Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

2004-02-05

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

James O'Donoghue

Biography

James O'Donoghue (born 5 February 2004) is an Irish-American actor. He began his career appearing in the Irish television series Fair City (2012). He is best known for his role as the troubled teenager Calum Dwyer in the BBC drama Smother, as well as Luka Otis in AMC and Sundance Now's supernatural thriller Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale (2025). More recently, O'Donoghue gained further international recognition after being cast as Joey Lynch in Prime Video's highly anticipated series adaptation of Boys of Tommen.

Known for

Smother

On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.

Boys of Tommen

Follow the forbidden love story of Johnny Kavanagh, the star rugby player on the verge of a pro career, and Shannon Lynch, the talented but painfully shy new girl at the prestigious private school of Tommen College in Ballylaggin, Ireland.

13 Steps Down

Mix Cellini is a young man with a disturbed past. He rents the top floor of a dilapidated Notting Hill residence in which a lonely spinster in her mid-70s lives. Two obsessions in Mix's life are supermodel Nerissa Nash, who he adores and stalks, and infamous serial killer John Reginald Christie. Mix treads a fine line between reality and fantasy, and his obsessions collide when he unleashes long pent-up violence after his part-time girlfriend criticises his beloved Nerissa.