Who is 2025 Oscars host Conan O’Brien’s wife, Liza Powel? The playwright met the comedian in 1999 and supported him when he lost his Tonight Show gig – they share 2 kids, Neve and Beckett
Liza Powel O’Brien and Conan O’Brien’s meet cute was captured on camera after he showed up at her advertising agency when she was a copywriter; they married in 2002, and Conan’s ex Lisa Kudrow attended
Talk show host Conan O’Brien is grieving the loss of his beloved parents Dr Thomas O’Brien and Ruth Reardon O’Brien, who both passed away last week.
The Boston Globe reported that Thomas, a medical visionary and associate professor at Harvard Medical School until his retirement at the age of 90, and his wife Ruth, a Yale Law School graduate and only the second woman partner at her former law firm, passed away within days of each other.
In a touching tribute to his late father in the same publication, Conan called him “the funniest guy in the room”, adding, “When he would laugh, his whole body would convulse and he would almost hug himself.”
So what else do we know about Liza Powel O’Brien?
How did Conan O’Brien meet his wife, Liza Powel?
In 1999, O’Brien had a show called Late Night with Conan O’Brien and visited the offices of the advertising agency where Powel worked as a copywriter to film a comedy segment. “You can see me fall in love with her on camera,” O’Brien later said on one of his shows. “The best decision I’ve ever made in my life, including Late Night.”
Powel remembers that O’Brien became interested in her while filming the segment and asked lots of questions. “We were having this full on first date conversation out of nowhere and literally every other person was looking at each other like, should we go?” she told Mike Sweeney on the Inside Conan podcast.