Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor. Freshen up your watchlist with Prime Video’s latest roster of movies and TV shows, featuring Looking for some great streaming picks? His film debut as a teenage skinhead in the coming-of-age drama This Is England (2006) heralded his propensity for playing angry, troubled youth.

He later found fame as the hard-living James Cook on the E4 teen series Skins (2009–2010), which was followed by other lead roles in the television dramas Dive (2010) and United (2011). Jack O'Connor is an actor, known for Escape the Night (2016), The Annunciation (2018) and Lost Gold (2017). O'Connell gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films O'Connell was born on 1 August 1990 into a working-class family in As a youth, O'Connell was in and out of court on charges related to alcohol and violence, and he received a one-year Since the start of his career, O'Connell has mainly played young delinquents;During 2007, O'Connell appeared in television episodes of O'Connell first found fame, chiefly among people his age, as the troubled and hard-living O'Connell's career breakthrough came when he starred in the independent prison drama Following a supporting role as an Athenian warrior in his first blockbuster, O'Connell has said that he does not consider himself British, instead identifying specifically with his Derbyshire upbringing and Irish heritage.After his father died when O'Connell was 18, he coped in part by engaging in self-destructive behaviour, later commenting that he "didn't stop partying for like seven years".O'Connell's troubled youth has influenced his work, resulting in him playing mainly delinquents for the first decade of his career, Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. See full bio »