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Josh O'Connor

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).

Filmography

2026
Disclosure Day
Movie
2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

as Fr. Jud Duplenticy

Movie
2025
Rebuilding

as Dusty

Movie
2025
The Mastermind

as James Blaine "JB" Mooney

Movie
2025
The History of Sound

as David

Movie
2024
Challengers

as Patrick Zweig

Movie
2023
La Chimera

as Arthur

Movie
2020
Emma.

as Mr. Elton

Movie
2017
God's Own Country

as Johnny Saxby

Movie
2016
The Crown

as Prince Charles

TV Show