Strait began taking acting lessons at the age of eleven. In the sixth grade, he began to take performing classes at the Village Community School. Although forced into it at first, he found a passion for acting after he performed live for the first time. He has worked at the Stella Adler Acting Studio and the Black Nexxus Acting Studio in New York City.

In 2004, after graduating from Xavier High School he moved to California to pursue a career in acting. After his first audition he received an acting job, and in 2005, he debuted in his first movie, Sky High where he played a teenage superhero named Warren Peace. He covered The Fixx song "One Thing Leads to Another" for the film's soundtrack.

His next movie appearance was alongside Ashlee Simpson (in her movie debut) and Pell James in Undiscovered, a movie about young actors in the entertainment industry who want to become stars. In 2006 he starred as Caleb Danvers in The Covenant, a horror/thriller film which opened on Se