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Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for playing James Cook in the British television series Skins (2009–2010, 2013). He is also known for his roles in This Is England (2006), the slasher film Eden Lake (2008), the television dramas Dive (2010) and United (2011), and the Netflix Wild West miniseries Godless (2017), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. O'Connell gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films Starred Up (2013) and '71 (2014), garnering nominations for the British Independent Film Awards. He subsequently starred as war hero Louis Zamperini in the war film Unbroken (2014) and received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He has since starred in the thriller Money Monster (2016), the biographical drama Trial by Fire (2018), the BBC miniseries The North Water (2021), the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022–2025), the Amy Winehouse biographical film Back to Black (2024) and the period horror film Sinners (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack O'Connell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This prestige six-part limited series is a sweeping, unflinching adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic masterpiece, tracing Oliver Twist’s perilous journey through the starkly divided world of Victorian England. Born in the squalor of a provincial parish workhouse and subjected to the institutional cruelty of the pompous beadle Mr. Bumble, Oliver commits the ultimate act of rebellion by asking for more gruel. Cast out and apprenticed to a grim undertaker, he violently defends his dead mother’s honor before fleeing down a grueling 70-mile road to London. In the city's foggy, labyrinthine underworld, he is taken in by the charismatic Artful Dodger and inducted into a juvenile pickpocket ring run by the enigmatic fence Fagin. When a botched theft exposes Oliver to the gentle aristocracy of Mr. Brownlow and the Maylie family, a deadly tug-of-war begins for the boy’s soul. Unbeknownst to Oliver, a shadowy figure named Monks is conspiring with Fagin to destroy the boy's reputation and steal his rightful inheritance. The stakes escalate into a dark psychological thriller as the tragic Nancy risks her life to expose the plot, igniting a wave of violence from her abusive, terrifying lover Bill Sikes that culminates in a gripping rooftop manhunt. Blending gritty social realism with a high-stakes family mystery, the series exposes the systemic rot of the Victorian class system while charting Oliver's harrowing path toward justice, redemption, and the warmth of a true home.
