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Austin Abrams

American actor (born 1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Austin Noah Abrams is an American actor. Following his film debut in Gangster Squad (2013), Abrams had lead roles in films such as Brad's Status (2017), Chemical Hearts (2020), Do Revenge (2022), and Resident Evil (2026), as well as supporting roles in The Kings of Summer (2013), Paper Towns (2015), Tragedy Girls (2017), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), The Starling Girl (2023), Wolfs (2024), and Weapons (2025). For his performance as Gettys O'Brien in the coming-of-age drama film The Line (2023), Abrams won the Rising Star Award at the Sarasota Film Festival.

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The public source identifies “Austin Abrams” as american actor (born 1996). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Austin, Abrams and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2017, 2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Austin, Abrams and American providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2017, 2020 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Austin Abrams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.