Deirdre O'Connell
Actor
Born December 30, 1951 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
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)
Filmography
The Beast in Me
Carol McGiddish
Made in Eddington
Self
Eddington
Dawn Bodkin
The Better Sister
Debbie Macintosh
The Penguin
Francis Cobb
The Big Door Prize
Eloise Hubbard
The Bear
Mary 'Crazy Mary' Heyman
Ghostwritten
Mary Laury
Outer Range
Patricia Tillerson
The Requin
Anne
Stars in the House
Self - Winner
I Am a Seagull
Didi / Arkadina
Diane
Donna
Lez Bomb
Rose Anderson
The Boy Downstairs
Amy
The Holdouts
Annie
In the Radiant City
Detours
Beth
Gabriel
Meredith
Marvel's Daredevil
Anna Nelson
The Affair
Athena Bailey
St. Vincent
Linda
Madam Secretary
Audrey Stewart
The Quitter
Kathleen Lembo
Apartment Troubles
Ina the Tarot Reader
Being Flynn
Frowzy Woman
Person of Interest
Joan
Unforgettable
Sue Kelly
You Don't Know Jack
Linda
A Dog Year
Donna Brady
Nurse Jackie
Helen
The Greatest
Joyce
Wendy and Lucy
Deb (voice)
Synecdoche, New York
Ellen's Mother
What Happens in Vegas
Mrs. Fuller
Socket
Hospital Staff
American Loser
Cynthia
Stephanie Daley
Jane
Winter Passing
Deirdre
The Closer
Liz Provenza
Imaginary Heroes
Marge Dwyer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hollis
Secondhand Lions
Helen
Dragonfly
Gwyn
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Nina Lipton
Hearts in Atlantis
Mrs. Gerber
Just Ask My Children
Landry
Relative Evil
Phyllis
Just Looking
Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Judge N. Owens
Murder in a Small Town
Kate Faxton
L.A. Doctors
Suzanne Blum
City of Angels
Mrs. Balford
From the Earth to the Moon
Barbara Young
Breast Men
Lacey
A Deadly Vision
Marilyn Middleton
The Practice
Jenny Baldwin
Lifeform
Dr. Gracia Scott
Chasing the Dragon
Doris
Our Son, the Matchmaker
Winona
Second Noah
Shirley Crockmeyer
Trial by Fire
Roberta
Kansas
Holly
Smoke
Sue the Waitress
Fighting for My Daughter
Peggy
Chicago Hope
Ellen Wheeler
Fearless
Nan Gordon
Daybreak
Mom
Sirens
Heidi Schiller
Cool World
Isabelle Malley
CrissCross
Shelly
Leaving Normal
Ellen
Straight Talk
Lily
Falling from Grace
Sally Cutler
Pastime
Inez Brice
State of Grace
Irene
Law & Order
Jane Schuman
Brain Dead
Mrs. Halsey
Stars & Bars
Shanda Gage
Anna
Assistant #2
Tin Men
Nellie
American Playhouse
Kitty MacKay