Frances O'Connor
Highest Rated: 88% Emily (2022)
Lowest Rated: 13% Timeline (2003)
Birthday: Jun 12, 1967
Birthplace: Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK
After graduating from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in Perth and appearing extensively on Australian TV in series including "Halifax f.p.," dark-haired, porcelain-skinned actress Frances O'Connor made her film debut in Emma-Kate Croghan's surprise hit "Love and Other Catastrophes" in 1996. She played Mia, a self-assured film student facing difficulties with school administration and romantic problems with her girlfriend Danni (Radha Mitchell). The actress' impressive turn as the staunch and spunky young woman in this Australian independent garnered notice and acclaim. Hot on the heels of the 1996 Cannes screening of "Love and Other Catastrophes," O'Connor began lensing "Thank God He Met Lizzie" (1997) a romantic comedy starring Cate Blanchett as the titular significant other of a man (Richard Roxburgh) plagued by thoughts of his previous girlfriend Jenny (O'Connor). As Jenny, O'Connor gave an exuberant performance, easily evincing the high-spirited vitality and charm crucial to her role as the idealized early girlfriend who lives primarily in flashback. Although the film attracted only a small audience, critics pointed to O'Connor's performance as a stand-out feature of the otherwise unremarkable offering.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | 84% | Emily |
Director, Screenwriter |
$1.1M | 2022 |
| 80% | 61% | Go! | Christie Hooper (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 80% | 81% | The Conjuring 2 | Peggy Hodgson (Character) | $102.5M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Mercy | Mother (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 37% | 35% | The Truth About Emanuel | Janice (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 31% | 44% | Best Man Down | Jaime (Character) | $1.8K | 2012 |
| 35% | 40% | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Camilla Bedford (Character) | $14.4K | 2012 |
| 45% | 61% | Little Red Wagon | Margaret Craig (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 72% | 62% | The Hunter | Lucy Armstrong (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ice | Sarah (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 85% | 69% | Blessed | Rhonda (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Piccadilly Jim | Ann Chester (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Three Dollars | Tanya (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Poetic Unreason | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 56% | 89% | Iron Jawed Angels | Lucy Burns (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Book of Love | Elaine Walker (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | The Lazarus Child | Alison Heywood (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 13% | 45% | Timeline | Kate Ericson (Character) | $19.5M | 2003 |
| 33% | 50% | Windtalkers | Rita (Character) | $40.9M | 2002 |
| 57% | 72% | The Importance of Being Earnest | Gwendolen (Character) | $8.4M | 2002 |
| 75% | 64% | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | Monica Swinton (Character) | $78.6M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 69% | 47% | About Adam | Laura (Character) | $142.7K | 2000 |
| 50% | 43% | Bedazzled |
Alison/ |
$37.9M | 2000 |
| 77% | 77% | Mansfield Park | Fanny Price (Character) | $4.8M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | A Little Bit of Soul | Kate Haslett (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 83% | 76% | Kiss or Kill | Nikki Davies (Character) | $790.9K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Thank God He Met Lizzie | Jenny (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 50% | 71% | Love and Other Catastrophes | Mia (Character) | $238.1K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Halifax: The Feeding | Frances (Character) | - | 1994 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76% | 82% | The End | Dr Kate Brennan (Character) | 2020 |
| 71% | 22% | Troy: Fall of a City | Hecuba (Character) | 2018 |
| 86% | 85% | Cleverman | Charlotte Cleary (Character) | 2016-2017 |
| 93% | 90% | The Missing |
Emily Hughes (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2014 |
| 78% | 78% | Once Upon a Time | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 69% | 80% | Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece | Rose Selfridge (Character) | 2013-2014 |
| 67% | 69% | Vegas | Barbara Kent (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | NOVA | Unknown (Character) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Cashmere Mafia | Zoe Burden (Character) | 2008 |