Deirdre O'Connell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 30, 1951 (age 74)
- Place of birth
- Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Credits
- 83
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)
Known for
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004Movie
Hollis
Marvel's Daredevil
2015TV
Anna Nelson
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Judge N. Owens
What Happens in Vegas
2008Movie
Mrs. Fuller
City of Angels
1998Movie
Mrs. Balford
Person of Interest
2011TV
Joan
Filmography
The Beast in Me
2025TV
Carol McGiddish
Made in Eddington
2025Movie
Self
Eddington
2025Movie
Dawn Bodkin
The Better Sister
2025TV
Debbie Macintosh
The Penguin
2024TV
Francis Cobb
The Big Door Prize
2023TV
Eloise Hubbard
The Bear
2022TV
Mary 'Crazy Mary' Heyman
Ghostwritten
2022Movie
Mary Laury
Outer Range
2022TV
Patricia Tillerson
The Requin
2022Movie
Anne
Stars in the House
2020TV
Self - Winner
I Am a Seagull
2019Movie
Didi / Arkadina
Diane
2019Movie
Donna
Lez Bomb
2018Movie
Rose Anderson
The Boy Downstairs
2018Movie
Amy
The Holdouts
2017Movie
Annie
In the Radiant City
2016Movie
Detours
2016Movie
Beth
Gabriel
2015Movie
Meredith
Marvel's Daredevil
2015TV
Anna Nelson
The Affair
2014TV
Athena Bailey
St. Vincent
2014Movie
Linda
Madam Secretary
2014TV
Audrey Stewart
The Quitter
2014Movie
Kathleen Lembo
Apartment Troubles
2014Movie
Ina the Tarot Reader
Being Flynn
2012Movie
Frowzy Woman
Person of Interest
2011TV
Joan
Unforgettable
2011TV
Sue Kelly
You Don't Know Jack
2010Movie
Linda
A Dog Year
2009Movie
Donna Brady
Nurse Jackie
2009TV
Helen
The Greatest
2009Movie
Joyce
Wendy and Lucy
2008Movie
Deb (voice)
Synecdoche, New York
2008Movie
Ellen's Mother
What Happens in Vegas
2008Movie
Mrs. Fuller
Socket
2007Movie
Hospital Staff
American Loser
2007Movie
Cynthia
Stephanie Daley
2007Movie
Jane
Winter Passing
2006Movie
Deirdre
The Closer
2005TV
Liz Provenza
Imaginary Heroes
2004Movie
Marge Dwyer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004Movie
Hollis
Secondhand Lions
2003Movie
Helen
Dragonfly
2002Movie
Gwyn
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001TV
Nina Lipton
Hearts in Atlantis
2001Movie
Mrs. Gerber
Just Ask My Children
2001Movie
Landry
Relative Evil
2001Movie
Phyllis
Just Looking
1999Movie
Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Judge N. Owens
Murder in a Small Town
1999Movie
Kate Faxton
L.A. Doctors
1998TV
Suzanne Blum
City of Angels
1998Movie
Mrs. Balford
From the Earth to the Moon
1998TV
Barbara Young
Breast Men
1997Movie
Lacey (voice)
A Deadly Vision
1997Movie
Marilyn Middleton
The Practice
1997TV
Jenny Baldwin
Lifeform
1996Movie
Dr. Gracia Scott
Chasing the Dragon
1996Movie
Doris
Our Son, the Matchmaker
1996Movie
Winona
Second Noah
1996TV
Shirley Crockmeyer
Trial by Fire
1995Movie
Roberta
Kansas
1995Movie
Holly
Smoke
1995Movie
Sue the Waitress
Fighting for My Daughter
1995Movie
Peggy
Chicago Hope
1994TV
Ellen Wheeler
Fearless
1993Movie
Nan Gordon
Daybreak
1993Movie
Mom
Sirens
1993TV
Heidi Schiller
Cool World
1992Movie
Isabelle Malley
CrissCross
1992Movie
Shelly
Leaving Normal
1992Movie
Ellen
Straight Talk
1992Movie
Lily
Falling from Grace
1992Movie
Sally Cutler
Pastime
1990Movie
Inez Brice
State of Grace
1990Movie
Irene
Law & Order
1990TV
Jane Schuman, Valerie Knight, Joanna Wilder
Brain Dead
1990Movie
Mrs. Halsey
Misplaced
1989Movie
Ella
Stars & Bars
1988Movie
Shanda Gage
Anna
1987Movie
Assistant #2
Tin Men
1987Movie
Nellie
American Playhouse
1982TV
Kitty MacKay, Ella