Jack O'Connell
Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor who first found fame as James Cook in Skins (2009–2010, 2013). He is also known for Pukey Nicholls in This Is England (2006), roles in the slasher film Eden Lake (2009) and the television dramas Dive (2010), United (2011) and playing the lead, Roy Goode, in the Netflix wild west miniseries Godless (2017). O'Connell gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films Starred Up (2013) and '71 (2014). He subsequently starred as war hero Louis Zamperini in the war film Unbroken (2014), for which he received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He has since starred in the thriller Money Monster (2016), the biographical drama Trial by Fire (2018) and the BBC miniseries The North Water (2021).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · 28 Years Later as
- 2025 · Sinners as
- 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 · 9 Kisses as Boxing Guy
- 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 · 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
- Future · Love Is a Gun as Clyde Barrow
- Future · He Bled Neon as
- Future · Twisting My Melon as Shaun Ryder