — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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