Jack Whitehall

Jack Whitehall
Whitehall in 2015
Born	Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall (1988-07-07) 7 July 1988 (age 36) London, England
Education	University of Manchester
Occupations	Comedian actor writer television personality
Years active	1993–present
Partners	Gemma Chan (2011–2017) Roxy Horner (2020–present)
Children	1
Father	Michael Whitehall
Website	jackwhitehall.com

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, 2022–2024) 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, and again in 2025, 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).