Biography
Frances Ann O'Connor (born 12 June 1967) is a British-Australian actress and director. She is known for her roles in the films Mansfield Park (1999), Bedazzled (2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), and Timeline (2003). O'Connor has won an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Blessed (2009), and earned Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film nominations for her performances in Madame Bovary...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ghosts
2023
Set Designer
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a mem...

Emily
2022
Director, Screenplay
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. E...

Go!
2020
as Christie Hooper
Jack is a charismatic larrikin who has just discovered the one thing he's really good at — go-kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an...

The Conjuring 2
2016
as Peggy Hodgson
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

Mercy
2014
as Rebecca
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.

The Truth About Emanuel
2014
as Janice
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
as Camilla Bedford
Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. The scars of the past hide differences tha...

Best Man Down
2012
as Jaime
A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly ...

Little Red Wagon
2012
as Margaret Craig
With nothing more than a blazing spirit of philanthropy and his beat-up red wagon, Zach sets out to help homeless children in America. In the process,...

The Hunter
2011
as Lucy Armstrong
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.

Ice
2011
as Sarah
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacie...

Darwin's Darkest Hour
2009
as Emma Darwin
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront fami...

Blessed
2009
as Rhonda
Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.

Three Dollars
2005
as Tanya Harnovey
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when ...

Piccadilly Jim
2004
as Ann Chester
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his d...

The Lazarus Child
2004
as Alison Heywood
A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.

Book of Love
2004
as Elaine Walker
Living among fusty academics, an unusual young man gets between a high school history teacher and his wife.

Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as Lucy Burns
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Timeline
2003
as Kate Ericson
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...

Windtalkers
2002
as Rita Swelton
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II ...

The Importance of Being Earnest
2002
as Gwendolen Fairfax
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using ...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Monica Swinton
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually b...

Bedazzled
2000
as Alison / Nicole
Elliot Richards, a socially awkward IT worker, is given seven wishes to get the girl of his dreams when he meets a very seductive Satan. The catch: hi...

Madame Bovary
2000
as Emma Bovary
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on...

About Adam
2000
as Laura Owens
A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.

Mansfield Park
1999
as Fanny Price
Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a...

A Little Bit of Soul
1998
as Kate Haslett
Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both apply for funding from the Michael ...

Thank God He Met Lizzie
1997
as Jenny
The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.

Kiss or Kill
1997
as Nikki Davies
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After ac...

Love and Other Catastrophes
1996
as Mia
A day in the life of two film school students trying to find love and another housemate.
Bathing Boxes
1995
as 2nd Woman
The ebb and flow of erotic desire makes for a summertime splash in this vibrant realisation by Ann Turner. Inspired by a Jeffrey Smart painting, Turne...
Mystery Ride
N/A
as Kate Summers
A woman unravels a small town conspiracy of silence surrounding the murder of a hitchhiker and falls in love with a handsome, brooding Maori guy, she ...

Poor Boy
N/A
A little boy announces on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny, a grown man who died seven years earlier.