
Deirdre O'Connell
Acting • Born 1951-12-30
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)
Filmography
81 credits
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Movie • 2004
Hollis

State of Grace
Movie • 1990
Irene

Stars & Bars
Movie • 1988
Shanda Gage

Anna
Movie • 1987
Assistant #2

Misplaced
Movie • 1989
Ella

Pastime
Movie • 1990
Inez Brice

Falling from Grace
Movie • 1992
Sally Cutler

Leaving Normal
Movie • 1992
Ellen

Smoke
Movie • 1995
Sue the Waitress

Fearless
Movie • 1993
Nan Gordon

Stephanie Daley
Movie • 2007
Jane

Imaginary Heroes
Movie • 2004
Marge Dwyer

The Greatest
Movie • 2009
Joyce

Cool World
Movie • 1992
Isabelle Malley

Straight Talk
Movie • 1992
Lily

Breast Men
Movie • 1997
Lacey

Lifeform
Movie • 1996
Dr. Gracia Scott

American Loser
Movie • 2007
Cynthia

Our Son, the Matchmaker
Movie • 1996
Winona

Gabriel
Movie • 2015
Meredith

In the Radiant City
Movie • 2016

Just Looking
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher

Daybreak
Movie • 1993
Mom

Ghostwritten
Movie • 2022
Mary Laury

Eddington
Movie • 2025
Dawn Bodkin

The Holdouts
Movie • 2017
Annie

Synecdoche, New York
Movie • 2008
Ellen's Mother

Hearts in Atlantis
Movie • 2001
Mrs. Gerber

Detours
Movie • 2016
Beth

Trial by Fire
Movie • 1995
Roberta

You Don't Know Jack
Movie • 2010
Linda

Dragonfly
Movie • 2002
Gwyn

Winter Passing
Movie • 2006
Deirdre

St. Vincent
Movie • 2014
Linda

Just Ask My Children
Movie • 2001
Landry

Murder in a Small Town
Movie • 1999
Kate Faxton

The Boy Downstairs
Movie • 2018
Amy

Kansas
Movie • 1995
Holly

Secondhand Lions
Movie • 2003
Helen

Diane
Movie • 2019
Donna

The Quitter
Movie • 2014
Kathleen Lembo

A Deadly Vision
Movie • 1997
Marilyn Middleton

Lez Bomb
Movie • 2018
Rose Anderson

Relative Evil
Movie • 2001
Phyllis

What Happens in Vegas
Movie • 2008
Mrs. Fuller

CrissCross
Movie • 1992
Shelly

Being Flynn
Movie • 2012
Frowzy Woman

Chasing the Dragon
Movie • 1996
Doris

Tin Men
Movie • 1987
Nellie

Brain Dead
Movie • 1990
Mrs. Halsey

I Am a Seagull
Movie • 2019
Didi / Arkadina

A Dog Year
Movie • 2009
Donna Brady

Wendy and Lucy
Movie • 2008
Deb (voice)

The Requin
Movie • 2022
Anne

Fighting for My Daughter
Movie • 1995
Peggy

Made in Eddington
Movie • 2025
Self

Apartment Troubles
Movie • 2014
Ina the Tarot Reader

Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Ellen Wheeler

Sirens
TV • 1993
Heidi Schiller

Second Noah
TV • 1996
Shirley Crockmeyer

The Big Door Prize
TV • 2023
Eloise Hubbard

From the Earth to the Moon
TV • 1998
Barbara Young

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Jane Schuman

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Valerie Knight

Nurse Jackie
TV • 2009
Helen

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Judge N. Owens

The Affair
TV • 2014
Athena Bailey

Outer Range
TV • 2022
Patricia Tillerson

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Joanna Wilder

Stars in the House
TV • 2020
Self - Winner

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Nina Lipton

Person of Interest
TV • 2011
Joan

The Penguin
TV • 2024
Francis Cobb

Marvel's Daredevil
TV • 2015
Anna Nelson

The Closer
TV • 2005
Liz Provenza

L.A. Doctors
TV • 1998
Suzanne Blum

The Better Sister
TV • 2025
Debbie Macintosh

Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Audrey Stewart

The Practice
TV • 1997
Jenny Baldwin

Unforgettable
TV • 2011
Sue Kelly

The Beast in Me
TV • 2025
Carol McGiddish