Frances O'Connor

At 56 years old, Frances O'Connor has this physical status:

Frances Ann O'Connor (born 12 June 1967) is an English-Australian actress.

She is best known for her appearances in Mansfield Park (1999), Bedazzled (2000), A.I. She is best known for her appearances in the films Mansfield Park (1999).

Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Timeline (2003).

O'Connor has received the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Blessed (2009) and has been nominated for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her appearances in Madame Bovary (2000) and The Missing (2014).

Early life

O'Connor was born in Wantage, England, to a pianist mother and a nuclear physicist father; her family migrated to Perth, Australia, when she was two years old. She is the middle of five children, with one older brother, one older sister, and two younger siblings. O'Connor was born Roman Catholic and attended the Mercedes College in Perth. She went on to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from Curtin University in Western Australia.

Personal life

In May 2005, O'Connor and her long-term partner, Gerald Lepkowski, had Luka, a boy. The two families married in 2011 at O'Connor's mother's home in Australia.

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Career

O'Connor appeared in Emma-Kate Croghan's critically acclaimed independent romantic comedy Love and Other Catastrophes (1996). In a Leading Role nomination, she was nominated for her role in the film for her first AACTA Award for Best Actress. She was the leading actress in Kiss or Kill in 1997, and she appeared in Thank God He Met Lizzie opposite Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh. In 1999, O'Connor appeared as Fanny Price in the British romantic comedy-drama Mansfield Park. Critics also applauded the film. Emma Bovary in the film Madame Bovary earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination the following year.

O'Connor began her career in Hollywood in 2000 with a role in Bedazzled, a tribute to the 1967 film of the same name. Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley appeared in the film. She played a key role in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film A.I. the following year. Artificial Intelligence. For her role in the film, she was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress. In the romantic comedy-drama The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Oliver Parker and based on Oscar Wilde's classic play, she appeared alongside Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, and Judi Dench. In 2003, O'Connor appeared opposite Paul Walker in the science fiction film Timeline, which bombed at the box office.

In 2004, O'Connor returned to independent films and appeared in Iron Jawed Angels with Hilary Swank, Julia Ormond, and Anjelica Huston. For Three Dollars (2005) and The Hunter, she received two more AACTA Awards for Best Actress nominations. Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, and Bonnie Somerville appeared in the short-lived ABC comedy-drama series Cashmere Mafia in 2008. She was nominated for Best Actress in Blessed in 2009 by the AACTA for Best Actress. She appeared in Little Red Wagon's Car, and The Truth About Emanuel later in Jayne Mansfield's Life. In 2011, O'Connor appeared in Marc Cherry's ABC drama pilot Hallelujah, but the program was not picked up to serial. Rose Selfridge appeared in British period drama Mr Selfridge from 2013 to 2014.

In 2014, O'Connor was lead in the British drama The Missing. For her role in the film, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. In the fourth season of the American series Once Upon a Time, she appeared as Belle's mother Colette. O'Connor appeared in the horror film The Conjuring 2 with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in 2016 and in Cleverman, opposite Iain Glen.

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