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