Deirdre O'Connell

Deirdre O'Connell is an American character actress who has worked extensively on stage, screen, and television. O'Connell began her career at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. She made herBroadway 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: Acting

Born: null, 1951-01-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Tin Men	Nellie	63
2	1987	Anna	Assistant #2	56
3	1988	Stars & Bars	Shanda Gage	44
4	1989	Misplaced	Ella	0
5	1990	Brain Dead	Mrs. Halsey	57
6	1990	State of Grace	Irene	69
7	1990	Pastime	Inez Brice	57
8	1992	Falling from Grace	Sally Cutler	47
9	1992	Straight Talk	Lily	60
10	1992	Leaving Normal	Ellen	62
11	1992	CrissCross	Shelly	63
12	1992	Cool World	Isabelle Malley	56
13	1993	Daybreak	Mom	53
14	1993	Fearless	Nan Gordon	69
15	1995	Fighting for My Daughter	Peggy	20
16	1995	Smoke	Sue the Waitress	72
17	1995	Kansas	Holly	50
18	1995	Trial by Fire	Roberta	58
19	1996	Our Son, the Matchmaker	Winona	63
20	1996	Chasing the Dragon	Doris	55
21	1996	Lifeform	Dr. Gracia Scott	50
22	1997	A Deadly Vision	Marilyn Middleton	45
23	1997	Breast Men	Lacey	53
24	1999	Murder in a Small Town	Kate Faxton	52
25	1999	Just Looking	Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher	60
26	2001	Relative Evil	Phyllis	58
27	2001	Just Ask My Children	Landry	65
28	2001	Hearts in Atlantis	Mrs. Gerber	67
29	2002	Dragonfly	Gwyn	65
30	2003	Secondhand Lions	Helen	72
31	2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Hollis	81
32	2004	Imaginary Heroes	Marge Dwyer	65
33	2006	Winter Passing	Deirdre	62
34	2007	Stephanie Daley	Jane	58
35	2007	American Loser	Cynthia	52
36	2008	What Happens in Vegas	Mrs. Fuller	61
37	2008	Synecdoche, New York	Ellen's Mother	75
38	2008	Wendy and Lucy	Deb (voice)	68
39	2009	The Greatest	Joyce	62
40	2009	A Dog Year	Donna Brady	62
41	2010	You Don't Know Jack	Linda	71
42	2012	Being Flynn	Frowzy Woman	61
43	2014	Gabriel	Meredith	69
44	2014	The Quitter	Kathleen Lembo	0
45	2014	St. Vincent	Linda	71
46	2016	Detours	Beth	50
47	2016	In the Radiant City		71
48	2018	Lez Bomb	Rose Anderson	69
49	2022	The Requin	Anne	48
50	2022	Ghostwritten	Mary Laury	0
51		Eddington	Dawn	0
52	2017	The Holdouts	Annie	0
53	2018	The Boy Downstairs	Amy	58
54	2019	Diane	Donna	62
55	2019	I Am a Seagull	Didi / Arkadina	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1990	Law & Order	Jane Schuman	74
2	1990	Law & Order	Valerie Knight	74
3	1990	Law & Order	Joanna Wilder	74
4	1993	Sirens	Heidi Schiller	60
5	1994	Chicago Hope		72
6	1996	Second Noah	Shirley Crockmeyer	60
7	1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Barbara Young	82
8	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Judge N. Owens	79
9	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Nina Lipton	76
10	2005	The Closer	Liz Provenza	79
11	2009	Nurse Jackie	Helen	70
12	2011	Person of Interest	Joan	81
13	2014	The Affair	Athena Bailey	66
14	2015	Marvel's Daredevil	Anna Nelson	82
15	2020	Stars in the House	Self - Winner	0
16	2022	Outer Range	Patricia Tillerson	69
17	2023	The Big Door Prize	Eloise Hubbard	62
18	2024	The Penguin	Francis Cobb	85