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Deirdre O'Connell

Born 1951-12-30
📍 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 82

The Beast in Me
as Carol McGiddish
2025
Made in Eddington
as Self
2025
Eddington
as Dawn Bodkin
2025
The Better Sister
as Debbie Macintosh
2025
The Penguin
as Francis Cobb
2024
The Big Door Prize
as Eloise Hubbard
2023
Ghostwritten
as Mary Laury
2022
Outer Range
as Patricia Tillerson
2022
The Requin
as Anne
2022
Stars in the House
as Self - Winner
2020
I Am a Seagull
as Didi / Arkadina
2019
Diane
as Donna
2019
Lez Bomb
as Rose Anderson
2018
The Boy Downstairs
as Amy
2018
The Holdouts
as Annie
2017
In the Radiant City
2016
Detours
as Beth
2016
Gabriel
as Meredith
2015
Marvel's Daredevil
as Anna Nelson
2015
The Affair
as Athena Bailey
2014
St. Vincent
as Linda
2014
Madam Secretary
as Audrey Stewart
2014
The Quitter
as Kathleen Lembo
2014
Apartment Troubles
as Ina the Tarot Reader
2014
Being Flynn
as Frowzy Woman
2012
Person of Interest
as Joan
2011
Unforgettable
as Sue Kelly
2011
You Don't Know Jack
as Linda
2010
A Dog Year
as Donna Brady
2009
Nurse Jackie
as Helen
2009
The Greatest
as Joyce
2009
Wendy and Lucy
as Deb (voice)
2008
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen's Mother
2008
What Happens in Vegas
as Mrs. Fuller
2008
Socket
as Hospital Staff
2007
American Loser
as Cynthia
2007
Stephanie Daley
as Jane
2007
Winter Passing
as Deirdre
2006
The Closer
as Liz Provenza
2005
Imaginary Heroes
as Marge Dwyer
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Hollis
2004
Secondhand Lions
as Helen
2003
Dragonfly
as Gwyn
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Nina Lipton
2001
Hearts in Atlantis
as Mrs. Gerber
2001
Just Ask My Children
as Landry
2001
Relative Evil
as Phyllis
2001
Just Looking
as Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Judge N. Owens
1999
Murder in a Small Town
as Kate Faxton
1999
L.A. Doctors
as Suzanne Blum
1998
City of Angels
as Mrs. Balford
1998
From the Earth to the Moon
as Barbara Young
1998
Breast Men
as Lacey
1997
A Deadly Vision
as Marilyn Middleton
1997
The Practice
as Jenny Baldwin
1997
Lifeform
as Dr. Gracia Scott
1996
Chasing the Dragon
as Doris
1996
Our Son, the Matchmaker
as Winona
1996
Second Noah
as Shirley Crockmeyer
1996
Trial by Fire
as Roberta
1995
Kansas
as Holly
1995
Smoke
as Sue the Waitress
1995
Fighting for My Daughter
as Peggy
1995
Chicago Hope
as Ellen Wheeler
1994
Fearless
as Nan Gordon
1993
Daybreak
as Mom
1993
Sirens
as Heidi Schiller
1993
Cool World
as Isabelle Malley
1992
CrissCross
as Shelly
1992
Leaving Normal
as Ellen
1992
Straight Talk
as Lily
1992
Falling from Grace
as Sally Cutler
1992
Pastime
as Inez Brice
1990
State of Grace
as Irene
1990
Law & Order
as Jane Schuman
1990
Law & Order
as Valerie Knight
1990
Law & Order
as Joanna Wilder
1990
Brain Dead
as Mrs. Halsey
1990
Stars & Bars
as Shanda Gage
1988
Anna
as Assistant #2
1987
Tin Men
as Nellie
1987