The Crown
2016
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In 2021, O'Connor won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role as Charles, Prince of Wales in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020). He has since starred in the period drama Emma (2020), the comedy-drama La Chimera (2023) and the romantic sports film Challengers (2024).
- Actor
- 1989 or 1990 (age 32–33), Southampton, England
- 2012–present
- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
He has become known to a wide audience for portraying Prince Charles in the Netflix series The Crown, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA. He is also known from God's Own Country (2017), and the series The Durrells and Les Misérables.
- January 1, 1
- 1.85 m
- Cheltenham, England, UK
- He initially didn't want to audition for The Crown. Despite playing such a famed member of the Royal family, O’Connor at first had no interest in auditioning for the role of Prince Charles.
- He won an Emmy the first time he attended the awards ceremony. After a two-season stint as a young Prince Charles in The Crown, O’Connor won his very first Primetime Emmy Award for the role in 2021, which, coincidentally, was the first time he ever attended the ceremony.
- He’s helped birth over 150 lambs. O’Connor didn’t grow up on a farm, but picked up farm skills later, during the filming for God’s Own Country (2017). In the film, O’Connor played Johnny Saxby, a young sheep farmer whose life is changed by a Romanian worker (played by Baptiste star Alec Secareanu) he meets.
- Drama helped him live with dyslexia. O’Connor has discussed what it is like having dyslexia, something the actor admitted to living with for many years.
Sep 2, 2023 · ‘The Crown’ Star Josh O’Connor Says He Struggled With Fame From Netflix Series: “It Was a F***ed-Up Time” The Emmy-winning actor portrayed Prince Charles on the hit show. By Carly Thomas
- Carly Thomas
Sep 19, 2021 · ‘The Crown’ Star Josh O’Connor Wins Emmy for Best Lead Drama Actor. He takes home the award with his first nomination for the Netflix series.
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Nov 18, 2020 · In the Season 4 finale of “The Crown,” O’Connor does just that: Dared in a way by Morgan, he drops Charles’s polished facade and furiously rips into Diana about Camilla.
Nov 11, 2021 · Before his turn as a conflicted survivor of the first world war in Mothering Sunday, the star of God’s Own Country, The Durrells and The Crown answers your questions
