Jack O’Connell Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
British nationality
Birth August 1, 1990 (Derby – England)

BIOGRAPHY
Irish on his father’s side and English on his mother’s side, Jack O’Connell grew up in Derby in England and quickly became passionate about football, which his grandfather played at a high level, before branching out into acting. A graduate of the Performing Arts College, he began his career immediately, in 2005, in the British soap opera Doctors and the television series The Bill .

He owes his first role in the cinema to British director Shane Meadows , who directed him in 2006 in This is England , a social drama about skinhead movements. Then he co-starred in the horror thriller Eden Lake (2008). The British actor plays Brett, a horrible gang leader who makes life difficult for the Kelly Reilly / Michael Fassbender couple .

But his most notable role remains that of James Cook, a hothead who likes to play with fire, in seasons 3, 4 and 7 of the sulphurous series Skins .

On the cinema side, the actor plays mainly in British productions and notably in the vigilante film Harry Brown (2011) directed by Michael Caine and the nervous thriller The Liability (2012), alongside two great British actors, Tim Roth and Peter Mullan . He lends his features to Adam, a 19-year-old teenager thrust into a nightmarish world punctuated by violence, sex and death.

In 2014, Jack O’Connell joined the ranks of Army of 300: Rise of an Empire . That same year, he continued to play tough guys in the prison film Fists against the Walls where he played a young delinquent thrown into an adult prison, and then played a soldier trapped in a Belfast neighborhood ( ’71 ). Two strong main roles leading us to believe that the actor’s career is on a very good track. In early 2015, Jack played the central character in Angelina Jolie

‘s second feature film , Invincible . Author: Marie Ponchel