Jack O'Connell

Acting · Born 1990-08-01 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• Starred Up as Eric Love
• Unbroken as Louis Zamperini
• This Is England as Pukey Nicholls
• Sinners as Remmick
• Trial by Fire as Cameron Todd Willingham
• Little Fish as Jude
• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal
• Back to Black as Blake
• Harry Brown as Marky
• Eden Lake as Brett

TV

• Skins as James Cook
• SAS Rogue Heroes as Paddy Mayne
• Godless as Roy Goode
• Dive as Robert Wisley
• The Runaway as Eamonn Docherty
• Wire in the Blood as Jack Norton
• The Bill as Ross Trescott
• Waterloo Road as Dale Baxter
• Holby City as Davey Hunt
• Doctors as Connor Yates