Frances O'Connor was born in Oxfordshire, England to a nuclear physicist father and a pianist mother. Her family moved to Perth, Australia when she…more
Frances was nominated for an AFI Film Award for her role in Artificial Intelligence: AI. The category was AFI Featured Actor of the Year - Female - Movies.
Frances: There's still so many double standards in the workplace for men and women like equal pay that are being skated over. [Today's] women are so busy getting on with things that they don't actually take the time to think, This is what we need to do.
Frances: I do much prefer being an actor rather than going through the whole celebrity thing. I think going that way can take the focus off your acting which I think that can be a bit dangerous.
(When asked what types of roles she liked to play)Frances: The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.