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