Cal O'Driscoll
Cal Arnold O'Driscoll is an Irish actor and filmmaker. He was named Ireland’s youngest film-maker of the year in 2020 at the Fresh Film Festival. In 2025, he won the Breakthrough Talent Award at the Royal Television Society Republic of Ireland Awards. His television roles have included Prince Edward in Netflix historical drama series Vikings: Valhalla, and the role of Con in comedy-horror series Video Nasty.
Career
He is from Dublin, Ireland, and started-out in production as a young man, initially making YouTube videos at the age of eight years-old. In 2020, won the title of Ireland's Young Filmmaker of the Year 2020 at the Fresh Film Festival. This Came about following the production of his film Pirates, which is centred around a pirate radio station and set in the 1980s. As an actor he appeared in The Windermere Children, a BBC film, in 2020.He played Prince Edward in Netflix historical drama series Vikings: Valhalla. In 2024, he had roles in Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale and Channel 5 thriller series The Teacher. He also played John in the Ariane Labed independent film September Says, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2025, he could be seen in a lead role in 1980s-set comedy-horror series Video Nasty from Christopher Smith in which he led the cast alongside
Justin Daniels Anene and Leia Murphy. He was awarded the Breakthrough Talent Award at the Royal Television Society Republic of Ireland Awards, held in Dublin on 27 March 2025. In January 2026, he nominated at the Irish Film & Television Awards for best supporting actor.