Josh O'Connor
Actor · Writer · Composer
Born May 20, 1990 · Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Josh O'Connor is a British actor known for his roles in God's Own Country, The Crown, Emma, and La Chimera. He won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of a young Charles III in The Crown. His breakthrough role was playing the lead in Francis Lee's romantic drama God's Own Country.
Biography
Joshua Mathias O'Connor (born May 20, 1990) is a British actor. After training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he had supporting roles in television series such as Doctor Who in 2013 and Peaky Blinders in 2014. He had his breakthrough playing the lead role of a sheep farmer in Francis Lee's romantic drama God's Own Country (2017), for which he won a British Independent Film Award.
For portraying a young Charles III in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020), O'Connor won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. He has since starred in the period dramas Emma (2020) and La Chimera (2023) as well as Luca Guadagnino's Challengers (2024) and Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man (2025).
Selected Filmography
- Disclosure Day(2026)
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery(2025)
- Cinderella(2015)
- Challengers(2024)
- Lee(2024)
- Emma.(2020)
- La Chimera(2023)
- God's Own Country(2017)
- Hope Gap(2019)
- Mothering Sunday(2021)
- The Mastermind(2025)
- The History of Sound(2025)
- Florence Foster Jenkins(2016)
- The Riot Club(2014)
- The Program(2015)
- Rebuilding(2025)
- Dark Matter
- National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet(2021)
- Hide and Seek(2014)
- Aisha(2022)