FILMOGRAPHY

2005] Poetic Unreason
2004] Three Dollars
2004] Piccadilly Jim
2004] The Lazarus Child
2004] Book of Love
2004] Iron Jawed Angels (TV)
2003] Timeline
2002] Windtalkers
2002] The Importance of Being Earnest
2001] Artificial Intelligence: AI
2000] Madame Bovary (TV)
2000] Bedazzled
2000] About Adam
1999] Mansfield Park
1998] A Little Bit of Soul
1997] Thank God He Met Lizzie
1997] Kiss or Kill
1996] "Shark Bay"
1996] Love and Other Catastrophes
1995] Bathing Boxes
1994] Halifax f.p: The Feeding (TV)
1993] "Law of the Land"

LINKS

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Frances O'Connor Web Pages
Photos of Frances O'Connor

Born 12 June 1967 Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Frances's father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a pianist. Frances's family moved to Australia when she was 2 years old.

Raised in Perth she earnt a BA in literature from Curtin University in Western Australia.

Frances is based in London with her Scottish partner Gerald Lepowski. She gave birth to their first child in April 2005.

3 times AFI nominee with Love and Other Catastrophes, Thank God He Met Lizzie & Kiss or Kill for best actress and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for: Madame Bovary (2000).

Frances on Australia:
"That's where I grew up. I do have two passports, which means I can work internationally, as well," O'Connor says by telephone from London. With film, you can base yourself anywhere, but we end up spending a lot of time in Australia, anyway."

Frances on Mansfield Park:
"I read it when I was like 18, and I hated it," she confessed. "I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen Re-reading...the text, I think I missed a lot. The irony, the wit and just the intelligence. They're such smart novels and they're so carefully observed about human nature."

Frances on reading the novel Three Dollars:
"It helped a lot. In the novel Tanya was a very real person. I know those Melbourne girls who are opinionated and fiery. And I know so many people who went to university, got a degree and are now finding it hard to make ends meet. It's different from the Australia a lot of us grew up in."

Frances on first getting involved with Three Dollars:
"David's a mate of mine, who I've known since we did A Little Bit of Soul together, and we always wanted to do something together again, and I'd met director Bob Connolly a few times. They came to see me in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the West End. At that point, Bob had the rights to the book and was working on the screenplay, and it evolved from there. They were quite early drafts, so I got to have some input into the character."

Frances on Three Dollars:
"I felt a great affinity with the book. I loved its 'Melbourneness'. And it's nice to do a film that reflected something that's going on right now in Australia, rather than a quirky comedy. It's good to see films that are urban that do reflect a more middle-class sensibility, because I think that's the population of Australia. You don't often see stories that are centred around that theme. It's a true reflection of Australian society. Three Dollars is a story that we need to tell more."

Frances on wanting to continue making Australian films:
"It's important for me as an actor, because it's a part of my culture, and it's where I come from, and it's important to be a part of that storytelling. And it's nice to go home, too."