Jack O'Connell

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Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor.

He was born and raised in Derby and trained in acting at the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham, which led to roles in film, television, and theatre.

In the coming-of-age film This Is England (2006), his actor debut as a teenage skinhead sparked his propensity for portraying a troubled youth. O'Connell first became well-living James Cook on the E4 teen drama Skins (2009–2010), which was followed by other lead roles in the television dramas Dive (2010) and United (2011).

His breakthrough came when he gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films Starred Up (2013) and '71 (2014).

In his first major Hollywood film, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken (2014), for which he received the BAFTA Rising Star Award, O'Connell starred as war hero Louis Zamperini.

In 2016, he co-starred with George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Money Monster, a film directed by Jodie Foster.

On the Netflix western limited series Godless, he appeared alongside Michelle Dockery and Jeff Daniels as outlaw Roy Goode in 2017.

Early life

O'Connell was born in Alvaston, Derbyshire, on August 1, 1990, into a working-class family. Johnny Patrick O'Connell, an Irishman who served on Bombardier's British railways until his death from pancreatic cancer in 2009. Alison (née Gutteridge), an English mother, was employed by the airline British Midlands before taking on her son's affairs. Megan, his younger sister, is an actor. O'Connell, the grandson of Ken Gutteridge, a player and later manager of Burton Albion FC, aspired to become a professional footballer. He was drafted as a striker for Alvaston Rangers and was later scouted by Derby County FC, where he was convicted. After a string of injuries ended his career, he wanted to join the British Army, thinking it to be his only viable alternative to making a decent living. When he was 12 years old with the intention of instilling discipline, his parents enlisted him in the Army Cadet Force, but his juvenile criminal record barred him from serving in the Army.

O'Connell was both in and out of jail on charges relating to alcohol and violence as a youth, and he was given a one-year youth offender's referral order when he was 17. He has described himself as "a product of [his] environment" in the case of his transgressions. With two GCSEs in drama and English, O'Connell left Saint Benedict Catholic School at age 16. "I think the lessons I learned outside of school were certainly valuable lessons in terms of how to lie, how to play the game, and how to play authority against itself," he later reflected on his "brutal" experience at Saint Benedict: "I learned a lot about how to lie, how to play the game, as well as how to play the game." He took an interest in acting during compulsory drama classes, and from age 13 he attended the Nottingham Free Television Workshop, where he trained in drama twice a week. He began attending auditions in London, where he sometimes slept outside because he was unable to afford a hotel. He eventually moved to Hounslow, London, where he spent time as both a farmhand and a farmhand.

Personal life

O'Connell has stated that he does not consider himself British but rather identifies himself with his Derbyshire upbringing and Irish roots. He has lived in East London since 2014.

After his father died when O'Connell was 18 years old, he assisted in part by engaging in self-destructive conduct, later remarking that he "didn't stop partying for like seven years." During his time in Bristol, he forged a reputation in the tabloids as a "party boy," a "bad boy," and a "bit of rough." When hungover, he conducted interviews on a regular basis. The nickname "Jack the Lad" (which means "a conspicuous, carefree, brash young man") is tattooed on his arm.

O'Connell's struggling youth has influenced his work, resulting in him playing mostly delinquents for the first decade of his career, though his juvenile history had barred him from being cast in Hollywood productions as he was unable to obtain a US visa. By age 24, he had greatly changed his diet, saying, "I'm not trying to have the most fun I've ever had." Every time I left the house, I used to have the mentality. Angelina Jolie, the woman he directed in his first Hollywood film Unbroken, has been credited with influencing his outlook and referred to her as a "intervention."

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Career

Since the beginning of his career, O'Connell has predominantly played young delinquents; "If a British film called for a tough case, a wrestler, someone with a bit of grit," New York Times writer John Freeman wrote, "O'Connell would have been cast." "He] has one dazzling physical appearance after another, giving the appearance of enraged, troubled youth an electric sense of reality." In an episode of Doctors, O'Connell made his professional debut in 2005 as a boy accused of rape in The Bill. He appeared on stage for the first time the Television Workshop's production The Spider Men by the Television Workshop was chosen to be performed at the Royal National Theatre in London in 2008. O'Connell appeared in This Is England (2006), a critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama set in the early 1980s' skinhead subculture. He was considered too young to play the leading role of the belligerent Pukey at age 15, and leading filmmaker Shane Meadows was encouraged to write the supporting role of the belligerent Pukey specifically for him.

During 2007, O'Connell appeared in television episodes of Waterloo Road, Holby City, and Wire in the Blood. He appeared in the Edinburgh Festival as a 15-year-old boy with his tutor in the play Scarborough's first appearance before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre in London the following year. "His sincere grasp of Daz's innocence tenderness is, paradoxically, a sign of the actor's—and the actor's—unexpected maturity," Variety's David Benedict said of his stage appearance. O'Connell played a psychopathic gang leader who terrorizes a young married couple in Eden Lake (2008), which received raves. He starred as a juvenile delinquent in "Between You and Me" (2008), a Derbyshire Constabulary-produced educational film, followed by a minor role in the ITV series Wuthering Heights (2009).

In the third and fourth seasons of the E4 teen drama Skins, O'Connell first became well-known, particularly among people of his age. (2009–10) Amos Barshad, a Grantland writer, opined that none of his co-stars, which included Dev Patel and Nicholas Hoult, "ever quite matched the luminous, leering mania of O'Connell's Cook." Cook was almost like a baby Tyler Durden as a young boy ramped up bad news. He was named Best Actor in the fourth series by a TV Choice Award for his role. O'Connell starred in the film Skins Rise (2013), which follows a twenty-something Cook on the run from authorities. "He's certainly the most like myself that I had the pleasure of portraying," Cook said, although he didn't get older than adolescence.

O'Connell played an abused child turned violent gang member in the 2009 vigilante thriller Harry Brown, which polarized analysts. Michael Caine, the lead actor, was captivated by the narrator's yell, "Star of the future." During filming, he was filmed. His portrayal of a teenage father in BBC Two's Dive (2010) earned him critical praise; Euan Ferguson of The Guardian described it as "a performance by an actor twice his years: mesmerizing, comedic, and soulful." "He was a revelation; nuanced, underestimated, wise beyond his years," the Daily Telegraph critic Olly Grant wrote. O'Connell starred in another well-received BBC Two drama, United (2011), chronicling the 1958 Munich air crash that killed eight players of Manchester United, following a lead role in the Sky1 serial The Runaway (2011), set in the 1970s London criminal underworld.

Weekender, the theatrically released Weekender (2011), portrayed Manchester's burgeoning rave scene in the early 1990s. Despite poor reviews, Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph called O'Connell's "dumb but sparky sidekick" "a Godsend" and "a godsend." The thriller Tower Block (2012), about flat tenants under fire from a sniper, received mixed reviews, but as the building's security racket, Jordan Mintzer praised O'Connell as "the standout [of the cast]." He co-starred as the apprentice of a hitman played by Tim Roth in Private Peaceful (2012), a mixed reception.

O'Connell's career breakthrough came when he appeared in the independent prison drama Starred Up (2013). "O'Connell bristles with a horrific hair-trigger unpredictability," his portrayal of a violent teenager in the same prison as his father received acclaim; Entertainment Weekly contributor Chris Nashawaty wrote, "O'Connell bristles with obnoxious hair-trigger unpredictability." You're looking forward to the arrival of a new movie star by following him." Rolling Stone's Peter Travers described his "mad-dog incarnate" role as "a star-is-born appearance." O'Connell appeared in another well-known independent film, '71 (2014), depicting a soldier deployed to Belfast during time of political unrest in Northern Ireland. He was director Yann Demange's first and only pick for the role. "O'Connell is a brilliant actor, but here he holds the screen with no swagger," Nev Pierce wrote for Empire. He has been nominated for Best Actor by the British Independent Film Award for two years.

O'Connell played his first leading role in a big Hollywood movie, Unbroken (2014), directed by Angelina Jolie, following a supporting role as an Athenian warrior in his first blockbuster, 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). Louis Zamperini, an Italian-American Olympic distance runner who survived a plane crash over the Pacific and was sentenced to two years in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. To get fit for the position, he started losing nearly 30 pounds and working with a dialect coach to mask his thick Derbyshire accent. The resultant performance was well-received, according to Richard Corliss of Time, "Jolie has produced a grand, solid film of the Zamperini tale," aspired to be, but O'Connell was the part of Unbroken that was well worth the wait." The National Board of Review awarded O'Connell the Breakthrough Award for his role in Starred Up and Unbroken. In addition, he was the tenth recipient of the BAFTA Rising Star Award, which was also voted out. In August 2021, it was announced that O'Connell had appeared in a film adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, portraying the lover, Oliver.

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