Apolitical Romance

Joshua Mathias O'Connor (born 20 May 1990) is an English actor. From 2016 to 2019, he had a major role portraying Larry Durrell in ITV's The Durrells. He had his breakthrough playing the lead role of a gay sheep farmer in Francis Lee's romantic drama God's Own Country (2017), for which he won the BIFA Award for Best Actor. O'Connor gained recognition for his portrayal of Charles, Prince of Wales, in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role. He has since starred in the period drama Emma (2020), Italian adventure La chimera (2023), heated romance Challengers (2024), heist drama The Mastermind (2025), tragic romance The History of Sound (2025), murder mystery Wake Up Dead Man (2025), and science fiction thriller Disclosure Day (2026).