Biography
Jess O'Kane is a British screenwriter and occasional director. She wrote the screenplay for the dark comedy thriller Bad Apples (2026), directed by Jonatan Etzler and starring Saoirse Ronan, which is adapted from the Swedish novel De Oönskade by Rasmus Lindgren. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025.
O'Kane studied screenwriting at the National Film and Television School. She wrote the short film The Devil's Harmony (2019), which won the Sundance Film Festival short film jury prize in 2020 and received a BIFA nomination. Her other credits include the short Faithful (2016) and an episode of the television series Casualty (2018). She has also directed the shorts Girl at Party (2022) and Hey Sexy (2026). She is based in Hastings on England's south coast.
