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.

Most Known For

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

The One Show

as Self

Sinners

as Remmick

28 Years Later

as Jimmy Crystal

Skins

as James Cook

Holby City

as Davey Hunt

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self

The Bill

as Ross Trescott

Waterloo Road

as Dale Baxter

Doctors

as Connor Yates

Godless

as Roy Goode

SAS Rogue Heroes

as Paddy Mayne

The North Water

as Patrick Sumner

300: Rise of an Empire

as Calisto

Wuthering Heights

as Shepherd Lad

Eden Lake

as Brett

Wire in the Blood

as Jack Norton

Starred Up

as Eric Love

Unbroken

as Louis Zamperini