Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3362
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jack O'Connell works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jack O'Connell appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jack. Sinners is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with John Krasinski, Danny Boyle, Nia DaCosta and others, Jack O'Connell helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Sinners (2025) as Remmick · Sinners (2025) as Remmick · This Is England (2007) as Pukey Nicholls
Career snapshot
Ranked #3362 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2007–2027
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Sinners
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Sinners
Most frequent director
Danny Boyle
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Danny Boyle
Most common genre
Drama
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Harry Brown, Eden Lake, This Is England — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Harry Brown, Eden Lake, This Is England.
Most productive era
2020s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.22 films | 6.67 films | 6.07 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | 6.32 films | 3.82 films |
| Thriller | 6.82 films | 6.33 films | 6.05 films |
| Crime | 7.22 films | 7.01 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film | 6.92 films |
| Horror | 6.81 film | — | 6.05 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007This Is England
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Pukey Nicholls.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Sinners
8.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
23 of 23 films
as Remmick
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as Louis Zamperini
Directed by Angelina Jolie
as Remmick
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as Cameron Todd Willingham
Directed by Edward Zwick
as Sir Jimmy Crystal
Directed by Nia DaCosta
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 26 titles · 27 total credits · active 2007–2027
A Quiet Place Part III
2027 · Actor
Ink
2027 · Larry Lamb
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027 · Actor
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026 · Sir Jimmy Crystal
Sinners
2025 · Remmick
28 Years Later
2025 · Jimmy Crystal
Back to Black
2024 · Blake
Ferrari
2023 · Peter Collins
Lady Chatterley's Lover
2022 · Oliver Mellors
SAS Rogue Heroes
2022 · TV · Paddy Mayne · Executive Producer
Little Fish
2021 · Jude
The North Water
2021 · TV · Patrick Sumner
Jungleland
2020 · Walter 'Lion' Kaminski
Trial by Fire
2019 · Cameron Todd Willingham
Seberg
2019 · Jack Solomon
Tulip Fever
2017 · Willem Brok
The Man with the Iron Heart
2017 · Jan Kubiš
Godless
2017 · TV · Roy Goode
Money Monster
2016 · Kyle Budwell
Unbroken
2014 · Louis Zamperini
300: Rise of an Empire
2014 · Calisto
United
2011 · Bobby Charlton
Harry Brown
2009 · Marky
Eden Lake
2008 · Brett
The defining work
#1
Remmick
Sinners (2025)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Remmick gives Jack O'Connell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Louis Zamperini
Unbroken (2014)
Performance score8.0
Unbroken asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Louis Zamperini is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Remmick
Sinners (2025)
Performance score7.7
Sinners asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Remmick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cameron Todd Willingham
Trial by Fire (2019)
Performance score7.6
Trial by Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cameron Todd Willingham is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Remmick
Start here. Sinners is the clearest statement of what Jack O'Connell does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jack at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Unbroken (2014)
Keeps the drama register of Sinners but asks for a colder reading of it.
Trial by Fire (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Unbroken but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sinners (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Trial by Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
Keeps the horror register of Sinners but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together
Notably Sinners
Danny Boyle
Director
2 films together
Notably 28 Years Later
Shane Meadows
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is England
James Watkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Eden Lake
James Strong
Director
1 film together
Notably United
Angelina Jolie
Director
1 film together
Notably Unbroken
Jodie Foster
Director
1 film together
Notably Money Monster
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Heart
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Tulip Fever
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Trial by Fire
Max Winkler
Director
1 film together
Notably Jungleland
Chad Hartigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Fish
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady Chatterley's Lover
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Ferrari
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Back to Black
Nia DaCosta
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
John Krasinski
Director
1 film together
Notably A Quiet Place Part III
Michael B. Jordan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Hailee Steinfeld
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Miles Caton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Wunmi Mosaku
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jayme Lawson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Omar Benson Miller
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Delroy Lindo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Li Jun Li
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Yao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Lola Kirke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Peter Dreimanis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Buddy Guy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ryan Coogler
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SinnersDanny Boyle
Director
2 films together · 3.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
28 Years LaterShane Meadows
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is EnglandAngelina Jolie
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnbrokenNia DaCosta
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Years Later: The Bone TempleChad Hartigan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little FishEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Trial by FireJames Strong
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnitedJames Watkins
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eden LakeSam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Back to BlackLaure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady Chatterley's LoverCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron HeartJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tulip FeverMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FerrariMax Winkler
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JunglelandJodie Foster
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Money MonsterJohn Krasinski
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Quiet Place Part IIISix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Sinners
as Remmick
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
United
as Bobby Charlton
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sinners
as Remmick
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
United
as Bobby Charlton
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sinners
as Remmick
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Jack O'Connell has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.8 | 7.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #588 of 681 | #486 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | Unknown |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.7 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller, Drama | Crime, Thriller, Action, Horror |
| Directors | Ryan Coogler | Michael Mann, Jonathan Demme |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Intensity, Villain presence, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2025–2025 | 1991–1995 |
| Most iconic role | Remmick — Sinners | Jame Gumb — The Silence of the Lambs |
| Most rewatchable film | Sinners | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Best Horror Movies, Horror Movies, Thriller Movies
Our editors cannot separate them on the catalogue as it stands. Jack O'Connell and Ted Levine score within a rounding error of each other.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
20 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
16 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Sinners
as Remmick
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sinners
as Remmick
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Back to Black
as Blake
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
This Is England
as Pukey Nicholls
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sinners
as Remmick
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Unbroken
as Louis Zamperini
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sinners
as Remmick
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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