High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jack Anthony Holden is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away, played by Paul O`Brien. He made his first on-screen appearance on 5 August 2005. Jack was a police officer. The Holden family — Jack, his father Tony and his brother Lucas arrived in Summer Bay in 2005. In December 2008, the season finale, Jack was accidentally shot in the chest at a construction site by fellow copper, Angelo Rosetta. In the first episode of the 2009 season, it was revealed that Jack had died after paramedics failed to revive him at the scene.