[1] Celeste O'Connor was born on December 2, 1998, in Nairobi, Kenya, to a White-American father and Kenyan mother.
As of April 2020[update], O'Connor was attending Johns Hopkins University majoring in public health and pre-medicine.
[3] O'Connor is interested in the social determinants of health including food security, housing insecurity, and education.
O'Connor played the younger version of Gugu Mbatha-Raw's character in the 2018 Netflix film, Irreplaceable You.
[4] Reporter Anagha Komaragiri of The Daily Californian praised O'Connor's "subtle" and "pensive presence" until the "tense finale".