Jack Whitehall
Biography
Jack Whitehall is an English comedian and actor who also writes and presents for television. He started out on the comedy circuit, and his first solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009 brought him a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. He also wrote and performed five stand-up tours. His first acting role was JP, a public school boy, in the Channel 4 series Fresh Meat, and he then created and starred in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education as the teacher Alfie Wickers. He co-wrote that show and its film version, The Bad Education Movie (2015). Between 2012 and 2018 he was a regular panelist on the game show A League of Their Own, and he took over as host of the BRIT Awards in 2018, returning to the job in later years. He also presented the Netflix travel documentary series Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father.
38years old
Turns 39 on July 7in 279 days
- Born Westminster
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 9 years2015 to 2024
Genres
- Comedy88%, 7 films
- Adventure63%, 5 films
- Fantasy38%, 3 films
- Animation25%, 2 films
- Documentary13%, 1 film
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A role that slipped away
For the title part in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Jack Whitehall tried out, yet the casting director was not impressed with him since he had not read the novel.
First role
Whitehall's first solo stand-up show, Nearly Rebellious, played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2009 and earned him a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
A first
Whitehall, Dara Ó Briain and Jon Richardson shared a Guinness World Records title on 12 March. The trio earned it by hosting a stand-up comedy gig billed as the highest in the world, staged on a British Airways flight for Comic Relief.
First role
Whitehall took a sketch show called Comic Abuse to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before starting stand-up at the Pleasance Theatre's Comedy Reserve showcase.
Behind the camera
Whitehall co-wrote and starred in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education as Alfie, a teacher described as the worst ever to grace the British education system.
Jack Whitehall movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Jack Whitehall shares two films with Kenan Thompson, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Kenan Thompson's page
Morgan Freeman's page
Helen Mirren's page
Paul Giamatti's page
John Cleese's page
Richard E. Grant's page
Jaume Collet-SerraDirector, 1 film, 2021
All films by Jaume Collet-Serra
All films by Joe Johnston
Lasse HallströmDirector, 1 film, 2018
All films by Lasse Hallström
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.