Jack O'Connell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1990-08-01

Place of Birth

Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK

Jack O'Connell

Biography

Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for playing James Cook in the British television series Skins (2009–2010, 2013). He is also known for his roles in This Is England (2006), the slasher film Eden Lake (2008), the television dramas Dive (2010) and  United (2011), and the Netflix Wild West miniseries Godless (2017), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. O'Connell gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films Starred Up (2013) and '71 (2014), garnering nominations for the British Independent Film Awards. He subsequently starred as war hero Louis Zamperini in the war film Unbroken (2014) and received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He has since starred in the thriller Money Monster (2016), the biographical drama Trial by Fire (2018), the BBC miniseries The North Water (2021), the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022–2025), the Amy Winehouse biographical film Back to Black (2024) and the period horror film Sinners (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack O'Connell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal
2025
28 Years Later as Jimmy Crystal
2025
Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners as Self
2025
Sinners as Remmick
2024
Back to Black as Blake
2023
Ferrari as Peter Collins
2022
Lady Chatterley's Lover as Oliver Mellors
2022
SAS Rogue Heroes as Paddy Mayne
2021
The North Water as Patrick Sumner
2021
Little Fish as Jude
2020
Jungleland as Walter 'Lion' Kaminski
2019
Seberg as Jack Solomon
2019
Trial by Fire as Cameron Todd Willingham
2018
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick
2017
Godless as Roy Goode
2017
Tulip Fever as Willem Brok
2017
Robot & Scarecrow as Scarecrow
2017
The Man with the Iron Heart as Jan Kubiš
2016
Money Monster as Kyle Budwell
2016
Home as Jack
2014
Unbroken as Louis Zamperini
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014
Lennon or McCartney as Self
2014
'71 as Gary Hook
2014
Shelter as Private Charlie Miller
2014
Starred Up as Eric Love
2014
300: Rise of an Empire as Calisto
2012
The Liability as Adam
2012
Private Peaceful as Charlie Peaceful
2012
Tower Block as Kurtis
2012
The Somnambulists as Man 10
2011
Weekender as Dylan
2011
The Runaway as Eamonn Docherty
2011
United as Bobby Charlton
2010
The Hardest Part as Thug
2010
Dive as Robert
2009
Harry Brown as Marky
2009
Wuthering Heights as Shepherd Lad
2009
Wayfaring Stranger as Bobby Brewer
2008
Eden Lake as Brett
2007
This Is England as Pukey Nicholls
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007
Skins as James Cook
2006
Black Dog as Chris
2006
The One Show as Self
2006
Waterloo Road as Dale Baxter
2002
Wire in the Blood as Jack Norton
2000
Doctors as Connor Yates
1999
Holby City as Davey Hunt
1984
The Bill as Ross Trescott
Twisting My Melon as Shaun Ryder
Ink as Larry Lamb