Jack O'Connell

Jack O'Connell (2016)

Jack O'Connell (born August 1, 1990 in Alvaston , Derby , England ) is a British actor .

Life

Jack O'Connell was best known in Germany for his role as James Cook in the British television series Skins - Hautnah and that of a teenager in the drama Eden Lake (2008).

He began his film and television career in 2005 when he took on a role in an episode of the soap opera Doctors . In the same year he starred in several episodes of the series The Bill . In 2006 he made his feature film debut in This Is England . Since then he has appeared in cinema and television productions.

In 2014 he played the lead role as the athlete and prisoner of war Louis Zamperini , the story of which the film tells, under the direction of Angelina Jolie in the war drama Unbroken . In 2017, he played the Czechoslovak resistance fighter Jan Kubiš in The Power of Evil , who carried out the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich together with Jozef Gabčík .

Filmography (selection)

• 2005: Doctors (TV series, episode 7x19)
• 2005: The Bill (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 2006: This Is England
• 2007: Waterloo Road (TV series, episode 2x09)
• 2007: Holby City (TV series, episode 9x31)
• 2007: Hautnah - Die Methode Hill ( Wire in the Blood , TV series, episode 5x3)
• 2008: Eden Lake
• 2009: Emily Brontë's Sturmhöhe ( Wuthering Heights , miniseries)
• 2009: Harry Brown
• 2009-2013: Skins - Close Up ( Skins , TV series, 18 episodes)
• 2010: Dive (TV movie)
• 2011: United
• 2011: The Runaway (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 2011: Weekender
• 2012: Tower Block
• 2012: Private Peaceful - My Brother Charlie (Private Peaceful)
• 2012: Last Hitman (The Liability)
• 2012: The Somnambulists
• 2013: Walls of Violence (Starred Up)
• 2014: '71
• 2014: 300: Rise of an Empire
• 2014: Unbroken
• 2014: Shelter (short film)
• 2016: Home (short film)
• 2016: Money Monster
• 2017: The power of evil (The Man with the Iron Heart)
• 2017: Robot And Scarecrow (short film)
• 2017: tulips fever (Tulip Fever)
• 2017: Godless (TV series, 7 episodes)
• 2019: Jean Seberg - Against all Enemies (Seberg)
• 2019: Jungleland
• 2020: Little Fish

Awards (selection)

• 2015: BAFTA Award for Best Young Actor
• 2015: Chopard Trophy of the Cannes International Film Festival

Web links

Commons : Jack O'Connell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jack O'Connell in the Internet Movie Database (English)