Frances O'Connor

This article is about British-Australian actress Frances O'Connor. For the American actress, see Frances Belle O'Connor .

Frances O'Connor (born June 12, 1967 in Wantage , Oxfordshire ) is a British - Australian actress .

life and career

At the age of two, Frances O'Connor moved to Perth , Australia with her parents, a nuclear physicist and a pianist . At the Curtin University graduate them with the Bachelor of Arts in Literature Science.

O'Connor graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), a faculty at Edith Cowan University , in 1992 . A year later she made her debut in the television series Law of the Land . In the comedy All About Adam (2000) she played the role of Laura Owens , the sister of Lucy Owens , played by Kate Hudson . She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as Emma Bovary in the television drama Madame Bovary (2000) .

O'Connor now lives in Melbourne . With her long-time partner, the Scottish fellow actor Gerald Lepkowski , she has a son.

Filmography (selection)

• 1996: love and other disasters
• 1997: Kiss or Kill
• 1998: To hell with the soul (A Little Bit of Soul)
• 1999: Mansfield Park
• 2000: Madame Bovary
• 2000: All About Adam (About Adam)
• 2000: Devilish (Bedazzled)
• 2001: AI - Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• 2002: Being Earnest (The Importance of Being Earnest)
• 2002: Windtalkers
• 2003: timeline
• 2004: Alice Paul - The Path into Light (Iron Jawed Angels)
• 2004: Book of Love
• 2004: The Lazarus Child
• 2005: Three Dollars
• 2009: Blessed
• 2009: Ice - The day the world freezes to death (Ice)
• 2011: The Hunter
• 2012: Jayne Mansfield's Car
• 2013: Linda's Child - Never Underestimate What a Mother Can Do (The Truth About Emanuel)
• 2013-2014: Mr Selfridge (TV series, 20 episodes)
• 2014: Once Upon a Time (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2014: Mercy - The Devil Knows No Mercy
• 2014: The Missing (TV series, 8 episodes)
• 2016: Conjuring 2 (The Conjuring 2)
• 2018: Troy - Fall of a City ( Troy: Fall of a City , TV series, 8 episodes)

Awards and nominations

• 1997 Montréal World Film Festival : Best Actress ( Kiss or Kill )
• 1998 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards : Best Actress ( Kiss or Kill )
• 2000 Golden Globe : Nomination for Best Actress - Mini-Series / TV Movie ( Madame Bovary ) (2000)
• four-time nominations - AFI Awards

Web links

• Frances O'Connor in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nominations of the year 2000 ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  
2. ↑ World Film Festival - Prizes 1997 (English)
3. ↑ IMDb entry on FCCAA award winners 1998 (English)