Kevin J. O'Connor

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Kevin James O'Connor^[1] (born November 15, 1963) is an American actor.

He is known for playing character roles in major studio movies such as There Will Be Blood, The Mummy, Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions, F/X2 and as Igor in the 2004 movie Van Helsing. He is a favorite of writer/director Stephen Sommers, who usually casts him in his films.

Biography

Early life

O'Connor was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Patricia Connelly, a teacher, and James O'Connor, a police officer.^{[citation needed]} He has a brother, Christopher O'Connor, who teaches art and Latin at Ted Lenart Regional Gifted Center on Chicago's South Side.

Career

He trained as an actor at the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University. In Chicago, he appeared in the stage production El Salvador by Raphael Lima (1989) at the Steppenwolf Theatre. He made his New York Off Broadway debut in The Colorado Catechism by Vincent J. Cardinal (1990) at the Circle Repertory Company.

In 1980, Kevin O'Connor played Bogart in the TV movie Bogie that was directed by Vincent Sherman and was based on the novel by Joe Hymans.

O'Connor made his big-screen debut as the high school rebel, Michael Fitzsimmons, in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). His next major part was quizzical newspaper reporter Taggerty Hayes in the HBO miniseries Tanner '88. He portrayed a young Ernest Hemingway in the 1988 film The Moderns, had a small role in 1989's Steel Magnolias and a featured one in 1994's murder mystery Color of Night, which starred Bruce Willis.

O'Connor worked with writer/director Stephen Sommers on the 1998 science-fiction adventure Deep Rising. He often appears in Sommers' projects, including The Mummy, where he plays the betraying friend Beni and Van Helsing, in which he played Count Dracula's devious servant Igor.

He had a key supporting role in There Will Be Blood as Henry, the man who claims to be the brother of Daniel Day-Lewis's oil man, Daniel Plainview.

In 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, he plays Doctor Mindbender.

Filmography

References

External links

• Kevin J. O'Connor at the Internet Movie Database