(L-R) Billie Eilish’s mom Maggie Baird, Billie Eilish, and her father Patrick O’Connell attend Billboard Girls In Music 2019 (Getty)
Billie Eilish celebrated Father’s Day by posting a candy photograph of her and her dad when she was youthful.
Within the story, Eilish tagged her dad’s Instagram account, @krondeutch, and wrote: “Dad day, love you dad.”
The photograph exhibits a really younger Eilish mendacity on her dad’s chest as they each stare on the digital camera.
Eilish not too long ago grew to become the third and youngest artist to achieve 100 million month-to-month Spotify listeners, with solely The Weeknd and Taylor Swift surpassing the milestone up to now. Contemplating her first album was recorded in her guardian’s house in Highland Park, Los Angeles, it’s a powerful feat.
In truth, it has lengthy been reported that Eilish’s largest supporters are her mother and father, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, who helped Eilish along with her music ambitions from a younger age. Let’s be taught extra about them.
Who’s Billie Eilish’s dad Patrick O’Connell?
O’Connell is an actor who has appeared in various well-known exhibits and flicks.
Followers may need recognised O’Connell for his visitor appearances in Basic Hospital, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, With out A Hint, Numb3rs, Days of Our Lives, Supergirl, and Iron Man.
O’Connell additionally spent a while on Broadway, however didn’t expertise huge success as a theatre actor.
Eilish beforehand instructed Rolling Stone: “My dad is the very best actor I’ve ever seen.”
How did Billie Eilish’s mother and father meet?
Maggie Baird can also be an actor, like O’Connell. They met in 1984 after they had been each forged in a play in Alaska and had been collectively for 11 years earlier than getting married.
Eilish’s brother Finneas O’Connell was born in 1997, with Eilish following in 2001.
Baird and O’Connell’s performing careers took a success after they grew to become mother and father, and Eilish has spoken in regards to the unfairness they’ve confronted within the business.
“Performing is tremendous bizarre. You possibly can work for years and years and be the very best on the planet and by no means get a task, and you’ll be mediocre, do one audition, and turn into an enormous star. For years, I noticed my mother and father beat up over the truth that they didn’t have it higher,” Eilish instructed Rolling Stone in 2019.
“And that drove me insane – as a result of they had been actually good! My dad is the very best actor I’ve ever seen. And my mother can do all these voices and characters – she’s unbelievable. So I want they’d had extra recognition.”
What do Patrick O’Connell and Maggie Baird do now?
Since Eilish’s music profession took off, her mother and father have been by her facet each step of the best way.
The entire household tour with Eilish collectively. Baird helps her daughter along with her schedule and O’Connell brings his carpentry and tech expertise to the exhibits to ensure the whole lot goes in line with plan.
O’Connell and Eilish additionally host a podcast collectively referred to as me & dad radio.
In 2020, Eilish and her mum additionally began a non-profit geared toward “creating an equitable, plant-based meals system and combating meals insecurity and the local weather disaster”.