Joel Jackson
An award winning actor, singer/songwriter and writer, Joel Jackson is a Menang Noongar man from the Wagyl Kaip region, raised on Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi country.
Having recently completed production of Jaume Collet-Serra’s World War II feature Play Dead, Joel will next be seen in the feature Kangaroo Island, which was the closing night film of the Adelaide Film Festival. In 2024, Joel appeared in the AACTA nominated feature films Just a Farmer and RUNT, with previous feature credits including I Met a Girl (2021), the multi award winning H is for Happiness (2019) and Greg McLean’s highly acclaimed action-adventure film Jungle (2017).
On television Joel’s outstanding list of credits includes Scrublands: Silver (2024), the special event miniseries The Claremont Murders (2023). Previously he starred as Detective James Steed in Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, as well as appearing in the ABC’s Mystery Road (2020) - which opened the Berlinale TV Festival, the AACTA and International Emmy award-winning mini-series Safe Harbour (2018), The Wrong Girl (2017) and Hyde and Seek (2016). Celebrated for his highly acclaimed portrayal of Peter Allen in Channel Seven’s AACTA Award-winning miniseries Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door (2015), Joel received the AACTA for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama and the TV Week Logie for Most Outstanding Newcomer – Actor. Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door was also nominated for the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo Golden Nymph Awards, with Joel nominated in the Outstanding Actor category.
Upon graduating from NIDA in 2013, Joel’s was cast as Charles Bean in the award-winning World War I miniseries Deadline Gallipoli (2015), earning him a second AACTA Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama in the same year and category that he won for Peter Allen.
On stage, Joel was awarded Best Supporting Actor in the award winning 2024 and 2023 seasons and Australian tour of Barracking for the Umpire, he led The Glass Menagerie and starred in the 2024 Perth Festival sellout season of The Pool, all for Black Swan State Theatre Company. Other appearances include alongside Virginia Gay in Cyrano (Black Swan & Melbourne Theatre Company) and Born Yesterday (MTC).
A talented singer/songwriter and musician, Joel is also a writer and producer.
Awards
Stellar Short Film Festival, Best Performance (Nominee), 2023 - Raising Thunder
PAWA - Best Supporting Actor, 2022 - Barracking for the Umpire,
Monte Carlo International Film & TV Festival, Best Actor in a TV Drama Series (Nominee), 2015 - Peter Allen; Not the Boy Next Door
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (Winner) Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, 2015 - Peter Allen; Not the Boy Next Door
TV Week Logie - Most Outstanding Newcomer (Winner), 2015
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (Nominee) Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, 2015 - Deadline Gallipoli
TV Week Logie (Nominee) - Best New Talent, 2015 - Peter Allen; Not the Boy Next Door & Deadline Gallipoli
IMDb
Representation
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