---
name: "Drew Starkey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/drew-starkey"
fi1m_id: "drew-starkey"
imdb_id: "nm6481846"
tmdb_id: 1939676
wikidata_id: "Q65012920"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 November 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-23T10:43:01.069568+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."
---

# Drew Starkey

## Identity

Drew Starkey

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/drew-starkey
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** drew-starkey
- **IMDb ID:** nm6481846
- **TMDB ID:** 1939676
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65012920
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Starkey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65012920, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6481846/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1939676

Actor. Born 4 November 1993 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 November 1993, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Also known as:** Joseph Andrew Starkey 
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 61 to 60 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Crime 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $9m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Starkey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65012920, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6481846/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1939676

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Outer Banks*](https://film.one/tv/outer-banks.md) (72)
- **HBO Max:** [*Queer*](https://film.one/film/queer.md) (68)
- **Apple TV:** [*Lucky*](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md) (57)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Drew Starkey

> Drew Starkey's trick is to be looked at and give nothing back. In *Queer* (2024) it made him the still centre of a film about wanting, and it was enough; whether he can do anything else on a cinema screen we have not yet seen.

Watch Drew Starkey take a drink he has been bought. He accepts it, he drinks it, and somewhere in the middle of doing so his eyes go to the door. That is Eugene Allerton in *Queer* (2024), and it is the only thing Luca Guadagnino's Burroughs adaptation asks of him for ninety minutes: to be wanted by Daniel Craig's Lee and to leave open the question of whether he wants anything back. Starkey never answers it. It is a harder job than Craig's, because Craig gets to make a fool of himself and Starkey only gets to watch him do it.

He came to the part by an odd route. From 2014 he was doing small jobs, Garrett in *Love, Simon* (2018), Tommy Matson in *The Devil All the Time* (2020), and then five seasons and 49 episodes as Rafe Cameron, the volatile older brother in *Outer Banks* (2020–2026). We have not reviewed the series, so we will only note that Rafe is loud where Allerton is quiet, and that the same man was cast as both. Guadagnino asked him, in Starkey's own account, 'Can you play hard to read?' Some have found the jump from a teen series to a lead opposite Craig a steep one. We think the casting was the point: a face an audience already knows as dangerous, told to sit still.

The stillness works because it is specific. Starkey does not play mystery in the usual way, all half-smiles and looks held a beat too long; he plays a young man who has learnt that agreeing to everything commits him to nothing. Guadagnino gives him Craig to react to, and Craig, doing the best work of his career, hands him scene after scene. We spent more of *Queer* watching Starkey than Craig, which we had not expected, and we came out slightly uneasy at how little we had learnt about Allerton after all that time in his company. That unease is the performance doing exactly what it was for.

The limit is that we have seen him do one thing well in a cinema. In *Onslaught* (2026), Adam Wingard's small siege film, he plays Cyrus, and he did not stay with us; Adria Arjona holds the door and the film, and Starkey is one of the people behind her. That may be the part rather than the actor. But a face that gives nothing back is a young man's trick, and it stops being interesting once the face is older. *Lucky* (2026) and *King Snake* are on the way. We would like the next one to make him want something out loud, and to see whether he can.

## Biography

Drew Starkey, also credited as Joseph Andrew Starkey, is an American actor. He was born on 4 November 1993 in Asheville, North Carolina.

He graduated from Western Carolina University with a double major in English and theatre performance. Starkey began his career with supporting roles in the films *Love, Simon* (2018) and *The Hate U Give* (2018). He gained wider recognition for playing Rafe Cameron in the Netflix series *Outer Banks* (2020–2026).

His later credits include the role of Eugene Allerton in the film *Queer* (2024) and Cary Masterson in the series *Lucky* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Lucky* (2026), Fi1m 57, as Cary Masterson — [page](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md)
- *Onslaught* (2026), Fi1m 58, as Cyrus — [page](https://film.one/film/onslaught.md)
- *Queer* (2024), Fi1m 68, as Eugene Allerton — [page](https://film.one/film/queer.md)
- *Outer Banks* (2020), Fi1m 72, as Rafe Cameron — [page](https://film.one/tv/outer-banks.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Onslaught* (2026), as Cyrus — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/onslaught.md)
- *Lucky* (2026), series, as Cary Masterson — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md)
- *Queer* (2024), as Eugene Allerton — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/queer.md)
- *The Other Zoey* (2023), as Zack MacLaren
- *Hellraiser* (2022), as Trevor
- *The Terminal List* (2022), series, as Junior Alba
- *VIRGO* (2021), as Jonah
- *Embattled* (2020), as Tanner Van Holt
- *The Devil All the Time* (2020), as Tommy Matson
- *Outer Banks* (2020), series, as Rafe Cameron — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/outer-banks.md)
- *Extended Stay* (2020), as Ricky
- *Limbo* (2020), as Rodney
- *Just Mercy* (2019), as Young Guard
- *The Family Portrait* (2019), as Kevin Brody
- *Mine 9* (2019), as Ryan
- *Doom Patrol* (2019), series, as Tim
- *The Hate U Give* (2018), as Brian MacIntosh
- *American Animals* (2018), as Frat Boy
- *Love, Simon* (2018), as Garrett
- *The Resident* (2018), series, as Young Lawyer
- *Valor* (2017), series, as Bobby
- *Ozark* (2017), series, as Boy — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/ozark.md)
- *Brockmire* (2017), series, as Brad Christie
- *Shots Fired* (2017), series, as Clint Jr.
- *Good Behavior* (2016), series, as Agent Bradfield
- *Up the Hill* (2016), as The Client
- *Love Is the Longest Con* (2016), as Adrian
- *Mercy Street* (2016), series, as Gambling Soldier
- *Bounds* (2015), as Todd
- *Scream: The TV Series* (2015), series, as Hawkins
- *Lost Soles* (2015), as Scott
- *Going in Blind* (2014), as Jake
- *The Radical Notion of Gene Mutation* (2014), as Patrick Clemens
- *Isn't She Lovely* (2014), as Jeremy
- *Deep Cuts*, as Joe Morrow
- *King Snake*, Actor
- *Stan*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Drew Starkey](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-772ac5a1b883.jpg) Drew Starkey — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Drew_Starkey_at_81st_Venice_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Drew starkey (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-f1c8705e428a.jpg) Drew starkey (2023) — Itsyaara, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Drew_Starkey.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Drew Starkey (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-7a23e92b3ede.jpg) Drew Starkey (2023) — Itsyaara, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Drew_from_outer_banks.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Drew Starkey](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-304b646f1381.jpg) Drew Starkey — Image via TMDB
- ![Drew Starkey](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-4ccab5e88e58.jpg) Drew Starkey — Image via TMDB
- ![Drew Starkey](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-a2752a4c71b5.jpg) Drew Starkey — Image via TMDB
- ![Drew Starkey](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-662defd122f4.jpg) Drew Starkey — Image via TMDB
- ![Drew Starkey](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-6d5357144b4b.jpg) Drew Starkey — Image via TMDB
- ![Drew Starkey](https://film.one/media/person/10318/gallery-b9f6673bf76a.jpg) Drew Starkey — Image via TMDB

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