Jonjo O'Neill

Jonjo O'Neill

Born: July 11, 1978
Jonjo O'Neill is an actor from Northern Ireland known for his stage and television work. O'Neill was born in Belfast, grew up in the Whiterock Road area and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School. Growing up he was passionate about musical theatre and was a member of Ulster Youth Theatre and performed with the Ulster Theatre Company. In 1996 at the age of 18 he won a place and a full scholarship to the Guildford School of Acting, and moved to England. His first television role was the year he graduated from drama school, in Extremely Dangerous (1999).

A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 2009-2011 ensemble, his roles included Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Orlando in As You Like It, and Launcelot in Morte D'Arthur. His performances during the RSC's six-week residency at Park Avenue Armory in New York were hailed as "forceful" and "irresistible." At the 2012 World Shakespeare Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, O'Neill played the title role in Roxana Silbert's production of Richard III at the Swan Theatre.

In 2012 he won praise for his performance in Lucy Prebble's play The Effect at the Royal National Theatre headlining alongside Billie Piper, whom he later appeared alongside in the 2013 fiftieth anniversary episode of Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor". He also appeared in "The Mortal Remains," the final vignette in the Coen brothers's film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).

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Title: The New Look
Character: Bernard Dior
Released: February 13, 2024
Type: TV
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
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Title: Bad Sisters
Character: Donal Flynn
Released: August 19, 2022
Type: TV
The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for each other. When their brother-in-law winds up dead, his life insurers launch an investigation to prove malicious intent—and set their sights on the sisters, all of whom had ample reason to kill him.
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All the Old Knives
Title: All the Old Knives
Character: Ernst Pul
Released: April 8, 2022
Type: Movie
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
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Operation Mincemeat
Title: Operation Mincemeat
Character: Teddy
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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Here Before
Title: Here Before
Character: Brendon
Released: February 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
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Title: Dalgliesh
Character: Julius Marsh
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: TV
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
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Title: Stephen
Character: DI Shaun Keep
Released: August 30, 2021
Type: TV
Follows the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after his death - secures the convictions of two of the gang who committed the murder of Stephen.
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Rare Beasts
Title: Rare Beasts
Character: Dougie
Released: May 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of her parents' separation and professionally writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who’s searching for a sense of worth, belonging and ‘restored’ Male identity.
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Title: Bloodlands
Character: Ryan Savage
Released: February 21, 2021
Type: TV
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
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Title: The Queen's Gambit
Character: Mr. Ganz
Released: October 23, 2020
Type: TV
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
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The Octopus Nest
Title: The Octopus Nest
Character: Timothy
Released: November 10, 2019
Type: Movie
When a family discover a mysterious woman in the back of seven years' worth of their photos, the wife's search for the truth leads her to question the life she's been living.
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Title: Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Character: Aleister Crowley
Released: July 28, 2019
Type: TV
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Title: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Character: Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains")
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
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Title: Patrick Melrose
Character: Seamus Dourke
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: TV
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
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On Chesil Beach
Title: On Chesil Beach
Character: Phil
Released: January 19, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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Oasis
Title: Oasis
Character: David Morgan
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: Movie
A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. Based on Michel Faber's 'The Book Of Strange New Things'.
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Title: Oasis
Character: David Morgan
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: TV
Set in the near future, Oasis tells the story of priest Peter Leigh, who is called to a remote planet where a mysterious multinational company is building the first permanent off-Earth human colony. The planet, Oasis, is humanity’s last chance to escape from Earth’s impending collapse, but it quickly becomes apparent that it may not be as hospitable to humanity as it seems...
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Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Title: Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
Character: Traevor
Released: February 24, 2015
Type: Movie
When aspiring knight Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to instead find the dragon Drago. After Drago saves Gareth's life the two become intricately bonded, and must work together to defeat an evil sorcerer and stop his reign of terror. Along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight in this fantasy action-adventure for the ages.
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Title: Fortitude
Character: Ciaran Donnelly
Released: January 29, 2015
Type: TV
Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now. In such a close-knit community a murder touches everyone and the unsettling, mysterious horror of this crime threatens the future of the town itself.
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Title: Constantine
Character: Gary Lester
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: TV
A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Title: Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Character: McGillop
Released: November 23, 2013
Type: Movie
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
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Bad Sugar
Title: Bad Sugar
Character: Lipton
Released: August 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs.
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Title: Homeland
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
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Title: Vera
Character: Gary Tovey
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Orlando
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
As You Like It, Shakespeare's famous pastoral comedy of love and disguise, is reimagined here with darker, more sombre undertones. Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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RSC Live: The Comedy of Errors
Title: RSC Live: The Comedy of Errors
Character: Dromio of Syracuse
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: Movie
One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, The Comedy of Errors is a fast-paced farce exploring mistaken identities and relations lost and found. This production was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Clapham Community Project. It was devised specifically for schools and families by the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with critically acclaimed theatre company, Told by an Idiot. Directed by Paul Hunter, it features a cast made up from the RSC’s ensemble and uses a pared down script, props, live music and physical comedy to convey the story.
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Character: Lazar
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
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The Year London Blew Up
Title: The Year London Blew Up
Character: Harry Duggan
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: McGuillop
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Character: Jeffrey Meadows
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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The Gentleman Thief
Title: The Gentleman Thief
Character: Peter Scott
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Uses a mix of archive, documentary, and fictional storytelling to paint a portrait of Peter "The Human Fly" Scott, London's most notorious cat burglar. Based in 1960s London, the film is a depiction of real events surrounding the robbery of Sophia Loren and Peter's relationship with the actress following a curse she places on him after the theft of her jewelry.
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Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Edward Carver
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A contemporary reimagining of the beloved and respected novel of the same name where a professional assassin is contracted by a French paramilitary dissident to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.