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