Kelly O'Sullivan

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Place of Birth Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Kelly O'Sullivan

Biography

Kelly O'Sullivan (born 1983/1984) is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. She wrote and starred in Saint Frances (2019), which won the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. O'Sullivan was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, to an accountant mother and a father who worked in health insurance. She was raised Irish Catholic and attended Immaculate Conception School until eighth grade. O'Sullivan always wanted to be an actor and supported by her cinephile parents, she performed in local children's theatre plays from age five. She studied theatre at Northwestern University and is also an alumna of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's School at Steppenwolf in Chicago. Inspired by Greta Gerwig, who directed Lady Bird, O'Sullivan wrote Saint Frances based on the experiences she had while working as a nanny to support her struggling acting career in her 20s and an abortion she had in her early thirties. She started work on the script in January 2018, already intending the film to be directed by partner Alex Thompson. She wrote the parts for the lesbian parents in the film for actors Lily Mojekwu and Charin Alvarez.

Known For

Director

Mouse

as Director

2024
Ghostlight

as Director

2022
My Summer Vacation

as Director

Actor

2024
The Graduates

as Vicki

2023
Hangdog

as Wendy

2022
2022
Rounding

as Dr. Kayla Matthews

2020
Saint Frances

as Bridget

2018
Not Welcome

as Penelope

2016
Jessica

as Pam

2015
2014
Sirens

as Valentina 'Voodoo' Dunacci

2012
The Mob Doctor

as Annabelle Hanson

2012
Battleground

as Sarah

2011
In Memoriam

as Kelly

Writer

The Steel Harp

as Writer

Mouse

as Writer

2024
Ghostlight

as Writer

2022
My Summer Vacation

as Screenplay

2020
Saint Frances

as Writer

Producer

2020
Saint Frances

as Executive Producer