Austin Abrams
Birthdate: September 2, 1996 (30 Years Old)
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Austin Abrams (birthname: Austin Noah Abrams) is an American actor best known for his recurring role in AMC’s long-running hit show, The Walking Dead, and who made his feature theatrical debut as a teen actor in a supporting role in director/co-writer/producer Bryan Fogel’s indie comedy, Jewtopia (2012)—adapted by Abrams and co-screenwriter Sam Wolfson from their play—with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ivan Sergei, Wendie Malick, Nicollette Sheridan, Lin Shaye, Rita Wilson and Jon Lovitz. Abrams landed his first role in a studio-released movie with the 1940s Los Angeles-set crime drama, Gangster Squad (2013), adapted by screenwriter Will Beall from Paul Lieberman’s non-fiction book, co-starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi and Michael Pena under Ruben Fleischer’s direction, and released by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Abrams joined the cast of the coming-of-age indie movie, The Kings of Summer (2013), co-starring Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Erin Moriarty, Megan Mullally, Alison Brie and Nick Offerman under Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s direction, written by Chris Galletta, and distributed by CBS Films after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival (where it appeared under its original title, Toy’s House). Abrams had his first co-lead role in director/writer Michael Cohn’s drama, Sacrifice (2014), co-starring Luke Kelintank, Lewis Tan, Dermot Mulroney and Melora Walters, with distribution by Paladin after launching at the Woodstock Film Festival.
Austin Abrams was featured in his first studio-produced movie, the hit teen comedy version of John Green’s best-selling 2008 novel, Paper Towns (2015), starring Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne under Jake Schreier’s direction, produced by Fox 2000 Pictures/Temple Hill Entertainment and released to a solid $85.5 million return (based on estimated costs). Abrams joined fellow rising co-stars Tye Sheridan and Kaitlyn Dever in director/writer Kyle Wilamowski’s romantic drama, All Summers End (2017), and distributed by Gravitas Ventures, and then Abrams had his first co-starring role with his face in the poster (with co-star Ben Stiller, playing Abrams’s father) in director/writer Mike White’s well-received comedy-drama, Brad’s Status (2017), with Jenna Fischer, Luke Wilson, Jemaine Clement and Michael Sheen, produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment/Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and which was released by Amazon Studios/Annapurna Pictures after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
Abrams played a supporting role in director/co-writer Tyler MacIntyre’s horror comedy, Tragedy Girls (2017), with Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson and Craig Robinson (who also produced), with distribution by Gunpowder & Sky after launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival, followed by Abrams joining the cast of director/producer Marc Turtletaub’s and writers Oren Moverman’s and Polly Mann’s English-language remake, Puzzle (2018), based on Natalia Smirnoff’s Argentine film, Rompecabezas (2010), co-starring Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman and Liv Hewson, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and released by Sony Pictures Classics. Abrams was in the ensemble of the successful feature adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s children’s book series, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), produced (in part) by Guillermo del Toro (was also a co-story writer), with Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gil Bellows and Lorraine Toussaint, and which grossed $104.5 million for Lionsgate Films (U.S.)/Entertainment One (Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain).
Austin Abrams was in the ensemble of director/writer Laurel Parmet’s feature debut, The Starling Girl (2023), co-starring Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Jimmi Simpson and Wrenn Schmidt, premiering in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and receiving a Best First Screenplay Indie Spirit Awards nomination for Parmet after a release by Bleecker Street (U.S., Canada)/Universal Pictures-Focus Features (International), and then Abrams joined the cast of director/co-writer Ethan Berger’s feature debut, The Line (2023), starring Alex Wolff, Lewis Pullman, Halle Bailey, Angus Cloud, Denise Richards, Cheri Oteri, Scoot McNairy and John Malkovich, launching at the Tribeca Film Festival before a release by Utopia. Abrams made a big impression as a homeless addict in director/writer/producer/co-composer Zach Cregger’s universally acclaimed horror mystery, Weapons (2025), co-starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan (who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar), produced (in part) by New Line Cinema and Vertigo Entertainment and grossing nearly seven times estimated costs for a $270 million global gross for distributor Warner Bros. Pictures.
Abrams reunited with director/co-writer/producer Zach Cregger as the lead in the second reboot and eighth series film, Resident Evil (2026), with Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser, produced (in part) by Columbia Pictures and which was released wide by Sony Pictures Releasing after launching at the Fantastic Fest. Abrams then starred in director/co-writer/producer Brian Duffield’s survival thriller based on co-screenwriter Daniel Kraus’s 2023 novel, Whalefall (2026), with Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Shue, produced (in part) by Brian Grazer via Imagine Entertainment and released by 20th Century Fox.
Personal life
Austin Abrams was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Sarasota, Florida, by his parents, Lori and Bradley (both doctors). Abrams has a younger sister, actor Ashley. Abrams attended the Florida Studio Theatre’s children’s program starting at age five and continued his training by performing in numerous stage productions at such companies as the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre and the Asolo Repertory Theater.
Known For
Austin Abrams Movies
Actor
Previous (12)
- 2026 |
- 2026 |
Resident Evil
asBryan
Follows a hapless courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital. He soon finds himself caught in the middle of an outbreak and must fight through hordes of mutated creatures to survive.
- 2025 |
- 2024 |
- 2024 |
- 2023 |
The Starling Girl
asBen Taylor
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
- 2019 |
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
asTommy Milner
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Pennsylvania, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
- 2018 |
- 2017 |
Brad's Status
asTroy Sloan
A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
- 2017 |
Tragedy Girls
asCraig Thompson
A twist on the slasher genre, following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy, and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
- 2015 |
Paper Towns
asBen
After an all-night adventure, Quentin's lifelong crush, Margo, disappears, leaving behind clues that Quentin and his friends follow on the journey of a lifetime.
- 1995 |
Facts About Austin Abrams
Heritage: Austin Abrams is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.
Learning by Doing: Abrams learned acting primarily by performing in numerous stage productions at various Florida-based theater company, and not through the conventional route of schools and college drama academies.
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