As the year 2025 comes to a close, there’s one actor whose work left Us absolutely obsessed.
It felt like we couldn’t scroll through our Instagram feeds or turn on our TVs without seeing a glimpse of 6-foot-6 Australian actor Jacob Elordi promoting his latest project or collaboration. Elordi deserves his flowers for his captivating role of The Creature in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, presenting an equally heartbreaking and terrifying performance.
And on the subject of heartbreak, Elordi experienced a series of his own in real life when he split from Olivia Jade Giannulli … again. The two dated on and off for four years before calling it quits for the most recent time in the fall of 2025.
Scroll below for a roundup of Elordi’s ups and downs in 2025:
Jacob Elordi Truly Transformed in ‘Frankenstein’
Jacob Elordi masterfully transformed into The Creature for Frankenstein, which was the result of 11 hours in the makeup chair.
“I had about four weeks to really get ready for production,” Elordi told Tudum in November 2025. “There’s a point where you have to leave the world behind. You have to close all the doors to your house emotionally. You close your ears off and close your eyes off and change the way that you see things — all the regular things that you would do in a day, like eating and showering. They have to take on a new life to be able to shift into something else.”
He costarred alongside Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz in the sci-fi thriller, an experience that both Elordi and audiences will certainly never forget.
“This cast is incredible,” Elordi reflected. “These are all heavy hitters and people that I’ve watched my whole life. Working with them was amazing. We just ripped our chests open and showed each other everything that we have. It’s like being in a candy shop. These actors are all my favorite sour worms.”
Jacob Elordi Earned 2 Golden Globes Nominations
Jacob Elordi might be bringing home a trophy at the 2026 Golden Globes. He became a first-time Golden Globe nominee in 2025, scoring a nod for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for Frankenstein and a second nomination for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for his role in the miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
In Deep North, Elordi portrays Dorrigo Evans, a World War II veteran who has a decades-long affair with his uncle’s wife, Ella.
“I’m just incredibly open to being a part of the circus right now, in a way,” he told Deadline of his work on the show in June 2025. “I really love being an actor. I don’t know, silly as it may sound, the love for it just keeps going deeper and deeper.”
Frankenstein also earned him a nod for Best Supporting Actor ahead of the 2026 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.
‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Wrapped Filming
It truly felt like it took an eternity for Euphoria season 3 to get off the ground, but Jacob Elordi wrapped filming for his character we love to hate, Nate Jacobs.
“I had so much fun shooting the show,” he told Vanity Fair in December 2025. “It felt like I was playing a completely different character, because so much time has passed. It was also exciting to come back because on the first season of that show, I would bug [series creator] Sam Levinson about how badly I wanted to make movies and how much I love movies. I felt like the prodigal son returning with my bags full of stories of the movies I’d made. I was like, ‘Father, look what I have gathered!’”
Elordi also reflected on how his work on Euphoria, which began with season 1 in 2019, led him to nab other acting roles and bigger opportunities.
“I had gotten the opportunity to work with [Deep Water director] Adrian Lyne at the same time as making Euphoria. I’ve always been very lucky in the sets that I found myself on, but I felt a noticeable change — whether it was just because I finally felt like I was being given the work that gave me the opportunity to do the sort of prep that I wanted to do, to play the characters that I’d wanted to play for a really long time,” the Priscilla actor said.
“I think when I worked with Sofia Coppola, there was, for me, a noticeable sort of shift in perception,” he continued. “But it had also taught me a little bit about the world, because Euphoria alone is full of excellent performances — like really, really detailed work. But then it gets lost in this kind of social lens, because of the popularity. In Australia, [we call it] ‘tall poppy syndrome.’ When something is so big and universally acclaimed, it does lose some of its punch. Or it’s uncool to like it because so many people like it.”
Season 3 of Euphoria will officially premiere in April 2026.
Jacob Elordi and Olivia Jade Got Back Together (and Broke Up Again)
With all of the high points in Jacob Elordi’s career in 2025 came some downs, like the end of his relationship with Olivia Jade Giannulli. The pair, who were first spotted together in December 2021, split several times throughout their relationship.
An insider exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2025 that Elordi and Jade were “seeing each other again and giving it another shot.” Giannulli attended the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Frankenstein that month. Weeks later, Us confirmed they had split once again.
The Drama Surrounding Jacob Elordi’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ Casting
Even before a trailer for Wuthering Heights dropped in November 2025, many fans of the 1847 Emily Brontë novel were critical of Jacob Elordi’s casting as Heathcliff, as it’s implied in the book that the character is a person of color.
“Did we read the same book? It was dark, tortured and their love story toxic,” one person criticized via Instagram in September 2025. “Each to their own, but for myself I never set the expectation a film adaptation will ever be exactly like the book. There are movies that are close to the story but good movies in themselves, some that completely miss the mark. Less expectation, less disappointment especially until I see the movie.”
“Not to be that one friend who is too woke but bleaching the class and racial otherness out of wuthering heights to sell a horny whitewashed romance genuinely pisses me off,” a second person wrote.
The official Instagram page then promoted the film with the tagline, “Inspired by the greatest love story of all time.”
“Calling Wuthering Heights the greatest love story ever is WILD,” one person wrote in an Instagram comment. “Calling it ‘the greatest love story of all time’ is so funny man everyone in Wuthering Heights hates each other.”
Additionally, the ages of the characters in the book vs. the movie was also up for debate along with the heavily erotic undertone in the trailer.
“A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw,” per the official synopsis.
Still, everyone will have to wait until February 13, 2026, to see the story brought to life.
“I think what [director Emerald Fennell] has done is really perfect and super beautiful,” Elordi teased in a September 2025 interview with WSJ. Magazine. “It’s electric. And it’s also like nails on a chalkboard. It does something. It moves you in some kind of way, good or bad, but it will move you.”
Jacob Elordi Clapped Back
In December 2025, Jacob Elordi addressed photographers at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris who were snapping photos of him without consent.
“You make it really hard for me to live when you do this,” he said in a video shared by a spectator via Instagram. “I don’t love you.”
Elordi attempted to keep a low profile with a baseball cap and headphones in his ears.
“You make it really hard for me to live, all of you,” Elordi reiterated once more. “You make it really hard for me.”
Months prior, he was seen in a video shared via TikTok in September at the Venice International Film Festival that’s since gone viral. In the clip, Elordi was seen talking with a worker before posing with fans. “I’m gonna take a picture right here. Don’t ever tell me what to do,” he could be heard telling the worker.
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