Jack McMullen
Jack Michael McMullen is an English actor and writer, best known for his roles in Brookside, Doctors, Grange Hill, Waterloo Road, Common, Together, Maigret Sets a Trap, Little Boy Blue, The First Team, Time, Hijack, and This City Is Ours.
Career
As a child actor, McMullen made his television debut as Josh McLoughlin on the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, playing the role from 2002 until the show's final episode in November 2003. He won two British Soap Awards for his role in the show; the first for Best Newcomer, and the second for Best On-Screen Partnership with co-star Sarah White. In 2004, McMullen went on to appear as Timothy "Tigger" Johnson in the long-running BBC One children's television serial, Grange Hill.He was in an episode of the BBC One drama series The Street, then appeared in The Bill. Next, he starred in BBC Switch's Proper Messy.
He played half of a young gay couple who run away from their homes in an episode of the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors.
From 2010 to 2012, he played troublemaker Finn Sharkey in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road. On 4 June 2011 he appeared in the BBC One medical drama series Casualty, as Ethan, the friend of a patient. On 27 December 2011, McMullen appeared in Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me.
In 2013, McMullen appeared in the film The Knife That Killed Me.
In June 2021, McMullen starred alongside Sean Bean and Stephen Graham in the BBC prison based series Time.
in 2023, he starred alongside Idris Elba, Neil Maskell, and Max Beesley for 7 episodes of the Apple TV+ aeroplane drama series Hijack.
In March 2025, he played the main role of Jamie Phelan, son of drug lord Ronnie Phelan, and Elaine Phelan, alongside James Nelson-Joyce, in the BBC One Liverpool based gangster television series, This City Is Ours.