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![]() Whitehall in 2015 | |
Born | Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall 7 July 1988 |
Education | University of Manchester |
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Years active | 1993–present |
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Children | 1 |
Father | Michael Whitehall |
Website | jackwhitehall |
Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall (born 7 July 1988) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is known for his roles as JP in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Fresh Meat (2011–2016) and as Alfie Wickers in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education (2012–2014, 2022) also co-writing the latter and its film adaptation, The Bad Education Movie (2015).
From 2012 to 2018, Whitehall was a regular panelist on the comedy game show A League of Their Own. In 2017, he appeared alongside his father, Michael Whitehall, in the Netflix comedy documentary series Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father and starred in the BBC comedy-drama series Decline and Fall. From 2018 to 2021, he hosted the BRIT Awards.
Whitehall performed his first stand-up comedy show at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for which he was nominated for 'Best Newcomer' at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.[1] He has written and performed five stand-up tours: Jack Whitehall Live (2010–2011), Gets Around (2014), At Large (2017), Stood Up (2019), and Settle Down (2023-2024).