Conan Christopher O’Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on April 18, 1963. His father is a physician and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and his mother is a retired attorney and former partner at Boston firm Ropes & Gray. He has three brothers and two sisters. O’Brien attended Brookline High School, graduating in 1981 as valedictorian. He continued his education at Harvard University, where he studied History and Literature, graduating in 1985.
After graduating from Harvard, O’Brien moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the writing staff of HBO show “Not Necessarily the News.” In his own time, he also performed with improvisational groups like the Groundlings. He joined the “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) writing team in January 1988, and spent three years there.
He was subsequently offered a job writing for the animated sitcom “The Simpsons,” a highly-coveted rare opportunity. He worked as writer and producer for “The Simpsons” from 1991 to 1993, writing some of the most acclaimed episodes of the series, including “Marge vs. the Monorail” and “Homer Goes to College.”
Conan O’Brien hosted various incarnations of a late night comedy talk show for nearly three decades. He hosted a show at NBC from 1993 to 2010. He then hosted a show on TBS from 2010 to 2020. During his time at TBS Conan earned an annual salary of $12 million. In recent years Conan has found enormous success as a podcaster. In May 2022 Conan sold his podcasting network to SiriusXM for $150 million.
O’Brien met Elizabeth Ann “Liza” Powel in 2000. At the time, she worked as a senior copywriter at Foote, Cone & Belding. She appeared in a skit involving the firm on his show “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” They dated for almost eighteen months before tying the knot in Seattle in 2002. Together they have two children; daughter Neve (born 2003) and son Beckett (born 2005)
He is 6ft 3inches
