Jack Ellis is an accomplished actor, educator, artist, speaker and advocate for positive masculinity. As Program Director of Goodfellas NSW and a senior presenter with Enlighten Education, Jack combines his background in teaching, performance and storytelling to create powerful conversations with young men about identity, respect, relationships and what it means to be a good man.
Born in Mount Gambier, South Australia, Jack embraced a wide range of interests throughout his school years, studying drama while also captaining his AFL football team and training in ballet. His passion for both creativity and education led him to become a qualified primary and high school teacher before pursuing further training at Australia’s prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Acting in 2014.
Jack has since built an impressive career across television, film and theatre. His screen credits include roles in Home and Away, A Place To Call Home, Netflix’s Sweet River, FX’s award-winning series Mr Inbetween and Stan’s Good Cop/Bad Cop. He has also performed Off-Broadway in New York and worked extensively as a performing arts educator, including tutoring actors at NIDA, Sydney Drama School, AFTRS, Sport for Jove Theatre Company and as acting coach for Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios.
While Jack is often cast as complex villains on screen, his real-life passion is helping young people challenge harmful stereotypes and rewrite the script on masculinity. Jack has worked with tens of thousands of young men, facilitating honest, shame-free conversations about respect, empathy, relationships, gender stereotypes and creating change.
