Frances O'Connor

Frances O'Connor

1967-06-12 Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK 33 Credits

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...

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Ghosts

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

Emily

2022

Screenplay, Director

6.9
Writing Directing

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!

Go!

2020

as Christie Hooper

6.8
Acting

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

The Conjuring 2

2016

as Peggy Hodgson

7.3
Acting

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

Mercy

2014

as Rebecca

5.1
Acting

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

The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

2014

as Janice

5.9
Acting

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

Jayne Mansfield's Car

2013

as Camilla Bedford

5.8
Acting

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

Best Man Down

2012

as Jaime

6.7
Acting

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

Little Red Wagon

2012

as Margaret Craig

6.4
Acting

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

The Hunter

2011

as Lucy Armstrong

6.6
Acting

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

Ice

2011

as Sarah

5.6
Acting

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

Darwin's Darkest Hour

2009

as Emma Darwin

5.6
Acting

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

Blessed

2009

as Rhonda

6.5
Acting

Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.

Three Dollars

Three Dollars

2005

as Tanya Harnovey

6.9
Acting

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

Piccadilly Jim

2004

as Ann Chester

6.5
Acting

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

The Lazarus Child

2004

as Alison Heywood

5.5
Acting

A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.

Book of Love

Book of Love

2004

as Elaine Walker

4.7
Acting

Living among fusty academics, an unusual young man gets between a high school history teacher and his wife.

Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004

as Lucy Burns

6.9
Acting

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

Timeline

2003

as Kate Ericson

5.7
Acting

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

Windtalkers

2002

as Rita Swelton

6.3
Acting

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

The Importance of Being Earnest

2002

as Gwendolen Fairfax

6.9
Acting

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

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

as Monica Swinton

7.0
Acting

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

Bedazzled

2000

as Alison / Nicole

6.1
Acting

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

Madame Bovary

2000

as Emma Bovary

6.3
Acting

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

About Adam

2000

as Laura Owens

5.2
Acting

A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.

Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

1999

as Fanny Price

6.7
Acting

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

A Little Bit of Soul

1998

as Kate Haslett

5.4
Acting

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

Thank God He Met Lizzie

1997

as Jenny

4.8
Acting

The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.

Kiss or Kill

Kiss or Kill

1997

as Nikki Davies

4.0
Acting

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

Love and Other Catastrophes

1996

as Mia

5.4
Acting

A day in the life of two film school students trying to find love and another housemate.

Bathing Boxes

1995

as 2nd Woman

Acting

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

Acting

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

Poor Boy

N/A

Acting

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