Nicola Peltz Biography
Nicola Peltz is an American actress, filmmaker, and billionaire heiress known for her roles as Katara in The Last Airbender, Bradley Martin in A&E’s Bates Motel from 2013 to 2015, and Tessa Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Nicola Peltz Career
Peltz debuted on the film Deck the Halls in 2006, where she starred as Mackenzie. The following year, she starred in a Manhattan Theatre Club production of Blackbird. Later, she co-starred as Becki Harold in 2008. That same year, she was featured in the music video for Miley Cyrus’s “7 Things.” In 2010, she played the role of Katara in The Last Airbender, a role she obtained at the insistence of her father, who was a producer on the film.
In 2013, Peltz started starring as part of the main cast in A&E’s Bates Motel, playing the role of Bradley Martin. She left the show after the second episode of the second season, but made guest appearances for the final three episodes of the third season. She starred as Tessa Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014, reprising her role in its sequel, Transformers: The Last Knight in 2017. She starred as Kate Miller in Affluenza in late 2014.
Peltz walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week, Alexander Wang’s last fashion show for Balenciaga, in October 2015. She starred as Annie Gleason in Youth in Oregon in 2016. In February of that same year, she appeared in the music video for Zayn Malik’s It’s You.
Peltz joined the cast of Hulu’s When the Street Lights Go On as Chrissy Monroe. She starred in Alex Pettyfer’s Back Roads and Our House. In 2019, she played the role of Marley Meyers in The Obituary of Tunde Johnson. The following year, she starred as Felicity in Holidate.
Nicola Peltz Age
Peltz was born Nicola Anne Peltz on January 9, 1995, in Westchester County, New York, U.S. She is 30 years old as of 2025. Peltz celebrates her birthday on Jnauary 9th.
Nicola Peltz Height
Peltz stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 7¼ inches.
Nicola Peltz Family
Peltz was born to Nelson Peltz and Claudia Heffner, a former fashion model. They have 2 daughters and 6 sons, including Peltz and her older brother, Will. Despite Heffner not converting to Judaism, they held bar mitzvahs for all their sons. Will is an American actor, known for his roles in Unfriended, Men, Women & Children, and Manifest. He was born on May 30, 1986, and is 39 years old as of 2025. Peltz and Will have similar Hebrew and Yiddish tattoos on their ribs. Her tattoo reads “family first” in Yiddish, while his reads “family,” which is written the same way in both Hebrew and Yiddish.
Nelson is a Jewish American billionaire businessman and investor who founded Trian Partners with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden. He works as the non-executive chairman of Wendy’s Company, Sysco, and The Madison Square Garden Company. Previously, he worked as the director of H.J. Heinz Company, Mondelēz International and Ingersoll Rand. He was born on June 24, 1942, and is 82 years old as of 2025.
Before marrying Claudia, Nelson was married twice. He was first married to Cynthia Abrams, the daughter of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation co-founder Benjamin Abrams. Before their divorce in 1981, they had two children. Her father is an Ashkenazi Jew with Austrian and Russian roots, while her mother has Italian, German, Welsh, and English roots.
Nicola Peltz Husband
Peltz got married to Brooklyn Beckham on April 9, 2022, in a Jewish ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida. In October, she shared that they had adopted a dog via an Instagram post, encouraging their fans to adopt or foster animals. As a result, they won a 2022 PETA award as a Pawsome Adoption Advocate. They shared news of their engagement on July 11, 2020.
Brooklyn is the son and firstborn child of David Beckham, a former footballer and fashion designer, and Victoria Beckham, a Spice Girls member. He was born on March 4, 1999, and is 26 years old as of 2025. Before Brooklyn, she was in a relationship with model Anwar Hadid from 2017 to 2018.
Nicola Peltz Net Worth
Peltz has an estimated net worth of $50 million, which she has earned through being a actress, filmmaker, and billionaire heiress.
Nicola Peltz The Last Airbender
Peltz starred as Katara in The Last Airbender in 2010 opposite Noah Ringer and Seychelle Gabriel. She got the role at the insistence of her father, who was a producer on the film. Katara is a fourteen-year-old girl of the Southern Water Tribe, Avatar Aang’s love interest, and the last waterbender. After the death of her mother, she took on the role of a motherly figure in her family. She has an older brother named Sokka who serves as a warrior for the Southern Water Tribe. Katara and Sokka discover Aang in an iceberg and join him on his journey to stop the Fire Nation’s war of conquest against the other nations.
Nicola Peltz Transformers: Age of Extinction
Peltz starred as Tessa Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014, reprising her role in its sequel, Transformers: The Last Knight in 2017. Tessa is the teenage daughter of Cade Yeager(Mark Wahlberg) and is in a secret relationship with Shane Dyson, an Irish rally car driver.
Peltz won a 2014 Rising Star (with Jack Reynor) CinemaCon Award for her performance in Transformers: Age of Extinction. She also won nominations for Teen Choice Movie: Breakout Star Award and Golden Raspberry Worst Supporting Actress Award.
Nicola Peltz Lola
In 2024, Peltz starred as Lola James in Lola, a film she also directed and wrote. Lola is a 19-year-old girl dealing with a cocaine addiction who lives with her brother, Arlo, and her mother, Mona, an overly religious and homophobic individual. Mona abuses Arlo as she starts to notice his interest in makeup. With dreams of escaping her toxic home with her brother, she works two jobs: as an exotic dancer at night and a grocer during the day. She plans to move to Texas so that Arlo can go to a creative kids’ art school.
Nicola Peltz Movies and TV Shows
Peltz has starred in several movies and TV shows during her career such as
- Deck the Halls
- Eye of the Hurricane
- Bates Motel
- Affluenza
- When the Streetlights Go On
- Youth in Oregon
- Back Roads
- Inhumans
- Welcome to Chippendales
- Our House
- The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
- Holidate