KJ Apa

Actor

Born June 17, 1997 in Auckland, New Zealand

Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa (born 17 June 1997) is a New Zealand actor, singer, and musician. He began acting playing Kane Jenkins in the New Zealand primetime soap opera Shortland Street from 2013 to 2015. Apa is best known for portraying Archie Andrews on The CW television series Riverdale (2017-2023), for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.

Acting

Jimmy
Film, 2026
as Jimmy Stewart
Let's Have Kids!
Film, 2026
as Rob
Falling
Film, 2026
as Jack
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Film, 2025
as Gene
The Map That Leads to You
Film, 2025
as Jack
One Fast Move
Film, 2024
as Wes Neal
Songbird
Film, 2020
as Nico
Dead Reckoning
Film, 2020
as Niko
I Still Believe
Film, 2020
as Jeremy Camp
The Last Summer
Film, 2019
as Griffin
The Hate U Give
Film, 2018
as Chris Bryant
Riverdale
TV series, 2017
as Archie Andrews
A Dog's Purpose
Film, 2017
as Teen Ethan
The Cul de Sac
TV series, 2016
as Jack
Shortland Street
TV series, 1992
as Kane Jenkins
West Pointer
Film
Untitled Sublime Biopic
Film
as Bradley Nowell
White Elephant
Film
Inside Job
Film
as Reagan Ridley
Obey
Film
Myron Bolitar
TV series
as Win Lockwood