Celeste O’Connor
Birthdate: Dec 2, 1998
Birthplace: Nairobi, Kenya
Celeste O’Connor is a Black actor who has shifted largely from American indie movies to big-budget studio productions, starting in 2017 with a supporting role in director/writer/producer Emanuele Della Valle’s crime movie, Wetlands, starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Heather Graham, Christopher McDonald, and Jennifer Ehle, and released by Abramorama.
O’Connor landed her first co-starring role in the acclaimed Sundance-premiering indie from director/writer/producer Tayarisha Poe, Selah and the Spades (2019), co-starring Lovie Simone, Jharrel Jerome, Gina Torres, and Jesse Williams. O’Connor earned a major supporting role in the Blumhouse-backed slasher comedy, Freaky (2020), co-written and directed by Christopher Landon, starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton, and grossing a tripling of $6 million costs for Universal Pictures.
Celeste O’Connor was cast as Lucky Domingo in her first big-budget blockbuster hit, Sony/Columbia’s sequel, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), co-written and directed by Jason Reitman, and starring Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and Paul Rudd, with a global gross of $204.4 million. O’Connor joined Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman in director/writer/producer Zach Braff’s drama, A Good Person (2023), garnering indifferent reviews and a modest $3 million worldwide box office.
O’Connor landed her biggest role to date opposite star Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, and Tahar Rahim in the Marvel Cinematic Universe/Columbia Pictures entry, Madame Web (2024), directed by S.J. Clarkson and released by Sony Pictures Releasing. O’Connor returned to her Lucky Domingo persona in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), co-written and directed by Gil Kenan, and featuring Rudd, Coon, Wolfhard, Grace, with new cast members including Kumail Nanjiani, and Patton Oswalt and marking the return of original Ghostbusters Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson.
Personal Details
Celeste O’Connor was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, by their American-born father and Kenyan-born mother. O’Connor has one younger brother. O’Connor studied at Notre Dame Preparatory School and then studied voice and violin at Peabody Preparatory at John Hopkins Peabody Institute. O’Connor majored in public health and pre-medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
Filmography
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- 2024 | Ghostbusters: Frozen EmpireasLucky
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
- 2024 | Madame WebasMattie Franklin
Madame Web
Forced to confront her past, Cassandra Webb, a Manhattan paramedic that may have clairvoyant abilities, forms a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures, if they can survive their threatening present.
- 2023 |
- 2022 | The In Between
- 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
- 2020 |
- 2019 | Selah and the Spades
- 2017 | Wetlands
Some Facts About Celeste O’Connor
Pronouns: Celeste O’Connor is identified by plural pronouns.
