Kelly O'Sullivan

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Kelly O'Sullivan (* in Little Rock ) is an American theater and film actress .

Life

Kelly O'Sullivan was born in Little Rock , the capital of the US state Arkansas , where she lived until she was 18. As a family artist, her mother is an accountant while her father worked for a health insurance company, she began acting in Arkansas children's theater at the age of six.

Theater works

After leaving Arkansas and studying theater at Northwestern University , she worked at various theaters in Chicago, including the Steppenwolf Theater Company for True , The Crucible and 100 Saints You Should Know, and The Goodman for The Seagull . She has also received roles in The Humans , Columbinus , The Dark at the Top of the Stairs , This is Modern Art , The Internationalist , Honest , Good Boys , Hesperia , The Lieutenant of Inishmore , The Glory of Living and Mr. Marmalade .

Movie and TV

From 2014 O'Sullivan played in the television series Sirens recurring in a total of 22 episodes Valentina "Voodoo" Dunacci. She also got a bigger role in A Friend's Birthday of 2015.

Kelly O'Sullivan also wrote the script for the tragic comedy Saint Frances from her life partner Alex Thompson . She plays the leading role in the film, the young writer Bridget. O'Sullivan had met Thompson during a theater reading and by that time, he said, wrote the script for "a terrible web series".

Filmography (selection)

  • 2011: In Memoriam
  • 2012: Battleground (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 2014–2015: Sirens (TV series, 22 episodes)
  • 2015: A Friend 's Birthday (Henry Gamble's Birthday Party)
  • 2016: Jessica
  • 2018: Olympia
  • 2018: Not Welcome
  • 2019: Saint Frances (also screenplay)

Awards

Tallgrass International Film Festival

Traverse City Film Festival

  • 2019: Awarded the Nora Ephron Prize (Saint Frances)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Saint Frances. In: cinema.usc.edu. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ Rebecca Martin: Kelly O'Sullivan's debut script 'Saint Frances' brings an authentic look into womanhood. In: cinemafemme.com, January 7, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b James Mottram: Saint Frances star Kelly O'Sullivan: 'A female body is messy - but we've had to keep it invisible'. In: inews.co.uk, July 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c Nanny dearest: Kelly O'Sullivan on her prizewinning film Saint Frances. In: Financial Times, July 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ Kelly O'Sullivan. In: blackboxacting.com. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  6. ↑ Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan. In: filmmakermagazine.com. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  7. ↑ Richard Roeper: 'Saint Frances': A Chicago film star is born in locally made indie. In: chicago.suntimes.com, April 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME O'Sullivan, Kelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Rock , United States