Early start was half the work for grown-up star Hugh O’Conor

We first saw Hugh O’Conor a child in Lamb, and he’s gone on to become an accomplished photographer and actor, writes Alan O’Riordan.

MEETING Hugh O’Conor is a good way to chase away those January blues. The actor, who is now, shockingly, in his 40s, radiates enthusiasm, inquisitiveness and boyish charm.

As well as acting, O’Conor is also an accomplished photographer. You can see his work in the National Gallery, or in the first edition of literary journal Winter Pages, where O’Conor contributed a photo essay of intimate shots of his fellow thespians in those liminal moments after the curtain comes down.