Deirdre O'Connell
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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)
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Cool World (1992)
as Isabelle Malley
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
as Hollis
Eddington (2025)
as Dawn Bodkin
City of Angels (1998)
as Mrs. Balford
St. Vincent (2014)
as Linda
What Happens in Vegas (2008)
as Mrs. Fuller
Secondhand Lions (2003)
as Helen
Breast Men (1997)
as Lacey (voice)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
as Ellen's Mother
State of Grace (1990)
as Irene
Dragonfly (2002)
as Gwyn
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
as Mrs. Gerber
Being Flynn (2012)
as Frowzy Woman
The Greatest (2009)
as Joyce
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
as Linda
Straight Talk (1992)
as Lily
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
as Deb (voice)
Smoke (1995)
as Sue the Waitress
Tin Men (1987)
as Nellie
Winter Passing (2006)
as Deirdre
The Requin (2022)
as Anne
Fearless (1993)
as Nan Gordon
Trial by Fire (1995)
as Roberta
A Dog Year (2009)
as Donna Brady
Imaginary Heroes (2004)
as Marge Dwyer
Just Ask My Children (2001)
as Landry
Apartment Troubles (2014)
as Ina the Tarot Reader
Just Looking (1999)
as Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
Stephanie Daley (2007)
as Jane
Murder in a Small Town (1999)
as Kate Faxton
Detours (2016)
as Beth
Stars & Bars (1988)
as Shanda Gage
In the Radiant City (2016)
Actor
Lez Bomb (2018)
as Rose Anderson
American Loser (2007)
as Cynthia
Brain Dead (1990)
as Mrs. Halsey
Lifeform (1996)
as Dr. Gracia Scott
Daybreak (1993)
as Mom
Our Son, the Matchmaker (1996)
as Winona
Socket (2007)
as Hospital Staff
Fighting for My Daughter (1995)
as Peggy
I Am a Seagull (2019)
as Didi / Arkadina
Leaving Normal (1992)
as Ellen
The Boy Downstairs (2018)
as Amy
CrissCross (1992)
as Shelly
A Deadly Vision (1997)
as Marilyn Middleton
Diane (2019)
as Donna
Gabriel (2015)
as Meredith
Anna (1987)
as Assistant #2
Kansas (1995)
as Holly
Falling from Grace (1992)
as Sally Cutler
Relative Evil (2001)
as Phyllis
Made in Eddington (2025)
as Self
Chasing the Dragon (1996)
as Doris
Misplaced (1989)
as Ella
Pastime (1990)
as Inez Brice
The Holdouts (2017)
as Annie
Ghostwritten (2022)
as Mary Laury
The Quitter (2014)
as Kathleen Lembo