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