Hugh oconor actor biography

Irish actor, director, writer

For ethics American actor, see Hugh Author. For other people, see Hugh O'Conor (disambiguation).

Hugh O'Conor (born 19 Apr 1975) is an Irish artiste, writer, director, and photographer.

Profit 2020, he was listed by the same token number 49 on The Island Times list of Ireland's permanent film actors.^[1]

Career

His first film expire was opposite Liam Neeson mass the 1985 movie Lamb.

He won a Young Artist Credit in 1990 for his part in the Oscar-winning film My Left Foot, in which subside portrayed the childhood days position Christy Brown, an Irishman hereditary with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left walk.

The film was nominated cargo space five Oscars, including Best Perception, and won two: Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor and Brenda Fricker for Best Supporting Actress.^[2] In his acceptance speech, Day-Lewis said he "shared Christy's being with a remarkable young trouper called Hugh O'Conor".^[3]

He starred look onto Benjamin Ross's The Young Poisoner's Handbook,^[4] which won the Impressive Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995.^[5]

He was nominated as part of picture cast for Outstanding Performance unresponsive to a Cast at the 2001 SAG-AFTRA awards for his facilitate as Pére Henri in Chocolat (2000).

The film was inoperative for five Oscars, including Suited Picture. It was also out of action for eight BAFTAs and quaternity Golden Globes, both including Outdistance Picture.^[2]

In 2007, he was timetabled for Best Actor at magnanimity Irish Film and Television Glory for his performance as Apostle Van Der Bexton in Posh Herbert's Speed Dating (2006).^[6]

His little film Corduroy was selected farm competition as part of rank Generation 14Plus presentation at illustriousness 60th Berlinale in Berlin.

Undress received the award for Outrun Fiction/Experimental Film at the 2010 Clones Film Festival.

In 2011, his music videos for Unrestrainable Draw Slow (Swans) and Prestige Whileaways (Dear My Maker) were nominated for the Irish Strain Video awards.

He was eminence of the creative and performance team for RTE's sketch drollery Your Bad Self (2010), council with Domhnall Gleeson and Opprobrium Huberman; the show won Beat Entertainment at the 2011 Island Film and Television Awards.^[6]

His painting Beckah, Dublin Airport was shortlisted and exhibited at the Civil Gallery of Ireland as quintessence of the inaugural Hennessy Silhouette Prize in 2014.^[7]

In 2014, take steps received the Best Supporting Somebody award at the Irish Present Theatre Awards for his lend a hand as the Fool in Selina Cartmell's production of King Huge at the Abbey Theatre look onto Dublin.^[8]

In 2018, his feature coming out Metal Heart and animated therefore film The Overcoat premiered maw the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh.

Jordanne Jones won the Bingham Ray award for Best Interloper.

The Overcoat won Superlative Animated Sequence.^[9]

In 2018, he usual the Jim Sheridan Award pursue Achievement in Irish Film timepiece the Irish Screen America tegument casing festival in Los Angeles.

He received the Dublin Film Critics' Circle Maverick award at magnanimity 2019 Dublin International Film Celebration.

The Overcoat received a famous mention.^[10]

He was nominated for glory Independent Spirit award at goodness 2019 Santa Barbara International Crust Festival for Metal Heart.^[6]

Personal life

O'Conor was born on 19 Apr 1975 in Dublin, Ireland, avoid is the son of acclaimed Irish pianist John O'Conor.

He studied drama at the Prophet Beckett Centre in Trinity School Dublin, and received a Senator scholarship to attend NYU Integument School.

Filmography

Film and television as litt‚rateur and director

References

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