Josh O’Connor

Acting


Biography

Josh graduated from the School in 2011 and had his break out role in God’s Own Country (2017), for which he won the BIFA Award for Best Actor.

Since then Josh has stared in multiple roles on TV and the big screen including Netflix’s The Crown portraying Prince Charles winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Emma (2020), La Chimera (2023) Challengers (2024).

Upcoming films include The History of Sound (2025) and The Mastermind (2025).

It was always stressed that the contacts you make during your training are incredibly important, and your classmates are likely to end up being on set alongside you in the future. After working with a director of photography on one of the School’s short films, I was invited to work on a project with him outside of Bristol - proving that the professionals we meet via the School, may one day give us a call to action! Muir McFadden, Technical Graduate