43 Facts About Brian O'Conner

Brian O'Conner is portrayed by Paul Walker and first appeared on film with fellow protagonist Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious.

Brian O'Conner is a keen driver, and challenges Dominic, the implied strongest racer in the group, to races throughout the series.

Brian O'Conner won the 2002 and 2014 MTV Movie Awards for Best On-Screen Team with Vin Diesel for his performances, and Walker became strongly identified with the character, with Brian being widely considered among the primary reasons of the longevity of the series.

Brian O'Conner was born on July 14,1978, and raised by his mother in Barstow, California.

Brian O'Conner remembers little of his father and is close childhood friends with Roman Pearce; attending the same high school, the pair dated the same women.

Once Brian O'Conner earned his drivers permit, he was involved in a five-car pile-up on Interstate 40 driving with his mother.

Brian O'Conner joined the Los Angeles Police Department, and two months into his tenure on the force, Roman was arrested for housing stolen cars in a garage.

Brian O'Conner is given a very short amount of time to find the people responsible before the truckers start arming themselves with shotguns and taking matters into their own hands.

When investigating the street race scene, Brian O'Conner then meets Dominic Toretto whose crew he later infiltrates, first as a rival racer, in a race which he loses, then as a member after helping Dom escape the police.

Brian O'Conner even goes as far as to organize and lead a large SWAT team into Johnny Tran's house after finding large amounts of merchandise, the kind from the highway robberies, while infiltrating his garage.

Brian O'Conner soon finds out Toretto is responsible after watching him suddenly leave in the middle of a party at Race Wars and seeing Mia weeping to herself.

Brian O'Conner then reveals himself to Mia as a police officer and convinces her that if he does not get to her brother and his crew fast, they could get seriously injured or killed by the truckers who have begun to carry firearms.

Brian O'Conner saves Vincent, only to reveal to Dom that he is a cop.

Brian O'Conner later finds Dominic at his house attempting to look for Jesse when Tran and his accomplice roll up on their motorbikes pulling a drive-by shooting on the Toretto house, narrowly missing everyone there except for Jesse who is killed in the process.

Brian O'Conner drops him at a used car lot, with him realizing she knows that he is a wanted man.

Brian O'Conner, now living in Miami, Florida competes part time as a street racer for his friend Tej Parker.

Brian O'Conner is given a partner named Dunn, who he quizzes regarding his knowledge of cars, and Dunn fails.

Brian O'Conner then proceeded to request his own driver, saying if he doesn't get the driver he wants, he won't participate in the operation and take his chances in Chino.

When Markham agrees to Brian O'Conner's terms, Brian O'Conner and his old FBI boss, Agent Bilkins seek out his childhood friend Roman Pearce who is a Demolition Derby driver.

Brian O'Conner is able to convince Pearce to accept the deal.

Monica, who has fallen in love with Brian O'Conner, warns him that Verone intends to kill them at the end of their mission.

Pearce reconciles with Brian O'Conner, accepting that his arrest was not his fault.

Brian O'Conner is forced to meet up with Verone, but after beating up Carter's henchman he proceeds to do a classic car jump onto Verone's boat.

Brian O'Conner is not surprised to see Dominic Toretto doing a Suge Knight style balcony interrogation of possible lead David Park.

Brian O'Conner knows that it is because of Letty's recent murder that Dominic has returned to get answers.

Also, it was Brian O'Conner who was contacted by Letty with her proposal to infiltrate Braga's organization in exchange for Dom's safe return to Los Angeles.

Similar to the first film, Brian O'Conner is under pressure by his superiors to bring in Dom, who is still a fugitive in the film.

Brian O'Conner is often worried that he will behave in the manner that his father did, but Toretto reassured him that he won't because he will keep an eye on him if he does.

Brian O'Conner had been in juvenile detention with Roman before he became a cop.

Brian O'Conner has rekindled his relationship with Mia, and she becomes pregnant with his child.

Brian O'Conner joins Toretto's team in complying with the request of Agent Hobbs to take down rival gang leader Owen Shaw.

Brian O'Conner apologizes to Letty, who says that she might not remember him, but if she did work for him, she would have done of her own free will.

Hobbs then grants the group's amnesty, and the entire crew move back to America, where Mia, Toretto and Brian O'Conner have decided to reside in the old Toretto home.

Brian O'Conner begins to accustom himself to life as a father but misses the old life he once enjoyed.

Brian O'Conner turns off the main road, and Dom continues on ahead.

Brian O'Conner is mentioned by Roman and Letty as when Dom betrays the team, Roman suggests that Brian would know why Dom betrayed them, but Letty reminded him that they all agreed to keep Brian and Mia retired from the team due to them wanting a normal life and for the safety of their children.

However, Mia returns to the team when she learns that their current target is Jakob, the third Toretto sibling, who was separated from the family years ago, and informs Dom that Brian O'Conner is looking after the children.

The film concludes with Brian O'Conner arriving at Dom's house in his blue Nissan Skyline to join the rest of the team in a post-mission barbecue, although he is not featured directly.

Brian O'Conner is shown to be brave, particularly when protecting friends or loved ones by making seemingly lethal, impulsive or courageous decisions.

Brian O'Conner was first unknown with the car tuning community, but after with meeting Toretto, he became more positive, active in the racing scene, becoming a skilled mechanic.

Brian O'Conner is very interested in tuners, especially Nissan Skyline models.

Brian O'Conner owned two Nissan Skyline GT-R R34's, Nissan C10 Skyline and finally a Nissan GT-R.

Apart from Skylines, Brian O'Conner has owned: a tuned Mitsubishi Eclipse in the first film, a Lancer Evo, a Subaru and a Supra.