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Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
24 December
Location
New York, United States
Edit pageGavin O Connor
Biography
Gavin O'Connor (born December 24, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, playwright, and actor. He is best known for directing the films Miracle, Warrior, The Accountant, and The Way Back.
Gavin O'Connor was raised in Huntington, New York, on Long Island. He wrote and produced Ted Demme's directorial debut, the short film The Bet.
Three years later, he made his feature film co-writing and directing debut with Comfortably Numb, about the moral dilemmas facing a Connecticut preppie-turned-New York City prosecutor; the film was screened at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Boston Film Festival. O'Connor then turned to the stage, producing, writing, and starring in the Off-Broadway play Rumblings of a Romance Renaissance in 1997.
In 2004, after serving as executive producer of several smaller, independent projects, O'Connor directed the film Miracle, based on the true story of the American ice hockey team's victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics. He also produced the Mark Kerr HBO documentary film, The Smashing Machine.
In 2013, O'Connor was working on adapting the novel The Hustler into a stage play. In April 2013, he signed on to direct Jane Got a Gun.
On September 6, 2017, O'Connor landed the roles of director and writer of The Suicide Squad. By October, O'Connor had exited the project due to his story treatment reportedly being identical to Birds of Prey, as well as his commitments to The Way Back.
