Brookline – parents of comedian and longtime late-night TV host Conan O'Brien Died within a few days of each other.
Dr. Thomas O'Brien died on Monday at the age of 95, and his wife, Ruth Reardon O'Brien, died on Thursday at the age of 92. their ObituariesThey were married for 66 years and raised six children. Both were said to have “passed away peacefully.”
Conan O'Brien's parents lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he was born and raised. The 61-year-old is ready to host the 2025 academy awards in March.
Dr. Thomas O'Brien
Dr. Thomas O'Brien was now director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. A Boston Globe obituary Says he “warned” about its dangers decades ago. drug resistant Bacteria and viruses.
“He was one of the first people to draw attention to the risks of the development of antimicrobial resistance,” Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, head of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's, told the newspaper.
In an interview with The Globe, Conan O'Brien said that his father “was interested in everything – absolutely everything.”
O'Brien said, “But he was often the funniest guy in the room. And when he laughed, his whole body would convulse and he would almost hug himself.”
Ruth Reardon O'Brien
Ruth Reardon O'Brien, a native of Worcester, was one of just four women in her Yale Law School class, according to her obituary. She clerked for the former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, became a real estate attorney, and was the second woman to become a partner in the famous Ropes & Gray law firm in Boston.
Last year, Conan O'Brien talked on the podcast about growing up in a large, Irish Catholic family your mother's kitchen And said that he has been trying to make his parents laugh since childhood.
O'Brien recalled, “My mother was a very 'straight man', you know, she was a very straight man, 'Hey don't say that, sit straight, now why would you say that.' “And what happens is that it made me want to be really funny.”