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Jack O'Connell

Jack O'Connell

8 films · 638 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20082025

Born 1 August 1990 · Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK

Jack O'Connell 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.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 638 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20082025

  • Trophée Chopard

How their films are shot

Measured across 638 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jack takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 8 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 48% low key — the look of the work Jack takes.

Time of day

Day47%
Night42%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Low key48%
Natural41%
Silhouette5%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium46%
Wide21%
Closeup21%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
Low angle10%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral53%
Tense20%
Lonely11%
Ominous5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 638 frames from Jack O'Connell's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.