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Jack Whitehall

Date of birth: 07-07-1988

The son of actress Hilary and agent Michael, Jack Whitehall was a child actor in various television dramas before beginning his comedy career while studying at the University of Manchester, first performing stand-up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009. He gained early television exposure as a panellist on shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats and A League of Their Own.

His breakthrough came with the Channel 4 sitcom Fresh Meat (2011-2016), where he played JP. He subsequently starred in and co-wrote Bad Education (2012-2014), a BBC Three comedy set in a fictional school, which was followed by a film adaptation in 2015. Whitehall has hosted several television programmes, including Backchat (2013-2015) alongside his father, and A League of Their Own from 2020. He presented the BRIT Awards multiple times between 2018 and 2021.

His film work includes The Bad Education Movie (2015), Mother's Day (2016), Disney's Jungle Cruise (2021), and Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021). He has also released several Netflix stand-up specials and travel documentaries.

In 2026 he starred in the Peackock comedy series The Burbs, a remake of the 1989 Tom Hanks film, three months after taking the lead on the Amazon Prime Video thriller Malice alongside David Duchovny.

Second series for Jack Whitehall's US comedy The 'Burbs

Comedy-thriller will be back on Sky

Jack Whitehall’s US comedy The ’Burbs has been renewed for a second season.

The series, inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks horror-comedy movie of the same name, debuted on Peacock in February and is shown on Sky in the UK.

Whitehall and Keke Palmer play a couple who move into a suburban neighbourhood harbouring darker secrets than it first appears.

‘We’re so thrilled that audiences loved season one of The ’Burbs and are going to get to spend more time in Hinkley Hills with Keke and the rest of this incredible cast,’ said Lisa Katz, president of scripted content for Peacock.

‘A huge congratulations to all of the writers, producers and crew who updated the beloved original film and made something funny, warm and highly contemporary.’

Sky has confirmed it will air series 2, too.

The series was created by Celeste Hughey, who also wrote and produced it alongside fellow writer and executive producer Rachel Shukert and director Nzingha Stewart. Other producers include Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane.

Critical opinion on the first season was broadly positive, if not without reservations. The Hollywood Reporter described it as a 'lumpy, though not unpleasant, mélange of uneven tones' that improved significantly around its fifth episode

The first series of The 'Burbs is available to watch on Sky and Now.