Jack O'Connell

Jack O'Connell

Born: August 1, 1990
in Derby, England, UK
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).

Movies for Jack O'Connell...

Untitled Ryan Coogler Vampire Project
Title: Untitled Ryan Coogler Vampire Project
Released: March 7, 2025
Type: Movie
A vampire story set in the 1930s Jim Crow South, starring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles. Premise TBA.
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Back to Black
Title: Back to Black
Character: Blake Fielder-Civil
Released: April 11, 2024
Type: Movie
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
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Ferrari
Title: Ferrari
Character: Peter Collins
Released: December 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Character: Oliver Mellors
Released: November 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Unhappily married aristocrat Lady Chatterley begins a torrid affair — and falls deeply in love — with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.
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Title: SAS: Rogue Heroes
Character: Paddy Mayne
Released: October 30, 2022
Type: TV
The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
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Title: The North Water
Character: Patrick Sumner
Released: July 14, 2021
Type: TV
Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.
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Little Fish
Title: Little Fish
Character: Jude
Released: February 5, 2021
Type: Movie
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
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Jungleland
Title: Jungleland
Character: Walter 'Lion' Kaminski
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
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Seberg
Title: Seberg
Character: Jack Solomon
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: Movie
An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.
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Trial by Fire
Title: Trial by Fire
Character: Cameron Todd Willingham
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.
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National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Title: National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Character: Brick
Released: February 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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Title: Godless
Character: Roy Goode
Released: November 22, 2017
Type: TV
A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
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Tulip Fever
Title: Tulip Fever
Character: Willem Brok
Released: July 13, 2017
Type: Movie
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
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Robot & Scarecrow
Title: Robot & Scarecrow
Character: Scarecrow
Released: June 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.
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The Man with the Iron Heart
Title: The Man with the Iron Heart
Character: Jan Kubiš
Released: May 25, 2017
Type: Movie
With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
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Money Monster
Title: Money Monster
Character: Kyle Budwell
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
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Home
Title: Home
Character: Jack
Released: March 17, 2016
Type: Movie
As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday.
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Unbroken
Title: Unbroken
Character: Louis Zamperini
Released: December 25, 2014
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
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Title: Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 2014
Type: TV
PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of actors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.
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Lennon or McCartney
Title: Lennon or McCartney
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. Some stuck to one, some said more, some answered quickly, some thought it through, and some didn't answer at all. That question… Lennon or McCartney?
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9 Kisses
Title: 9 Kisses
Character: Boxing Guy
Released: December 11, 2014
Type: Movie
2014's best actors pair up in a series of intimate encounters.
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'71
Title: '71
Character: Gary Hook
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
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Shelter
Title: Shelter
Character: Private Charlie Miller
Released: April 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Netherlands, 1944 - When three wounded British Paratroopers find themselves behind enemy lines, they take shelter in a remote cottage inhabited by a Dutch mother and daughter. What seemed to be a safe hiding place quickly becomes a deadly prison, and the three men not only have to face the German enemy, but also their worst inner demons.
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Starred Up
Title: Starred Up
Character: Eric Love
Released: March 21, 2014
Type: Movie
19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.
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300: Rise of an Empire
Title: 300: Rise of an Empire
Character: Calisto
Released: March 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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Skins: Rise
Title: Skins: Rise
Character: James Cook
Released: July 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Cook has a job delivering drugs, and when he's asked to help his employer's girlfriend find a house, he finds that he's irresistibly attracted to her.
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The Liability
Title: The Liability
Character: Adam
Released: November 24, 2012
Type: Movie
When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.
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Private Peaceful
Title: Private Peaceful
Character: Charlie Peaceful
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
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Tower Block
Title: Tower Block
Character: Kurtis
Released: September 19, 2012
Type: Movie
A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
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The Somnambulists
Title: The Somnambulists
Character: Man 10
Released: April 30, 2012
Type: Movie
British servicemen and women reflect on the action they saw in Basra during the Iraq War.
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Weekender
Title: Weekender
Character: Dylan
Released: September 1, 2011
Type: Movie
The exploits of two friends who make the move from partying at illegal warehouse raves to becoming successful promoters at the peak of the Manchester, Amsterdam, and Ibiza rave scene in the early 90s.
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Title: The Runaway
Character: Eamonn Docherty
Released: March 31, 2011
Type: TV
Childhood friends Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty were brought up together in the heart of gangland East London. Separated by violent circumstances their lives take strikingly different directions until they meet again as adults.
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United
Title: United
Character: Bobby Charlton
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: Movie
United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.
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The Hardest Part
Title: The Hardest Part
Character: Thug
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
An aging actor finally secures the audition of a lifetime. But just how badly does he want the role?
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Title: Dive
Character: Robert
Released: July 8, 2010
Type: TV
Dive is a two-part British television drama starring Aisling Loftus, Jack O'Connell and Gina McKee. Broadcast on BBC Two in July 2010, the show dealt with the problems of teenage relationships and pregnancy against the backdrop of a young diver's preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Harry Brown
Title: Harry Brown
Character: Marky
Released: November 11, 2009
Type: Movie
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Shepherd Lad
Released: August 30, 2009
Type: TV
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
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Wayfaring Stranger
Title: Wayfaring Stranger
Character: Bobby Brewer
Released: April 23, 2009
Type: Movie
When he is released from a young Offender's Institute, Bobby Brewer a wayward 16 year old, is forced to take to the road with his errant troubadour father, Ronnie.
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Eden Lake
Title: Eden Lake
Character: Brett
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
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This Is England
Title: This Is England
Character: Pukey Nicholls
Released: April 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: Skins
Character: James Cook
Released: January 25, 2007
Type: TV
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
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Black Dog
Title: Black Dog
Character: Chris
Released: November 27, 2006
Type: Movie
When fourteen- year- old Chris is sent across the city to deliver a tonic to his sick grandfather, his journey becomes a chilling trip of self-discovery as he strays from the path into domain of the Black Dog.
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Title: Waterloo Road
Character: Dale Baxter
Released: March 9, 2006
Type: TV
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.
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Title: Wire in the Blood
Character: Jack Norton
Released: November 14, 2002
Type: TV
Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.
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Title: Doctors
Character: Connor Yates
Released: March 27, 2000
Type: TV
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
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Title: Holby City
Character: Davey Hunt
Released: January 12, 1999
Type: TV
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
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Title: The Bill
Character: Ross Trescott
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Love Is a Gun
Title: Love Is a Gun
Character: Clyde Barrow
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A thrilling, gritty and emotional story of two of history’s most famous lovers, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow.
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Twisting My Melon
Title: Twisting My Melon
Character: Shaun Ryder
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Biopic based on Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder's autobiography, the film will track the singer’s journey from a guitar-loving child to a leading light of Madchester’s party scene.
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28 Years Later
Title: 28 Years Later
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The third installment in the 28 Days Later franchise.
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He Bled Neon
Title: He Bled Neon
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After his estranged brother’s mysterious death, Ethan goes on a journey to Las Vegas for the funeral and unravels a dark web of crime, forcing him to confront his past as he delves into the city’s gritty underworld to uncover the truth.