Career
O'Connor's first professional role was when Al Franken hired him for a low-budget feature film One More Saturday Night . [3] However, O'Connor's big break was at practically the beginning of his career [3] as high school rebel and beatnik poet Michael Fitzsimmons in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). [5] His next major part was quizzical newspaper reporter Taggerty Hayes in the HBO miniseries Tanner '88 (1988). [5] He portrayed a young Ernest Hemingway in the film The Moderns (1988), [5] [8] had a role as a bartender turned groom in Steel Magnolias (1989), [2] and a featured role in the erotic thriller Color of Night (1994) which starred Bruce Willis and Jane March. O'Connor starred in John Candy's last film, Canadian Bacon (1995), directed by Michael Moore; [3] he portrayed Roy Boy, a suicidal, eccentric American intent on sabotaging Canada.
O'Connor worked with writer/director Stephen Sommers on the science-fiction adventure Deep Rising (1998). He subsequently appeared in Sommers' projects The Mummy (1999), in which he played the devious, materialistic Beni [4] and was hired without an audition. [3] Later Sommers' projects followed for him: Van Helsing (2004), [2] in which he played Count Dracula's devious servant (and Dr. Frankenstein's former assistant) Igor; and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), in which he portrayed Doctor Mindbender.
O'Connor had a key supporting role in There Will Be Blood (2007) as Henry, the "brother" of Daniel Day-Lewis's oil man, Daniel Plainview. He reunited with There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson for a small role in The Master (2012).
Although he has performed mostly on the big screen, he has acted in TV series such as Birdland (1994), The Others (2000), [4] and Gideon's Crossing (2000–01), [5] and later in The Beast (2009), [4] The Mob Doctor (2012–2013), Chicago P.D. (2014–2015), [4] [2] and the streaming mini-series 11.22.63 (2016) and Catch-22 . He has performed on stage at the Steppenwolf [5] and off-Broadway. [3]
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