Celebrated for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Peter Allen in the AACTA Award winning miniseries Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door. Joel received the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, the TV Week Logie Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer – Actor and a nomination for Best Actor in the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo Golden Nymph Awards.
Previously, Joel starred as Charles Bean in the award-winning World War I miniseries Deadline Gallipoli, airing to critical acclaim on Foxtel in 2015. Earning Joel a second AACTA Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, and a TV Week Logie Award nomination for Best New Talent.
Making his feature film debut alongside Daniel Radcliffe in the Greg Mclean directed adventure/thriller, Jungle. Joel’s latest film, H is for Happiness was awarded the CinefestOZ Film Prize 2019, received the Generation Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2020 and came second in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award 2019. Joel’s next feature, I Met A Girl, is currently in post production.
For TV Joel has starred in Channel 7’s 2019 smash hit, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries and in the International Emmy, Logie and AACTA Award winning SBS thriller, Safe Harbour, directed by Glendyn Ivin. Joel will appear in the new season of the critically acclaimed Mystery Road, directed by Wayne Blair and Warwick Thornton.
Joel’s theatre productions include Melbourne Theatre Company’s revival of the classic Born Yesterday by Garson Karnin, directed by Dean Bryant.
Originally from North West Australia, Joel was recognised as the region’s Young Australian of the Year in 2010 and is a passionate ambassador to organisations Soldier On and the Australian Children’s Music Foundation.
Ms Fisher Modern, Season 2
ACORN TV
In this spin-off to the wildly popular Australian mystery series, Phryne Fisher's long-lost niece, Peregrine (Geraldine Hakewill, Wanted), decides to follow in her stylish footsteps as a lady detective for a new era. With the help of the handsome, straitlaced Detective James Steed (Joel Jackson, Peter Allen) and a group of accomplished women, Peregrine investigates murders in 1960s Melbourne.
I Met A Girl
Dir. Luke Eve
An aspiring musician embarks on an epic, cross-country journey to find the woman of his dreams - who may be all in his head.
Joel stars alongside Brenton Thwaites, Lily Sullivan and the brilliant Zahra Newman. I Met A Girl is now available on Netflix AU/NZ.
MYSTERY ROAD 2
A mangrove swamp. An endless sky. A headless body.
Detective Jay Swan takes on a grisly new case in a new town in order to be closer to his family, but has he left it too late? Set in a small coastal community where the desert meets the ocean, secrets past and present run deep and dark. Jay must reconcile the law and deep lore and confront a dangerous enemy in a world where deception is king
MYSTERY ROAD 2
Dir. Warwick Thornton and Wayne Blair
H is for HAPPINESS
Dir. John Sheedy
H is for Happiness
A twelve year old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world, is inspired by the strange new boy at school and sets out to mend her broken family - whatever it takes.
CinefestOZ Film Prize Winner, 2019
2nd Prize, People’s Choice Award, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2019
Generation Prize, Berlin International Film Festival, 2020
MS FISHER’S MODERN MURDER MYSTERIES
The spin-off series of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries follows Peregrine Fisher as she takes up her Aunt's mantle of sleuthing in 1960's Melbourne. Starring Geraldine Hakewill, Joel Jackson and Catherine McClements.
Ms Fisher Modern plays in the US on Acorn TV and the UK on Alibi Channel.
MS FISHER MODERN
SAFE HARBOUR
Dir. Glendyn Ivin
JUNGLE
Based on the true-life international best-selling memoir by Yossi Ghinsberg, this is a gut-churning tale of survival. A film that marches to the delirious beat of its own hallucinogenic drum, Jungle bows inventively before the bad guy to end all bad guys: Mother Nature.
Best Feature Film, Byron Bay International Film Festival, 2017
Melbourne International Film Festival, Opening Night Film, 2017
Safe harbour
On a yachting holiday, five Australians come across a broken-down fishing boat, full of desperate asylum seekers. The Australians decide to help, but when they wake the next morning the fishing boat is gone. Five years later they meet some of the refugees again and learn the truth. Old secrets come to light, relationships are shattered and lives are put in danger. And one question hangs over it all – who cut the rope?
International Emmy Award, Best TV Mini Series, Won, 2019
AACTA Award, Best Direction, Glendyn Ivin, Won, 2018
AACTA Award for Best Screenplay, Won, 2018
JUNGLE
Dir. Greg Mclean
PETER ALLEN;
NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR
Dir. Shawn Seet
DEADLINE GALLIPOLI
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
DEADLINE GALLIPOLI won Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards for Cinematography and Sound and an Australian Writers’ Guild for Best Writing.
AACTA Award for Best Actor, Joel Jackson, Nominee, 2015
Logie Award for Best Newcomer, Joel Jackson, Nominee, 2015
AACTA Award for Best Sound, Won, 2015
AACTA Award for Best Cinematography, Geoffrey Hall, Won, 2015
Australian Writers Guild, Best TV Mini Series, Won, 2015
AACTA Award for Best Direction, Michael Rymer, Nominee, 2015
AACTA Award for Best Screenplay, Nominee, 2015
PETER ALLen; NOt the boy next door
The two part mini-series tells the remarkable story of Peter Allen's rise from country New South Wales to the Hollywood Hills, becoming part of American royalty along the way.
AACTA Award for Best Actor, Joel Jackson, Won, 2015
Logie Award, Most Outstanding Newcomer, Joel Jackson, Won, 2015
Golden Nymph Award, Best Actor, Joel Jackson, Nominee, 2016
AACTA Award for Best Mini-Series, Won, 2015
AACTA Award for Best Direction, Shawn Seet, Won, 2015
AACTA Award for Best Screenplay, Michael Miller, Won, 2015
Australian Directors Guild Awards, Best Direction, Won, 2016
DEADLINE GALLIPOLI
Dir. Michael Rymer
THE HUNTED
Dir. Benn Jae
THE HUNTED
Violet is an independent, artistic and spirited woman feeling modern pressure to commit to a relationship. She has been involved in a passionate love affair with Mac who, while being the man of her dreams, has shown some disturbing signs of deep emotional trauma. Violet must fight for her life before his desire to control her snuffs out her precious light.
Gold Movie Awards, Best Film, Winner 2019
Maryland International Film Festival, Best Short, Nominee 2019
New Vision International Film Festival, Best Short, Nominee 2019
St Kilda Film Festival, Best Short Film, Nominee 2019
STRANGER
A mysterious wanderer drifts through an Australian outback mining town until an unexpected connection with a motel maid leaves him to confronting his own identity.
Produced and story by Joel Jackson. STRANGER screened at Flickerfest and St Kilda Film Festival.
Award of Excellence, Global Shorts Awards, Los Angeles, 2017
Audience Award for Best Short Film, NewFilmmakers, Los Angeles, 2018
STRANGER