Jai Courtney

Jai Courtney (/dʒaɪ/; born March 15, 1986) is an Australian actor. Courtney started his career as a teenager with small roles in film and television, and studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. After early supporting roles in Hollywood projects, he gained recognition for playing Dauntless leader Eric Coulter in The Divergent Series (2014–2015), Kyle Reese in Terminator Genisys (2015), and supervillain Captain Boomerang in the DC Extended Universe films Suicide Squad (2016), and The Suicide Squad (2021). He played a corrupt debt collector, the main antagonist in the independent film Buffaloed (2019).

Courtney's other notable credits include the Hollywood films I, Frankenstein (2014), Unbroken (2014), and The Exception (2016); the Australian films Felony (2014), The Water Diviner (2014), Storm Boy (2019) and 100% Wolf (2020), and the television series Stateless (2020). He also appeared in The Terminal List (2022) and the 2023 American TV series Kaleidoscope. In 2025, he starred in the survival horror thriller Dangerous Animals.

On stage, he portrayed the title character in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Macbeth (2017). He also hosted the Australian reality competition series The Summit in 2023.