Jack O'Connell

Jack O'Connell career has gone from strength to strength, winning the EE Rising Star Award at the 2015 BAFTA Awards, the New Hollywood Award at the 2015 Hollywood Film Awards and becoming one of the UK's most versatile and exciting actors.

In 2016 O'Connell has shot  HHhH in which he stars as a Czech resistance fighter alongside Jack Reynor, Mia Wasikowska, Rosamund Pike and Jason Clarke. Based on the debut novel of French author Laurent Binet, the film is directed by Cedric Jimenez and recounts "Operation Anthropoid," the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II. He can also be seen starring in the Weinsteins' Tulip Fever, a 17th century set romantic drama opposite Dane DeHaan, Alicia Vikander and Holliday Grainger, due for release this spring.

O'Connell received rave reviews when he returned to the stage leading the cast in Richard Bean's "The Nap" at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The play was directed by Richard Wilson and Jack played central character, Dylan.

In 2014, O'Connell took the lead role in Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, portraying American Olympian and World War II POW survivor Louis Zamperini. Based on the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, the film chronicles the life of the athlete who survived in a raft for 47 days after his bomber was downed before being sent to a series of Japanese prisoner of war camps.

2014 also saw him star in '71, for which he was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. The thriller based on the troubles in Belfast was screened at Toronto, Tribeca and New York Film Festivals and was in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. He was also seen starring in David Mackenzie's Film 4-backed Starred Up, for which he was nominated in the category of Best Actor at this year's BAFTA Scotland Awards. At the same awards, Starred Up received the Best Feature Film Award. The gritty prison based father-son drama, in which he played young prisoner Eric opposite Rupert Friend, premiered to great acclaim at the Toronto Film Festival, and also screened at the London, Tribeca and LA Film Festivals. The role also earned O'Connell a 2013 British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Actor and contributed towards his nomination for the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Award.

In early 2014, O'Connell featured in the role of Calisto in 300: Rise of an Empire, the prequel to Warner Bros.' epic 300.  In 2012, audiences saw him as lead character Charlie Peaceful in Pat O'Connor's Private Peaceful. This adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel follows the rites of passage of two brothers in the early 20th century.  He also starred as Kurtis in thriller Tower Block, alongside other British talent including Sheridan Smith and Russell Tovey, and as Adam in thriller The Liability. In 2013, O'Connell reprised the character he played in Skins in the feature Skins Rise, charting the development of his character since the last time viewers saw him.

2011 saw O'Connell star in both film and television. In "The Runaway" he starred as Eamonn in the critically acclaimed Sky drama alongside Keith Allen and Alan Cumming. In the same year, he starred as Bobby Charlton in "United," the BBC Two dramatization of the 1958 Munich Air Crash. For film, he played the role of Dylan in Karl Golden's Weekender. Following the wild adventures of two friends who move from Manchester's rave scene to the clubs of Ibiza, the film soon takes a sinister turn.

In 2006, O'Connell had his film debut with the role of Pukey in the controversial and critically acclaimed British film This is England. He followed this up with role of villain Brett in James Watkins' horror film Eden Lake, in which he appeared opposite with Michael Fassbender and Kelly Reilly. In 2009, he won the role of Marky in Daniel Barber's crime thriller Harry Brown, and later starred in TV movies "Wuthering Heights" and "Dive," directed by Dominic Savage.

O'Connell's theatre credits include "Scarborough" at the Royal Court, "The Spidermen," "The Musicians," and "Just."

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