Aaron O'Connell

Aaron O'Connell is the kind of dependable supporting hand Hallmark keeps in the rotation rather than building a poster around. Across six films since 2015 he has never been the top name, which suits the work he does: filling out the cast around the leads, usually in a Big City rather than the snowy small towns the network loves. Christmas shows up in half of those titles, three of the six, often paired with the network's winter slot. His best-reviewed outing is With Love, Christmas from 2017, sitting at 6.7, a touch above his 6.3 average and the high point of a steady record. He has no regular partner here, no familiar duo to anchor him, so he turns up in different ensembles each time. If you watch enough holiday Hallmark, you have seen him without quite clocking the name, and that is its own kind of useful.