Acting
O'Connor has appeared in the mobile soap opera, Random Place where he played the character of Bo Edwards. The series was viewed via mobile phones and provided a fly-on-the-wall view of the lives of five twenty-somethings sharing a house near Bondi Beach. This was Australia's first mobile soap opera, a format which originated in the Netherlands.
O'Connor then took on a regular role as Ned Parker in the soap opera Neighbours. In his three years in the show, his character had several relationships, was mistakenly believed to be homosexual, discovered he had a son, and survived a fire. In one particular scene, he was pictured half-naked with a towel around his waist. "I actually thought I had to be completely naked," he explained when he was told he had to drop the towel. "Ever since that scene, I've had a lot of people who want me to take my shirt off!"'.
He did a cameo in Ricki-Lee Coulter's Can't Touch It music video in 2007, as a bartender and her love interest. He has also appeared on Ready Steady Cook, Thank God You're Here and Australia's Brainiest quiz show among other things. Having left Neighbours, he appeared in CelebAir, but was evicted in the 7th week. In Autumn 2011 he appeared in BBC One's Death in Paradise Episode 2
In December 2011 it was announced that O'Connor had joined the cast of British soap opera Hollyoaks.
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