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 on three films in 2025, 2026 is set to be a huge year. The upcoming titles are Jaume Collet-Serra’s World War II feature Play Dead, the lead in John Soto’s action horror Dead Howling, with Joel also an Associate Producer on the title, and the adventure epid Psyche for Agustina San-Martin. Joel’s latest release Kangaroo Island debuted at the Number Two spot on Netflix Australia this January and was also the closing night film of the Adelaide Film Festival and Chelsea Film Festival in New York City. 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.