Justin Baldoni

Justin Baldoni (born January 24, 1984) is an American actor and director best known for playing Rafael Solano in the CW series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019) and for directing and starring in the 2024 romantic drama It Ends with Us. He also directed the films Five Feet Apart (2019) and Clouds (2020), and co-founded the production company Wayfarer Studios in 2019. Beyond film, Baldoni has hosted the Man Enough podcast and published books on positive masculinity, drawing from his upbringing in the Bahá'í Faith in Oregon with a Jewish mother and Italian Catholic father. His career began with a debut on The Young and the Restless in 2004, and he later created the acclaimed digital documentary series My Last Days. In December 2024, Baldoni publicly alleged he had experienced sexual trauma during his university years, challenging the stigma that men cannot be victims of such trauma.