Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 30, 1951
Place of Birth:
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
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Deirdre O'Connell
Biography
Deirdre O'Connell is an American character actress who has worked extensively on stage, screen, and television. O'Connell began her career at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. She made herBroadway 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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Eddington | Dawn |
| 2022 | Ghostwritten | Mary Laury |
| 2022 | The Requin | Anne |
| 2019 | Diane | Donna |
| 2019 | I Am a Seagull | Didi / Arkadina |
| 2018 | The Boy Downstairs | Amy |
| 2018 | Lez Bomb | Rose Anderson |
| 2017 | The Holdouts | Annie |
| 2016 | In the Radiant City | |
| 2016 | Detours | Beth |
| 2014 | Gabriel | Meredith |
| 2014 | St. Vincent | Linda |
| 2014 | The Quitter | Kathleen Lembo |
| 2012 | Being Flynn | Frowzy Woman |
| 2010 | You Don't Know Jack | Linda |
| 2009 | The Greatest | Joyce |
| 2009 | A Dog Year | Donna Brady |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Ellen's Mother |
| 2008 | What Happens in Vegas | Mrs. Fuller |
| 2008 | Wendy and Lucy | Deb (voice) |
| 2007 | Stephanie Daley | Jane |
| 2007 | American Loser | Cynthia |
| 2006 | Winter Passing | Deirdre |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Hollis |
| 2004 | Imaginary Heroes | Marge Dwyer |
| 2003 | Secondhand Lions | Helen |
| 2002 | Dragonfly | Gwyn |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Mrs. Gerber |
| 2001 | Just Ask My Children | Landry |
| 2001 | Relative Evil | Phyllis |
| 1999 | Just Looking | Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher |
| 1999 | Murder in a Small Town | Kate Faxton |
| 1997 | Breast Men | Lacey |
| 1997 | A Deadly Vision | Marilyn Middleton |
| 1996 | Lifeform | Dr. Gracia Scott |
| 1996 | Our Son, the Matchmaker | Winona |
| 1996 | Chasing the Dragon | Doris |
| 1995 | Smoke | Sue the Waitress |
| 1995 | Trial by Fire | Roberta |
| 1995 | Kansas | Holly |
| 1995 | Fighting for My Daughter | Peggy |
| 1993 | Fearless | Nan Gordon |
| 1993 | Daybreak | Mom |
| 1992 | Falling from Grace | Sally Cutler |
| 1992 | Leaving Normal | Ellen |
| 1992 | Cool World | Isabelle Malley |
| 1992 | Straight Talk | Lily |
| 1992 | CrissCross | Shelly |
| 1990 | State of Grace | Irene |
| 1990 | Pastime | Inez Brice |
| 1990 | Brain Dead | Mrs. Halsey |
| 1989 | Misplaced | Ella |
| 1988 | Stars & Bars | Shanda Gage |
| 1987 | Anna | Assistant #2 |
| 1987 | Tin Men | Nellie |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Better Sister | |
| 2024 | The Penguin | Francis Cobb |
| 2023 | The Big Door Prize | Eloise Hubbard |
| 2022 | Outer Range | Patricia Tillerson |
| 2020 | Stars in the House | Self - Winner |
| 2015 | Marvel's Daredevil | Anna Nelson |
| 2014 | The Affair | Athena Bailey |
| 2014 | Madam Secretary | Audrey Stewart |
| 2011 | Person of Interest | Joan |
| 2009 | Nurse Jackie | Helen |
| 2005 | The Closer | Liz Provenza |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Nina Lipton |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Judge N. Owens |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | Barbara Young |
| 1998 | L.A. Doctors | Suzanne Blum |
| 1996 | Second Noah | Shirley Crockmeyer |
| 1994 | Chicago Hope | |
| 1993 | Sirens | Heidi Schiller |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Jane Schuman |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Valerie Knight |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Joanna Wilder |