He is best known for starring as Warren Peace in the adventure film Sky High (2005) and as Jim Holden in the science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2022).

During his teen years, Strait modeled for several magazines, including L'uomo Vogue, Spoon, Details, Surface, Hollister Co., and Pop, and worked with photographers Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Ellen von Unwerth.

After his first audition, he received an acting job, and in 2005, he appeared in his first film, Sky High, where he played a teenage superhero named Warren Peace.

He played a young mammoth hunter, D'Leh, as he travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from slavery.

[7] In November 2010, he guest starred on the NBC series Chase as Jackson Cooper, a fugitive with a dark past who manipulates his teenage girlfriend with promises of freedom from her father and a life filled with romance and adventure.