Helen O'Connor

Bio

A graduate from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Helen has worked extensively in Australian film, TV and theatre. Theatre credits include most recently Stephen Sewell’s darkly comedic one woman show Partying with Manson for the 2026 Adelaide Fringe Festival.The show received high praise for O’Connor’s performance including “★★★★★ Glam Adelaide: “A masterpiece, meticulously crafted…O’Connor delivers a virtuoso performance!” and “★★★★★ Fifty+SA:

O’Connor weaponises Susan Atkins with a chilling, personal edge, making every whispered confession feel intimate and compelling” (Adelaide Fringe).   Other theatre performances include: The Lives of Eve, Antigone, Great Expectations, On The Wallaby, No Worries, On Top of the World, Europe, I Hate Hamlet, Quartermaine’s Terms, Straight and Narrow, Milo, Women of Troy and Lipstick Dreams (which she co-wrote with Simon Hopkinson), Miss Reardon Drinks a Little & Catholic School Girls, Wild Thing.  Screen credits include feature films Wreck of the Stinson and Babe, Boys In the Island, Till There Was You, Out of the Body, The Beast, Frauds, Spider and Rose, Natalie Wood: Lost Child, Gingers, and the award-winning docudrama Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler.

For TV she has appeared in many Aussie series, including Flying Drs, A Country Practice, GP, Medivac, Police Rescue, Grim Pickings, Relative Merits, Loveless, The Girl From Tomorrow, Tomorrow’s End, Headstart, White Collar Blue, Outriders, Don’t Blame Me, Snobs, All Saints, Home and Away, Breakers, Crownies and Rake. Helen also formed the all-girl comedy web series Chan & Dee’s Drink Tank, which she co-wrote with Claire Haywood.