Josh O'Connor

Josh O'Connor (born in 1989/1990) is a British actor. He portrayed a young Charles III in the Netflix drama The Crown (2019–2020), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and received nominations for two British Academy Television Awards. O'Connor also played the roles of Johnny Saxby in Francis Lee's God's Own Country (2017), for which he won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, Lawrence Durrell in the ITV series The Durrells (2016–2019), and Marius Pontmercy in BBC One's miniseries of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables (2019). O'Connor was born to John, a teacher, and Emily, a midwife. He grew up in Newbury until he was five, when his family moved to Cheltenham, Gloucestershire where he was brought up. The middle son in a family of three boys, his older brother is an artist and his younger brother Seb is an ecological economist and a PhD researcher.