Caitlin O'Connor

Caitlin O'Connor Purdy (born August 3, 1989) is an American actress, television host, model, and film producer. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

Career O'Connor guest starred on the series finale of Two and a Half Men on CBS. She has also guest starred on Winning Time as Dyan Cannon, and on Comedy Central's Tosh.0 as well as Key & Peele. As a commercial actress, O'Connor starred in a national commercial for Dave & Busters and PepsiNext. Her print campaign credits include Target, Macy's, Xbox, and Pert Plus. As a host, Caitlin O'Connor has regular assignments at E! News, Maxim, Arsenic, The Chive, and AfterBuzz TV. In 2025, it was announced O'Connor will be hosting a syndicated daytime conflict resolution talk show, The Caitlin O'Connor Show, taping at NBC Chicago and which will test pilot on NBC O&O stations and WPXI in Pittsburgh in the spring 2026 for a 2026 potential fall launch.

Personal life O'Connor was born in Los Angeles, and raised in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where she graduated high school. She moved back to Los Angeles at age 17 to attend UCLA as an English major. She was UCLA's BruinBearWear catalog model and worked her first job at Disneyland as a Disney princess/character actress. She is of Irish, English, and Hungarian descent. O'Connor loves combat sports and has worked as a ring girl or correspondent for Top Rank Boxing, UFC Fight Pass, GoldenBoy Boxing, BKB Boxing, and was the ring girl in the 2015 feature film Southpaw.

Since September 2023, she has been in a relationship with Joe Manganiello. In October 2025, Manganiello announced that he and O'Connor are engaged. In December 2025, the couple moved from Los Angeles, California to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where they both grew up.

Filmography, television roles, and appearances