Frances O'Connor - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

First impressing an international audience with her award-winning portrayal of Nikki, a con artist with a tumultuous past in Kiss or Kill (1997), Frances O'Connor has emerged as one of Australia's most talked-about young performers. The daughter of a nuclear physicist father and pianist mother, O'Connor trained at the West Australia Academy for the Performing Arts. Like so many other Australian actors, she got her start on television, earning an Australian Film Institute award nomination for her role in an episode of the forensic pathology drama Halifax f.p.. Her nomination led to her being cast in the successful romantic comedy Love and Other Catastrophes (1996); her portrayal of a university student undergoing a messy break-up with her girlfriend (Radha Mitchell) was responsible for her second AFI nomination. The acclaim surrounding O'Connor's work opened a number of doors for her, one of which led to Kiss or Kill, a romantic thriller that met with critical success both in Australia and overseas. The actress' giddy, haunting performance in the film earned her both her third AFI nomination (she earned her fourth that same year for her work in Thank God He Met Lizzie, a romantic comedy starring Cate Blanchett, and a Best Actress award at the Montreal Film Festival. 

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