Joel Jackson

Joel Jackson is an Australian actor and musician. He came to prominence for his performances as Charles Bean in Deadline Gallipoli and Peter Allen in Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door. For both roles he was nominated for the 2015 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, winning for Peter Allen. Since 2019 he has co-starred as Detective James Steed in Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries. Early life Jackson was born in Albany, Western Australia. When Jackson was 10, his family moved nearly 2000 km north to Karratha after his father was offered a job as the primary school principal. He became head boy at Karratha Senior High School. At 17, Jackson went on a year-long Rotary exchange to Brazil. He returned home with a large circle and symbol tattooed under his left biceps. Jackson initially wanted to pursue a musical career. He first began playing guitar at age 14 and supported Birds of Tokyo, Megan Washington, Diesel and Ian Moss in Karratha. Jackson traveled to Perth to record an EP.