Name
Deirdre O'Connell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1951-12-30 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Deirdre O'Connell (born December 30, 1951) is an American character actress. She began her career at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. She made her Broadway debut in the 1986 revival of The Front Page, and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in the off-Broadway production Love and Anger. She is the recipient of two Drama-Logue Awards and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage work in Los Angeles. O'Connell made her screen debut in Tin Men. Additional film credits include State of Grace, Straight Talk, Leaving Normal, Fearless, City of Angels, Hearts in Atlantis, Imaginary Heroes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wendy and Lucy, What Happens in Vegas, Secondhand Lions, and Synecdoche, New York. O'Connell's first television credit was Fernwood 2 Night in 1977. She was a regular on L.A. Doctors and has made numerous guest appearances on series such as Kate & Allie, Chicago Hope, Law & Order, The Practice, Six Feet Under, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Nurse Jackie. (Wikipedia)
Known For
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Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her m...
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When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becom...
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A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanth...
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During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come...
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A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives....
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The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, ...
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A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to c...
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While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, ...
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- 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Hollis
- 1990 State of Grace as Irene
- 1988 Stars & Bars as Shanda Gage
- 1987 Anna as Assistant #2
- 1989 Misplaced as Ella
- 1990 Pastime as Inez Brice
- 1992 Falling from Grace as Sally Cutler
- 1992 Leaving Normal as Ellen
- 1995 Smoke as Sue the Waitress
- 1993 Fearless as Nan Gordon
- 2007 Stephanie Daley as Jane
- 2004 Imaginary Heroes as Marge Dwyer
- 2009 The Greatest as Joyce
- 1992 Cool World as Isabelle Malley
- 1992 Straight Talk as Lily
- 1997 Breast Men as Lacey (voice)
- 1996 Lifeform as Dr. Gracia Scott
- 2007 American Loser as Cynthia
- 1996 Our Son, the Matchmaker as Winona
- 2015 Gabriel as Meredith
- 2016 In the Radiant City
- 1999 Just Looking as Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
- 1993 Daybreak as Mom
- 2022 Ghostwritten as Mary Laury
- 2025 Eddington as Dawn Bodkin
- 2017 The Holdouts as Annie
- 2008 Synecdoche, New York as Ellen's Mother
- 2001 Hearts in Atlantis as Mrs. Gerber
- 2016 Detours as Beth
- 1995 Trial by Fire as Roberta
- 2010 You Don't Know Jack as Linda
- 2002 Dragonfly as Gwyn
- 2006 Winter Passing as Deirdre
- 2014 St. Vincent as Linda
- 2001 Just Ask My Children as Landry
- 1999 Murder in a Small Town as Kate Faxton
- 2018 The Boy Downstairs as Amy
- 1995 Kansas as Holly
- 2003 Secondhand Lions as Helen
- 2019 Diane as Donna
- 2014 The Quitter as Kathleen Lembo
- 1997 A Deadly Vision as Marilyn Middleton
- 2018 Lez Bomb as Rose Anderson
- 2001 Relative Evil as Phyllis
- 2008 What Happens in Vegas as Mrs. Fuller
- 1992 CrissCross as Shelly
- 2012 Being Flynn as Frowzy Woman
- 1996 Chasing the Dragon as Doris
- 1987 Tin Men as Nellie
- 1990 Brain Dead as Mrs. Halsey
- 2019 I Am a Seagull as Didi / Arkadina
- 2009 A Dog Year as Donna Brady
- 2008 Wendy and Lucy as Deb (voice)
- 2022 The Requin as Anne
- 1995 Fighting for My Daughter as Peggy
- 2025 Made in Eddington as Self
- 2014 Apartment Troubles as Ina the Tarot Reader
- 1998 City of Angels as Mrs. Balford
- 2007 Socket as Hospital Staff
- 1994 Chicago Hope ( 2 episodes ) as Ellen Wheeler
- 1993 Sirens ( 13 episodes ) as Heidi Schiller
- 1996 Second Noah ( 21 episodes ) as Shirley Crockmeyer
- 2023 The Big Door Prize ( 1 episode ) as Eloise Hubbard
- 1998 From the Earth to the Moon ( 1 episode ) as Barbara Young
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Jane Schuman
- 1990 Law & Order ( 4 episodes ) as Valerie Knight
- 2009 Nurse Jackie ( 3 episodes ) as Helen
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Judge N. Owens
- 2014 The Affair ( 7 episodes ) as Athena Bailey
- 2022 Outer Range ( 5 episodes ) as Patricia Tillerson
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Joanna Wilder
- 2020 Stars in the House ( 1 episode ) as Self - Winner
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Nina Lipton
- 2011 Person of Interest ( 1 episode ) as Joan
- 2024 The Penguin ( 8 episodes ) as Francis Cobb
- 2015 Marvel's Daredevil ( 3 episodes ) as Anna Nelson
- 2005 The Closer ( 1 episode ) as Liz Provenza
- 1998 L.A. Doctors ( 19 episodes ) as Suzanne Blum
- 2025 The Better Sister ( 2 episodes ) as Debbie Macintosh
- 2014 Madam Secretary ( 1 episode ) as Audrey Stewart
- 1997 The Practice ( 2 episodes ) as Jenny Baldwin
- 2011 Unforgettable ( 1 episode ) as Sue Kelly
- 2025 The Beast in Me ( 4 episodes ) as Carol McGiddish
- 2022 The Bear ( 1 episode ) as Mary 'Crazy Mary' Heyman
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Kitty MacKay
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Ella
