Gavin O'Connor is an Irish actor who has had roles in TV series such as "The Hunt For Raoul Moat", "Vikings: Valhalla, "The Alienist", "Taken Down",Charlie, "North Sea Connection", The Tudors, Single Handed and films including Dorothy Mills (2008), The Front Line (2006), Headrush (2003) and This Is My Father (1998), This Must Be The Place (2011) and Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008).

[1] Born in Cork, O'Connor trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin.

O'Connor made his professional acting debut in Pat McCabe's Loco County Lonesome at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in September 1994.

O'Connor plays a younger version of the Earl of Shrewsbury[3][4] in the third series of Michael Hirst's hit television series The Tudors, first aired on 5 April 2009 in the United States on Showtime, and August 2009 in the United Kingdom on BBC2.

[citation needed] In 2015, he played the former Minister for Justice Seán Doherty in RTÉ's Charlie (TV series).