Bridget O'Connor was an award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her play The Flags and her adaptation, with husband Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England.Peter Straughan was the writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays Bones and Noir...

, of the book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a 1974 British spy novel by John le Carré, featuring George Smiley. Smiley is a middle-aged, taciturn, perspicacious intelligence expert in forced retirement. He is recalled to hunt down a Soviet mole in the "Circus", the highest echelon of the Secret Intelligence...

 for the film of the same name. She died aged 49 from cancer.

Early Life

O'Connor was born to Irish

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 parents in Harrow

Harrow

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, north-west London

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, to parents Bridie and Jim O'Connor and was the second of five children. She eventually attended Lancaster University

Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a leading research-intensive British university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964 and initially based in St Leonard's Gate until moving to a purpose-built 300 acre campus at...

 where she read English

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.

Personal Life

O'Connor was married to the writer Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England.Peter Straughan was the writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays Bones and Noir...

 with whom she had one daughter Connie.

Filmography

Feature films
Year	Film	Other notes
2006	Sixty Six Sixty Six (film) Sixty Six is a 2006 British biographical-comedy-drama film about a bar mitzvah which takes place in London on the day of the 1966 world cup final based on the true life bar mitzvah of director Paul Weiland.- Plot :...	(Screenplay) co-written with Peter Straughan Peter Straughan Peter Straughan is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England.Peter Straughan was the writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays Bones and Noir...
2007	Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution	co-written with Peter Straughan
2011	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	(Screenplay) Released posthumously, co-written with Peter Straughan. A dedication to Briget is made in the final credits of the film.