Joel Jackson

Joel Jackson is a highly accomplished Australian actor and musician with numerous television, film and stage credits to his name. He is best known for his award-winning lead role in the biographical miniseries Peter Allen; Not the Boy Next Door, for which he won both the Logie and an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award for Best Actor. Jackson has appeared in a number of television series including Deadline Gallipoli, Hyde & Seek, The Wrong Girl, Safe Harbour, Mystery Road, Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries and The Claremont Murders. He has also had roles in several feature films, such as I Met A Girl, H is for Happiness and Jungle, and his latest feature Just A Farmer is set to premiere late 2023. In addition to his work as an actor, Jackson is also an accomplished producer. His short film Stranger has won multiple awards internationally and has been screened at major film festivals such as Flickerfest and the St Kilda Film Festival. He has also appeared in several stage productions, including Cyrano, Barracking for the Umpire, The Glass Menagerie, Born Yesterday and Midsummer Night's Dream. An accomplished musician and singer, Joel's latest single Currents; Live at Glebe Town Hall was produced by multi ARIA award winner Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe) and mastered by eight-time golden guitar winner Rod McCormack (Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers, Lee Kernaghan). Beyond his work in entertainment, Jackson is also an active humanitarian. In 2021, he completed The Lap; A Live Ride a 45-day, 12,000km motorbike ride around Western Australia with his parents to raise money for Telethon, a charity that supports sick and disadvantaged children. He also serves as an ambassador for CinefestOz, CinefestOz Albany and the Australian Children’s Music Foundation, and was named Young Australian of the Year in 2011 for North Western Australia.