Celeste O'Connor

Celeste O'Connor was born on December 2, 1998, in Nairobi, Kenya, to a White American father and Kenyan mother.^[2] O'Connor and their younger brother were raised in Baltimore, Maryland by their parents.^[3] They attended Notre Dame Preparatory School and studied the violin and singing at Peabody Preparatory. As of April 2020^[update], O'Connor was attending Johns Hopkins University, majoring in public health and pre-medicine.^[4] They also took courses in Islamic studies.^[3] O'Connor is interested in the social determinants of health including food security, housing insecurity, and education.^{[citation needed]}

O'Connor played the younger version of Gugu Mbatha-Raw's character in the 2018 Netflix film Irreplaceable You.^[5] They appeared in the 2019 film Wetlands.^[4] In 2019, O'Connor played Paloma Davis in the film Selah and the Spades.^[4] Reporter Anagha Komaragiri of The Daily Californian praised O'Connor's "subtle" and "pensive presence" until the "tense finale".^[6]

O'Connor was cast in July 2019 for the film Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and reprised their role in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).^[5] In May 2022, they were cast as one of the co-leads in the superhero film Madame Web (2024).^[7] In December 2024, it was announced that they would appear in Scream 7.^[8]

O'Connor is an advocate for improving diversity and representation in the entertainment industry.^[4][9] O'Connor is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.^[10]