Jack O'Connell
Actor
Born August 1, 1990 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
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).
Filmography
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A Quiet Place Part III
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Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Twisting My Melon
Shaun Ryder
Ink
Larry Lamb
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Sir Jimmy Crystal
28 Years Later
Jimmy Crystal
Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners
Self
Sinners
Remmick
Back to Black
Blake
Ferrari
Peter Collins
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Oliver Mellors
SAS Rogue Heroes
Paddy Mayne
The North Water
Patrick Sumner
Little Fish
Jude
Jungleland
Walter 'Lion' Kaminski
Seberg
Jack Solomon
Trial by Fire
Cameron Todd Willingham
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick
Godless
Roy Goode
Tulip Fever
Willem Brok
Robot & Scarecrow
Scarecrow (voice)
The Man with the Iron Heart
Jan Kubiš
Money Monster
Kyle Budwell
Home
Jack
Unbroken
Louis Zamperini
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Lennon or McCartney
Self
'71
Gary Hook
Shelter
Private Charlie Miller
Starred Up
Eric Love
300: Rise of an Empire
Calisto
9 Kisses
Boxing Guy
Skins: Rise
James Cook
The Liability
Adam
Private Peaceful
Charlie Peaceful
Tower Block
Kurtis
The Somnambulists
Man 10
Weekender
Dylan
The Runaway
Eamonn Docherty
United
Bobby Charlton
The Hardest Part
Thug
Dive
Robert Wisley
Harry Brown
Marky
Wuthering Heights
Shepherd Lad
Wayfaring Stranger
Bobby Brewer
Eden Lake
Brett
This Is England
Pukey Nicholls
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Skins
James Cook
Black Dog
Chris
The One Show
Self
Waterloo Road
Dale Baxter
Wire in the Blood
Jack Norton
Doctors
Connor Yates
Holby City
Davey Hunt
The Bill
Ross Trescott