Celeste O’Connor

Celeste O’Connor is a Black actor who has shifted largely from American indie movies to big-budget studio productions, starting in 2017 with a supporting role in director/writer/producer Emanuele Della Valle’s crime movie, Wetlands, starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Heather Graham, Christopher McDonald, and Jennifer Ehle, and released by Abramorama.

O’Connor landed her first co-starring role in the acclaimed Sundance-premiering indie from director/writer/producer Tayarisha Poe, Selah and the Spades (2019), co-starring Lovie Simone, Jharrel Jerome, Gina Torres, and Jesse Williams. O’Connor earned a major supporting role in the Blumhouse-backed slasher comedy, Freaky (2020), co-written and directed by Christopher Landon, starring Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton, and grossing a tripling of $6 million costs for Universal Pictures.

Celeste O’Connor was cast as Lucky Domingo in her first big-budget blockbuster hit, Sony/Columbia’s sequel, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), co-written and directed by Jason Reitman, and starring Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and Paul Rudd, with a global gross of $204.4 million. O’Connor joined Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman in director/writer/producer Zach Braff’s drama, A Good Person (2023), garnering indifferent reviews and a modest $3 million worldwide box office.

O’Connor landed her biggest role to date opposite star Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, and Tahar Rahim in the Marvel Cinematic Universe/Columbia Pictures entry, Madame Web (2024), directed by S.J. Clarkson and released by Sony Pictures Releasing. O’Connor returned to her Lucky Domingo persona in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), co-written and directed by Gil Kenan, and featuring Rudd, Coon, Wolfhard, Grace, with new cast members including Kumail Nanjiani, and Patton Oswalt and marking the return of original Ghostbusters Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson.