- His film short screenplay "Kill Gaddafi's Whores!" achieved quarter-finalist status in 2012 at both the Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition in Hollywood, CA, and the International Breakout Screenplay Contest sponsored by Reel Authors.
- He is the eldest brother of filmmaker Jim Connell.
- His parents are Rita Connell and William Connell.
- He was born in the Pawtucketville neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts.
- He was born on the same day as Tony Bennett, Tom Brady, John Landis, Evangeline Lilly, Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, and Isaiah Washington.
- He is of French Canadian and Irish descent.
- He is the eldest of ten children; his siblings are Camille, Francis, Lise, Richard, Denise, Diane, Christine, Paul, and Jim Connell.
- He had known "How I Met Your Mother" TV series actor Ron Nicolosi ever since they were young actors working in a variety of shows at the now-defunct Giordano Starlight Dinner Theatre in Georgetown, Massachusetts.
- He graduated from Merrimack College with a BA in English (with a minor in Religious Studies) and from Emerson College with a masters in Mass Communications.
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