Erin Connor

Born and bred near Byron Bay in Australia, Erin grew up on a tropical fruit farm with a menagerie of animals to look after. With a rural upbringing, Erin learnt early on the lessons earned by hard work and community. Erin enjoys a versatile reputation, and has portrayed a myriad of characters from high class QCs to former drug addicts and enjoys stepping into the lives of the characters she play through both diligent research and a passion for getting into the heads of the storytellers with whom she works. Erin has received praise for her lead roles in Dru Brown's cult film The Suicide Theory (2014), as Julie Nile in RISE (2014), where she starred opposite Australian icon Martin Sacks and was released on Australian screens in 2015 and across the US and Canada via Netflix; Her performance as Jenny Bartlett opposite Temuera Morrison (Once Were Warriors) and Ken Jong (The Hangover) in Occupation (2018) and Occupation: Rainfall (2020), and in Beast No More (2019) where her portrayal of the antagonist Blanch has helped enforce the movement of stronger females holding their ground on screens.