Kevin J. O'Connor Biography

Fast Facts

• His performance in the 2012 film "The Master" earned him a Chicago Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
• He trained for the stage at the DePaul/Goodman School of Drama in Chicago
• Quote: "(On working with Paul Thomas Anderson in "There Will Be Blood") "He's going to get it to the way it should be done and the way he wants it․ And I trust him completely․""
• Quote: "(On "Flight of the Living Dead," the horror film he was working on when he met Paul Thomas Anderson) "And he said, 'What are you working on right now?' and I said, 'A movie about zombies on a plane,' and he said, 'Yes!'""
• Quote: "(On being a character actor) "I get asked this so many times․ I truly wanted to be a character actor․ People ask me, 'When are you going to get the lead?' and I say, 'I don't want the lead․'""
• Quote: "(On how he chooses his roles) "If there's something I truly object to, unless I was starving or something, I don't usually do it․ But sometimes if I haven't worked in a while, I talk myself into doing something․""
• Directors he has worked with include Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson