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).
Acted in
28 Years Later
2025
Sinners
2025
Back to Black
2024
as Blake
Ferrari
2023
as Peter Collins
Lady Chatterley's Lover
2022
as Oliver Mellors
SAS Rogue Heroes
2022
as Paddy Mayne
The North Water
2021
as Patrick Sumner
Little Fish
2021
as Jude
Jungleland
2020
as Walter 'Lion' Kaminski
Seberg
2019
as Jack Solomon
Trial by Fire
2019
as Cameron Todd Willingham
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2018
as Brick
Godless
2017
as Roy Goode
Tulip Fever
2017
as Willem Brok
Robot & Scarecrow
2017
as Scarecrow
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
as Jan Kubiš
Money Monster
2016
as Kyle Budwell
Home
2016
as Jack
Unbroken
2014
as Louis Zamperini
Lennon or McCartney
2014
as Self
9 Kisses
2014
as Boxing Guy
'71
2014
as Gary Hook
Shelter
2014
as Private Charlie Miller
Starred Up
2014
as Eric Love
300: Rise of an Empire
2014
as Calisto
The Liability
2012
as Adam
Private Peaceful
2012
as Charlie Peaceful
Tower Block
2012
as Kurtis
The Somnambulists
2012
as Man 10
Weekender
2011
as Dylan
The Runaway
2011
as Eamonn Docherty
United
2011
as Bobby Charlton
The Hardest Part
2010
as Thug
Dive
2010
as Robert
Harry Brown
2009
as Marky
Wuthering Heights
2009
as Shepherd Lad
Wayfaring Stranger
2009
as Bobby Brewer
Eden Lake
2008
as Brett
This Is England
2007
as Pukey Nicholls
Skins
2007
as James Cook
Black Dog
2006
as Chris
Waterloo Road
2006
as Dale Baxter
Wire in the Blood
2002
as Jack Norton
Doctors
2000
as Connor Yates
Holby City
1999
as Davey Hunt
The Bill
1984
as Ross Trescott
He Bled Neon
Love Is a Gun
as Clyde Barrow
Twisting My Melon
as Shaun Ryder