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