---
name: "Simon O'Connor"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-oconnor"
fi1m_id: "simon-oconnor"
imdb_id: "nm0640519"
tmdb_id: 15093
wikidata_id: "Q98396924"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:58:35.250610+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Simon O'Connor

## Identity

Simon O'Connor

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simon-oconnor
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simon-oconnor
- **IMDb ID:** nm0640519
- **TMDB ID:** 15093
- **Wikidata ID:** Q98396924
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_O%27Connor_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98396924, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640519/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15093

Actor. Born 1 January 1949 in Wellington.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1949, Wellington
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_O%27Connor_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98396924, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640519/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15093

## Biography

Simon O'Connor is a New Zealand actor and playwright, born in 1949 in Wellington. He began his stage career in the late 1960s after moving to Dunedin, where he studied theatre for three years. His first short play, *Lift*, was produced in 1974.

O'Connor has worked extensively in theatre, radio and television. He is known for playing Herbert Rieper in Peter Jackson's *Heavenly Creatures* (1994), for which he received a nomination for Best Male Performance in a Supporting Role at the 1995 New Zealand Film and Television Awards. Other television credits include roles in *Shark in the Park*, *Close to Home* and *Country GP*, on which he also worked as a writer, and the lead role in the 2015 black comedy *How to Murder Your Wife*.

In 1992 he became a teaching fellow at the University of Otago's Theatre Studies Department, specialising in playwriting. He was a co-founder of Dunedin's Talking House community arts trust and won the 1984 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nzonscreen.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heavenly Creatures* (1994), Fi1m 84, as Herbert Rieper — [page](https://film.one/film/heavenly-creatures.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Heavenly Creatures* (1994), as Herbert Rieper — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/heavenly-creatures.md)
- *Should I Be Good?* (1985), as Michael Elworthy
- *The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts* (1978), as Farmer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Bruce Mason Playwriting Award 1984: Bruce Mason Playwriting Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/simon-oconnor