Frances O'ConnorFilmography

Born:: June 12, 1967 in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: From bringing the characters of Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest), Jane Austen (Mansfield Park), and Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary) to life on the big screen to escaping into the outback with a wanted man (Kiss or Kill), nurturing an android (A.I.), and even inspiring a man to sell...Read More

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Blessed

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Deborra-Lee Furness, Victoria Haralabidou, Sophie Lowe

Synopsis: The actions of a handful of troubled young people are seen from two different perspectives in this drama from Australian filmmaker Ana Kokkinos. Daniel (Harrison Gilbertson) has a combative relationship with his parents and acts out by stealing; when challenged by his mother, he breaks into a Read More

2009
Darwin's Darkest Hour

Actors: Henry Ian Cusick, Frances O'Connor

Synopsis: Discover the human side of one of history's most controversial figures in this National Geographic Television production starring Henry Ian Cusick and Frances O'Connor. Set in the year preceding the publication of On the Origin of Species, the film opens to find British naturalist Alfred Wallace Read More

2009
Cashmere Mafia [TV Series]

Actors: Lucy Liu, Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Bonnie Somerville, Peter Hermann

Synopsis: Originally slated to premiere on November 27, 2007, then held back until December 4, the hour-long dramedy Cashmere Mafia finally made its ABC debut on January 6, 2008. The series focused on a quartet of highly successful female executives, friends since their days in business college, who Read More

2008
The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary Riordan

Synopsis: Two brothers are caught on differing sides of the battle for Irish freedom in this politically minded historical drama from veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach. It's 1920, and Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) has recently graduated from medical school. Damien plans to leave the small village in Read More

3/16/07
Piccadilly Jim

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Austin Pendleton, Tom Wilkinson, Allison Janney, Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is an American ne'er-do-well living in England with his tolerant father, Bingley (Tom Wilkinson), and his snooty, social-climbing stepmother, Eugenia (Allison Janney). As the film opens, Jim has been fouling up Eugenia's efforts to obtain a peerage with his Read More

2005
Three Dollars

Actors: David Wenham, Frances O'Connor, Sarah Wynter, Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik, Robert Menzies

2005
The Lazarus Child

Actors: Andy Garcia, Frances O'Connor

2004
Book of Love

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Simon Baker, Gregory Smith, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joanna Adler

Synopsis: Writer/director Alan Brown makes his feature-length debut with the comedy drama Book of Love, following his award-winning short film O Beautiful (released as part of Boys Life 4: Four Play). High school history teacher David (Simon Baker) is newly married to the lovely Elaine (Frances O'Connor). Read More

1/1/04
Iron Jawed Angels

Actors: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker

Synopsis: German filmmaker Katja von Garnier directs the HBO original movie Iron Jawed Angels, inspired by a pivotal chapter in American history. Hilary Swank plays Alice Paul, an American feminist who risked her life to fight for women's citizenship and the right to vote. She founded the separatist Read More

2004
Timeline

Actors: Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis

Synopsis: Directing his first film since 1998's Lethal Weapon 4, Richard Donner helmed this big-budget adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Featuring a script by first-time screenwriter George Nolfi, Timeline begins in France in the near future. A group of students from Yale are there Read More

11/26/03
Windtalkers

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Loosely based on a real-life operation during World War II, this action-adventure from director John Woo stars Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders, a Marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the Solomon Islands during an ambush he believes was deadlier than necessary due to his indecision. Read More

6/14/02
The Importance of Being Earnest

Actors: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench

Synopsis: A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady, but charming gentlemen from a wealthy family who Read More

5/17/02
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death. Haley Joel Osment Read More

6/29/01
About Adam

Actors: Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Frances O'Connor, Charlotte Bradley, Rosaleen Linehan

Synopsis: Gerard Stembridge directs this charming comedy about a handsome stranger who wreaks havoc on an entire family. Pub torch singer Lucy Owen (Kate Hudson) falls for Adam (Stuart Townsend) as soon as she lays eyes on him. Tired of a string of failed short-termed relationships, she succumbs to Adam's Read More

5/9/01
Bedazzled

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones

Synopsis: How far will a man go to win the woman he loves? That's the devilish question behind this satirical romantic comedy. Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser), a low-level white-collar worker, has fallen in love with his co-worker Allison (Frances O'Connor), who barely knows he exists. Desperate to win her Read More

10/20/00
Madame Bovary

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Greg Wise, Hugh Dancy, Keith Barron

Synopsis: Previously filmed by such cinematic geniuses as Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli, Gustave Flaubert's once-scandalous 1857 novel Madame Bovary was transformed into a two-part British miniseries in 2000. Set in the rural Normandy of the 1830s and 1840s, this is the story of Emma Rouault (Frances O'Connor Read More

2000
Mansfield Park

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, Harold Pinter

Synopsis: Freely adapted from a novel by Jane Austen, this period drama is set in the early 1800s, as a girl named Fanny (Hannah Taylor Gordon) is being raised by loving but desperately poor parents. Wanting a better life for Fanny, they send her away to live with her aunts, high-minded Mrs. Norris (Sheila Gish Read More

11/18/99
A Little Bit of Soul

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, David Wenham, Frances O'Connor, Heather Mitchell, John Gaden

Synopsis: After his Oscar-winning performance in Shine, Geoffrey Rush returned to the screen in this Australian comedy as a power-crazed politician, federal treasurer Godfrey Usher. Scientist Richard Shorkinghorn (David Wenham) needs cash to continue his research into age reversal. Applying for a grant Read More

2/12/99
The Wedding Party

Actors: Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor, Linden Wilkinson, John Gaden

Synopsis: Guy (Richard Roxburgh), a lonely bachelor, meets the woman of his dreams in Lizzie (Cate Blanchett), an impossibly beautiful doctor with elegance, style, and sophistication. Their six-week courtship leads to marriage, and the wedding is a big one, with 100 guests and a posh reception that never Read More

1997
Kiss or Kill

Actors: Frances O'Connor, Matt Day, Chris Haywood, Barry Otto, Max Cullen

Synopsis: Set amidst the eerie desolation of the Australian outback, Kiss or Kill is a superior reworking of vintage film noir materials from the veteran director Bill Bennett. Its lovers-on-the-run story focuses on Nicole (Frances O'Connor) and Al (Matt Day), a pair of petty thieves running a scam Read More

1997
Love and Other Catastrophes

Actors: Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski, Alice Garner, Frances O'Connor, Radha Mitchell

Synopsis: Australian college students struggle to deal with school, romance, and life in general in first-time director Emma-Kate Croghan's comedy. The film's focus falls on cinema studies major Mia (France O'Connor) and her roommate Alice (Alice Garner), both of whom find themselves in romantic flux. Alice Read More

1996