Jack Laskey is an English actor best known for his theatre work and his role as DS Jakes in the ITV drama series '' Endeavour''. He is the third son of Michael Laskey, a poet. Laskey trained at the

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(RADA).

Television

Laskey played a recurring TV role as DS Peter Jakes in the ITV series '' Endeavour''. Between 2015 and 2017, Laskey played the role of Alfred Graves 'a young man with a gentle soul' who 'is burdened with an uncommon condition -

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in the TV show

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. Other television credits include Squirrel Huntin' Sam McCoy in the Emmy Award-nominated '' Hatfields And McCoys'', directed by Kevin Reynolds and

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. Laskey played the role of the Photographer in Joseph Pierce's animation ''A Family Portrait''.

Film

He made his film debut in 2011 as Carruthers in

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's '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows''. Laskey played the lead role of Konrad in producer

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's 2014 adaption of Joseph Conrad's short story '' The Secret Sharer''. Almost half of the lines Laskey speaks in the film are in

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- a language he had no previous knowledge of before starting work on the film. In 2015 he appeared in the

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film '' A Royal Night Out'', which starred

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and

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Theatre

With the

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in 2008, he played Bassanio in Tim Carroll's ''

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''; Biondello in ''

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''; and

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in Riot Group co-founder Adriano Shaplin's ''The Tragedy Of Thomas Hobbes'', directed by Elizabeth Freestone. Laskey has played at

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theatre: he worked with artistic director Dominic Dromgoole on two productions, playing four characters in Trevor Griffiths's "A New World: A Life Of Thomas Paine" and

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in "

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"; for two seasons he played

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's ''

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'', directed by John Dove; and in Thea Sharrock's 2009 production of "

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". He received an

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Commendation for his performance as

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. He has toured internationally with the

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theatre in two major productions: Luc Bondy's 2010 production of Schnitzler's "Sweet Nothings", in which he took the role of Theodore; and in 2011 he played The Other in

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's two hander "I Am The Wind",

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's only ever English language production. In 2013 at the Arcola theatre, Lasky played the role of Platonov in Helena Kaut-Hausen's production of "Sons Without Fathers", which received a positive review from Michael Billington. His early theatre credits include

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in ''

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'' (English Theatre of Vienna), Cornelius/Reynaldo in ''

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'' (Old Vic), Carney in ''

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'' (Couch Potato Productions),

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in an all-male production of

(Blood in the Alley), and

in ''

'' (Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke).

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

*
Jack Laskey
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laskey, Jack 1982 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Male actors from Ipswich Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors English male Shakespearean actors