During his Australian Idol journey, O'Connor showed an ability to work the crowd and to dress for the occasion.
O'Connor has appeared in the mobile soap opera, Random Place where he played the character of Bo Edwards.
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.
He did a cameo in Ricki-Lee Coulter's Can't Touch It music video in 2007, as a bartender and her love interest.
In December 2011 it was announced that O'Connor had joined the cast of British soap opera Hollyoaks as Ally Gorman.
[4] O'Connor went on to star in Mr & Mrs Murder as Brody Bennett in 2013 followed by Winners & Losers in the same year in the role of Nate Simpson.