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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).
33 Videos. 91 Photos. Josh O'Connor is a British actor, originally from Cheltenham, England. He trained as an actor at the 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.
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- 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.
Mini Bio. Josh O'Connor is a British actor, originally from Cheltenham, England. He trained as an actor at the 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.
- May 20, 1990
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. By Rick Porter. September 19, 2021 8:24pm. Josh...
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Mar 28, 2021 · 28 March 2021. By Vincent Dowd,Arts correspondent, BBC News. Rob Youngson. Jessie Buckley and Josh O'Connor star in the National Theatre's film of Romeo and Juliet. Josh O'Connor and...
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. “A lot of these ...
