Frances O'Connor Biography
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Frances O'Connor
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| Frances O'Connor | |
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| Born | 12 June 1967 Wantage, Oxfordshire, England |
| Domestic partner(s) | Gerald Lepkowski |
Frances O'Connor (born 12 June 1967) is a British-born Australian actress.
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Background
O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father.1 When O'Connor was two, her family moved back to Perth, Western Australia.2 O'Connor was raised a Roman Catholic34 and attended the Mercedes College in Perth. O'Connor attended the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts as and earned a BA in literature from the Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia.
O'Connor and her long-term partner, Gerald Lepkowski, gave birth to their first child, Luka, in April 2005. Best known for portraying Monica Swinton In the film A.I.
Filmography
- Law of the Land (1993, TV Series)
- Halifax f.p "The Feeding" (1995, TV film)
- Bathing Boxes (1995)
- Shark Bay (1996)
- Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
- Kiss or Kill (1997)
- Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997) (aka The Wedding Party)
- A Little Bit of Soul (1998)
- Mansfield Park (1999)
- Madame Bovary (2000) (TV)
- About Adam (2000)
- Bedazzled (2000)
- Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
- Windtalkers (2002)
- Timeline (2003)
- Piccadilly Jim (2004)
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004, TV)
- Book of Love (2004)
- The Lazarus Child (2004)
- Three Dollars (2005)
- Cashmere Mafia (2008, TV series)
- Blessed (2009)
- Darwin's Darkest Hour (2009, PBS)
TV guest appearances
- The Panel (episode 3.7, 19 April 2000)
- Frontline (episode 3.8, 14 April 1997)
- Blue Heelers (episode 3.10, 2 April 1996)
- Blue Heelers (episode 3.9, 26 March 1996)
- Blue Heelers (episode 3.8, 19 March 1996)
- Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River (Snowy River: The McGregor Saga) (episode 3.20, 1995)
- Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River (Snowy River: The McGregor Saga) (episode 3.19, 1995)
- The Damnation of Harvey McHugh (episode 1.8, 1994)