Biography
Hugh O'Conor is an Irish actor, writer and director. Born on 19 April 1975 in Dublin, he began acting as a child and made his film debut in Lamb (1985) opposite Liam Neeson.
He is known for his role as Young Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), for which he won a Young Artist Award, as King Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers (1993), and as Father Henri in Chocolat (2000). The latter earned the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
O'Conor has also appeared in Pilgrimage (2017) and Handsome Devil (2017), and was listed at number 49 on The Irish Times' 2020 ranking of Ireland's greatest film actors. He studied at the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin.
