Joel Jackson
Actor | Albany Ambassador
Joel Jackson is a CinefestOz Ambassador, Logie and Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award winning actor, writer and producer. Best known for his TV role in Peter Allen; Not the Boy Next Door, Joel’s numbering TV credits include Deadline Gallipoli, Hyde & Seek, The Wrong Girl, Safe Harbour, Mystery Road 2, The Claremont Murders and Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries. Joel’s feature film credits include I Met A Girl, CinefestOz award winner H is for Happiness, Jungle, Just A Farmer and the upcoming adaptation of Craig Silvey’s award winning book Runt and the feature Kangaroo Island. As writer and producer, Joel’s short film Stranger has won multiple awards internationally and screened at Flickerfest and the St Kilda Film Festivals. For the stage, Joel has appeared in Barracking for the Umpire, The Pool, The Glass Menagerie (Black Swan State Theatre), Cyrano (Black Swan & Melbourne Theatre Company) and Born Yesterday (MTC). His podcast Journey by Joel Jackson features original fictional short stories and short stoic gems, listened to in over 50 countries.
