Gavin O'Connor (director)
| Gavin O'Connor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 30, 1964 Long Island, New York |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 1992-present |
| Spouse(s) |
Angela Shelton (m. 1995-1996) Brooke Burns (m. 2013) |
Gavin O'Connor (born October 30, 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, playwright, and actor.
Gavin O'Connor was raised in Huntington, New York, on Long Island. He wrote and produced Ted Demme's directorial debut, the short film The Bet. Three years later, he made his own feature film co–writing and directing debut with Comfortably Numb, about the moral dilemmas facing a Connecticut preppie-turned-New York City prosecutor; the film was screened at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Boston Film Festival. O'Connor then turned to the stage, producing, writing, and starring in the Off-Broadway play Rumblings of a Romance Renaissance in 1997.
At the same time, O'Connor began work on a screenplay based on then-wife Angela Shelton's memories of her childhood spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother. Impressed by Tony Award-winning British actress Janet McTeer's appearance on Charlie Rose's talk show in 1997, he was determined to cast her in what had become Tumbleweeds (in which he co-starred); he was forced to finance the film himself when potential backers expressed their concern at McTeer's relative anonymity in the States. The movie won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival; McTeer's performance earned her a Golden Globe as Best Actress and Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the same category; and Kimberly J. Brown, cast as her pre-teen daughter, won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.
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