Frances O'Connor

Born: June 12th 1969
Where: Oxford, UK

British born but Aussie raised, Frances joined the Melbourne Theatre Company and, 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 feature debut was in 1996 in Love and Other Catastrophes, in which she played a lesbian university student as part of an ensemble that also included Matt Day.

She starred opposite Day again in Kiss or Kill, a thriller in which two lovers cause havoc in the middle of nowhere.

This role really brought her to the attention of the critics and Frances was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award as Best Actress.

Frances really felt her career take off when she was cast as the object of Brendan Fraser's affection in the remake of Bedazzled.

In 2001 Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick's breathtaking A.I Artificial Intelligence brought Hollywood to a standstill. Frances was cast as Monica, the adoptive mother of a robotic child, and can be assured that her career will never look back!

She has now reteamed with Fraser on the London stage in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.