Jack O'Connell

Date of Birth: 01 Aug 1989
Country: UK
Biography: Jack O'Connell is a British actor from Alvaston, Derby, England. He is perhaps most recognisable for playing Pukey Nicholls in This Is England (2006), and as James Cook in the double BAFTA-winning E4 teen drama Skins.
Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor)
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Roland Rat, Margaret Thatcher; Rubik's Cubes, the Royal Wedding; aerobics, skinheads... It's 1983, and the schools are breaking up for summer. Shaun is 12 and a bit of a loner, growing up with his mum in a grim coastal town, his dad killed fighting in the Falklands War. On his way home from school where he's been tormented all day for wearing flares, he runs into a group of skinheads, who against expectations turn out to be friendly and take him under their wing... (imdb)
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences. (imdb)
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. (imdb)
Dive (2010) - TV Movie
At 15, Lindsey is hugely driven, self-contained, astute and ambitious. She is hoping to make it to the Olympics in 2012, representing Great Britain as a diver, and is not the sort of person you expect to be depicted falling pregnant. When Lindsey meets Robert she's at a point when everything has been turned on its head at home. He's like the antidote to all the structure and discipline that had conditioned her life so far. (bbc tv)
Wuthering Heights (2009) - TV Movie
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family. (imdb)
United (2011) - TV 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. (imdb)
In Manchester, best mates Matt and Dylan are in their early 20's and long to be more than just punters. As the government moves to outlaw the scene, it's now or never and they quickly rise through the ranks to join the promoting elite. It's everything they dreamed of and more. But as their success continues to grow, they attract a more dark and sinister world. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Several months 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. (imdb)
A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father. (imdb)
The Greek general Themistocles battles an invading army of Persians under the mortal-turned-god, Xerxes. (imdb)
A young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971. (imdb)
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II. (imdb)
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. (imdb)
Skins (2007) - TV Series
The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends (and lovers) rather than authority figures. (imdb)
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.
In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, financial TV host Lee Gates (George Clooney) and his producer Patty (Julia Roberts) are put in an explosive situation when an irate investor (Jack O'Connell) takes over their studio. (imdb)
Home (2016) - Short Film
Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family leave, on what appears to be a holiday. (imdb)
1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader - Reich-protector Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the "Final Solution". (imdb)
Godless (2017) - TV Mini-Series
Frank Griffin, an outlaw terrorizing the 1880s American West, hunts down Roy Goode, his partner turned enemy. Roy hides out at a ranch as Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico - a town mysteriously made up entirely of women. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Robot & Scarecrow (2017) - Short Film
A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival. (imdb)
An ambitious young F.B.I. Agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles. (imdb)
Two brothers try to escape their circumstances by travelling across the country for a no holds barred boxing match that becomes a fight for their lives. (imdb)
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.
The North Water (2021) - TV Mini-Series
The North Water tells the story of Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship's doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. On board he meets Henry Drax, the harpooner, a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world. 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.
SAS Rogue Heroes (2022) - TV Series
SAS: Rogue Heroes charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit. Based on the book by Ben Macintyre. (imdb)
An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.
The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time. (imdb)
The Runaway (2010) - TV Mini-Series
Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute, Madge, Cathy's life is difficult, especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. (imdb)
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. (imdb)