Elinore O'Connell

Elinore O'Connell began a lifelong fascination with combining acting and singing while growing up in a musically-minded Irish Catholic family on the beaches of Santa Ana, California. The youngest of seven children raised by East Coast parents, Elinore fiddled away among her siblings at many a seaside campfire, framed by countless episodes of rigorous body surfing by day and long, inspirational walks by sunset. Her mother was a homemaker and writer, whose family for generations had been vaudevillians and singers; her father was a 30-year US Marine Sargent and Veteran of three wars. A steady, creative, inspired and tough product of the two, Elinore received great gifts that would well serve any actor and vocalist. As a child playing in the very bean field that later became The Orange County Center for the Performing Arts, her destiny has been no surprise. Elinore attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a Masters of Fine Arts. While a student, she won the Univer