Renee O`connor

Biography

Renee O'Connor was born in Houston, Texas, to Walter and Sandra O'Connor (now Wilson), and raised in Katy, a suburb. She attended "Taylor High School" (TX) and the "Houston High school of visual and performing arts", but ended up graduating from Taylor High school with her friends.

Renee then appeared in certain commericials (one of them for "McDonalds"), a feature film called "Night game", and some work for the Mickey mouse club in 1989.

From then on, she also appeared in several more movies (both feature and TV) and guest appearences on some TV shows such as NYPD Blue, before starring in a Hercules TV movie "Hercules and the lost Kingdom", as Deianeira, which caught the eyes of the exc. producers Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, who proceeded to cast Renee in the 1994 feature film, "Darkman 2: Return of Durant", as Laurie Brinkman. Shortly after this, Hercules' sister show, "Xena:Warrior Princess" was launched, and Renee had been cast in an important part, as Gabrielle, Xena's trusty sidekick.

Renee now resides in Auckland, New Zealand, where Xena is filmed. She was engaged to Steve Muir (a kiwi, or New Zealander) in Feburary, 2000, and uncomfirmed reports say they were married on 14th October, 2000, in Austin, Texas. Renee has one older brother, Chris, and her step father is Eddie Wilson.