Jack Reynor
Jack Reynor is an actor, born 1992.
Jack Reynor was born in Colorado and made in Ireland. What Richard Did won him the IFTA for best lead actor in 2012, and Sing Street won him a second one for supporting in 2016. In between, Hollywood took a look and cast him in Transformers: Age of Extinction, which is the sort of thing that happens to a promising young actor and almost never helps.
The performance that defines him is Christian in Midsommar. It is a hard part, because the character is not a villain, only weak: inattentive, defensive, dishonest in small increments, unable to end something he stopped wanting. Most actors would soften that or tip it into monstrousness. Reynor plays it flat and recognisable, and the film is a great deal crueller for it.
Elsewhere he tends to play warmth. Brendan in Sing Street is the older brother who has quietly given up on his own life and pours it into his younger brother's, and it is the most likeable thing he has done. The rest is a working actor's mix: support in Macbeth, Detroit, Free Fire and On the Basis of Sex, television in Strange Angel and The Peripheral, and Flora and Son back home. He plays Charlie Cannon in Lee Cronin's The Mummy in 2026.
Movies (19)
- Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026)
- Power Ballad (2026)
- Midsommar (2019)
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
- Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
- Sing Street (2016)
- The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
- Cherry (2021)
- Macbeth (2015)
- Free Fire (2017)
- Detroit (2017)
- Delivery Man (2013)
- Kin (2018)
- On the Basis of Sex (2018)
- Flora and Son (2023)
- The Secret Scripture (2017)
- The Good Mother (2023)
- Evolution Within Extinction (2014)
- A Royal Night Out (2015)
TV (5)
Where to start with Jack Reynor
Come in through Sing Street, the performance most people love him for. He plays an older brother giving music lessons that are really life lessons, and he does it without a trace of sentimentality.
Then Midsommar, the essential one and a genuinely uncomfortable watch, because Reynor commits fully to being the sort of boyfriend everyone has either had or been. The Peripheral is the best television, a science fiction series in which he plays the brother holding a family together with barely any dialogue spent on it. Free Fire is the funniest thing on the list, a scuzzy one-room shootout comedy. Detroit and Macbeth are supporting turns in heavier films. Flora and Son is the recent Irish one worth catching, and Transformers: Age of Extinction is the paycheque you can skip without missing anything about him.