
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).
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Acting History
2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
202628 Years Later: The Bone Temple as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal
202528 Years Later as Jimmy Crystal
2025Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners as Self
2025Sinners as Remmick
2024Back to Black as Blake
2023Ferrari as Peter Collins
2022Lady Chatterley's Lover as Oliver Mellors
2022SAS Rogue Heroes as Paddy Mayne
2021The North Water as Patrick Sumner
2021Little Fish as Jude
2020Jungleland as Walter 'Lion' Kaminski
2019Seberg as Jack Solomon
2019Trial by Fire as Cameron Todd Willingham
2018National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick
2017Godless as Roy Goode
2017Tulip Fever as Willem Brok
2017Robot & Scarecrow as Scarecrow
2017The Man with the Iron Heart as Jan Kubiš
2016Money Monster as Kyle Budwell
2016Home as Jack
2014Unbroken as Louis Zamperini
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Lennon or McCartney as Self
2014'71 as Gary Hook
2014Shelter as Private Charlie Miller
2014Starred Up as Eric Love
2014300: Rise of an Empire as Calisto
2012The Liability as Adam
2012Private Peaceful as Charlie Peaceful
2012Tower Block as Kurtis
2012The Somnambulists as Man 10
2011Weekender as Dylan
2011The Runaway as Eamonn Docherty
2011United as Bobby Charlton
2010The Hardest Part as Thug
2010Dive as Robert
2009Harry Brown as Marky
2009Wuthering Heights as Shepherd Lad
2009Wayfaring Stranger as Bobby Brewer
2008Eden Lake as Brett
2007This Is England as Pukey Nicholls
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007Skins as James Cook
2006Black Dog as Chris
2006The One Show as Self
2006Waterloo Road as Dale Baxter
2002Wire in the Blood as Jack Norton
2000Doctors as Connor Yates
1999Holby City as Davey Hunt
1984The Bill as Ross Trescott
—Twisting My Melon as Shaun Ryder
—Ink as Larry Lamb









