Joel Courtney

Joel Courtney is interesting to me as a case of two very different launches. He broke through young in 2011's Super 8, the kind of debut that could have defined him as a child-actor footnote, then he resurfaced years later anchoring Netflix's The Kissing Booth films for a whole new audience. That gap, and the comeback, is what I find compelling. A lot of early-career standouts simply vanish, so the fact that he found a second wave and made it stick says something about persistence. Born in Monterey in 1996, he feels like someone still writing his story.

Name (English)

Joel Courtney

Name (Japanese)

ジョエル・コートニー

Reading

じょえる・こーとにー

Born

January 31, 1996 (age 30)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Monterey, California, United States

Occupation

actor

• Official sitehttps://joelcourtney.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/joel_courtney/
• Xhttps://x.com/Joel_Courtney
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Courtney
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691699

Tags

• California
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.