Jack O'Connell

'Jack O'Connell' (qv) was born in Alvaston, Derby, England, to Alison J. (Gutteridge) and John Patrick O'Connell. His mother is English, and worked at British Midland, and his father was Irish (from County Kerry), and worked on the railways for Bombardier. Jack went to Saint Benedict Catholic School, and began acting professionally playing Connor Yates in a 2005 episode of the television series _Doctors (2000)_ (qv). His subsequent TV roles included 4 episodes of _The Bill (1984)_ (qv), 6 of _The Runaway (2010)_ (qv), and 18 of the popular teen drama _Skins (2007)_ (qv).He made his film debut playing Pukey Nicholls in 2006's _This Is England (2006)_ (qv), later co-starring in _Eden Lake (2008)_ (qv), _Harry Brown (2009)_ (qv), _Private Peaceful (2012)_ (qv) and _The Somnambulists (2011)_ (qv), before receiving critical acclaim for his lead roles as a jailed teenager in _Starred Up (2013)_ (qv) and a British soldier in Belfast in _'71 (2014)_ (qv).O'Connell made his Hollywood debut as Greek soldier Calisto in the graphic novel-based action-war film _300: Rise of an Empire (2014)_ (qv), and then played Olympic distance runner and World War II POW 'Louis Zamperini' (qv) in the 'Angelina Jolie' (qv)-directed war drama _Unbroken (2014)_ (qv). His upcoming roles include _The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)_ (qv) and _Money Monster (2016)_ (qv), the latter with 'George Clooney' (qv) and 'Julia Roberts' (qv).::anonymous