Patrick Schwarzenegger

An actor on the rise, Patrick Schwarzeneg­ger has estab­lished him­self through per­for­mances that blend inten­si­ty, charis­ma, and emo­tion­al nuance. Mov­ing effort­less­ly between film and tele­vi­sion, he is build­ing a career defined by eclec­tic choic­es that have posi­tioned him among the most promis­ing young tal­ents of his generation.
Born in San­ta Mon­i­ca, Patrick Schwarzeneg­ger grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia with degrees in Cin­e­mat­ic Arts and Busi­ness. He began his screen career in the ear­ly 2010s with roles in Josh Boone’s Stuck in Love, Den­nis Dugan’s Grown Ups 2, Christo­pher B. Landon’s Scout’s Guide to the Zom­bie Apoc­a­lypse, and Kevin Connolly’s Dear Eleanor. On tele­vi­sion, he also appeared in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens and Nation­al Geographic’s his­tor­i­cal series The Long Road Home.
In 2018, he land­ed his first lead­ing role oppo­site Bel­la Thorne in Scott Speer’s Mid­night Sun. He went on to star in Seth Savoy’s Echo Boomers and Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Isn’t Real, before appear­ing in Amy Poehler’s Net­flix film Mox­ie. On the small screen, he joined the casts of The Ter­mi­nal List, Gen V, the spin-off of The Boys, and HBO Max’s Emmy-nom­i­nat­ed lim­it­ed series The Stair­case, before reunit­ing with Ryan Mur­phy for Amer­i­can Sports Sto­ry: Aaron Her­nan­dez. In 2025, he rose to inter­na­tion­al promi­nence with his per­for­mance as Sax­on Ratliff in the third sea­son of Mike White’s crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed HBO series The White Lotus.
He will next star in Bunker, direct­ed by Acad­e­my Award win­ner Flo­ri­an Zeller, along­side Pené­lope Cruz and Javier Bar­dem. Upcom­ing projects also include Rachel Morrison’s Love of Your Life, Beach Read, Yulin Kuang’s adap­ta­tion of Emi­ly Henry’s best­selling nov­el, and The Book­ie & the Bruis­er, direct­ed by S. Craig Zahler.