Gavin O'Connor Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Gavin O'Connor (born 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, playwright and actor. Gavin O'Connor was born on Long Island, New York. After attending the University of Pennsylvania, he became interested in all aspects of film production, and in 1992, 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-NYC prosecutor; the film was screened at both the Cannes Film Festival and the... MORE

Gavin O'Connor (born 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, playwright and actor. Gavin O'Connor was born on Long Island, New York. After attending the University of Pennsylvania, he became interested in all aspects of film production, and in 1992, 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-NYC 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 LESS