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What to Know About Resident Evil Actor Austin Abrams
Key takeaways:
Austin Abrams, 30, is an American actor best known for playing Ethan Daley in HBO's Euphoria and Ron Anderson in The Walking Dead.
He previously worked with Resident Evil director Zach Cregger on 2025's horror hit Weapons.
Abrams has no public social media presence, having called platforms like Instagram a "mental trap."
Austin Abrams is having a moment. After years of scene-stealing supporting roles, he's headlining Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot as Bryan, an ordinary medical courier thrown into a citywide zombie outbreak. Here's everything to know about the actor carrying the film.
Who Is Austin Abrams?
Austin Noah Abrams was born on September 2, 1996, and was raised in Sarasota, Florida, the son of Lori and Bradley Abrams, both doctors. He has a younger sister, Ashley, who is also an actress, and is of Jewish heritage. Abrams began taking acting lessons at age five and was appearing in theatre productions by nine, before making his feature film debut in the mystery-action thriller Ticking Clock.
His Breakout Roles
Abrams built his career steadily through a string of well-regarded teen and coming-of-age projects before Resident Evil. He played Aaron in The Kings of Summer (2013), Ben in Paper Towns (2015) alongside Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne, and had a supporting role in Gangster Squad (2013). On television, he had a recurring role as Ron Anderson on The Walking Dead between 2015 and 2016 — ironic, given his current lead role in a very different kind of zombie story — and later starred as Dash in Netflix's Dash & Lily (2020) and young Marc McKeon in NBC's This Is Us.
His most widely recognised role remains Ethan Daley on HBO's Euphoria, which he played from 2019 to 2022 opposite Zendaya and Barbie Ferreira. For his performance as Gettys O'Brien in the 2023 coming-of-age drama The Line, Abrams won the Rising Star Award at the Sarasota Film Festival.
His Connection to Zach Cregger
Resident Evil isn't Abrams' first collaboration with director Zach Cregger. He previously appeared in Cregger's 2025 horror hit Weapons, giving the two an existing creative shorthand well before stepping into the lead role of the Resident Evil reboot. That prior relationship likely explains some of the confidence in Abrams' performance here — critics reviewing the film have specifically praised his ability to carry both the horror and the comedy of Cregger's script.
Does Austin Abrams Have Social Media?
Notably, no — Abrams has kept himself almost entirely off social media. He's explained the choice as a deliberate one, telling Coup de Main magazine he is "not very interested in showing people [his] life," and describing Instagram as a "mental trap," according to Capital FM. It's kept him something of a low-key presence relative to his Euphoria co-stars, even as his film career has continued to build.
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