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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 30, 1951
Place of Birth
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Deidre O'Connell
- Dierdre O'Connell
- Дирдри О’Коннелл
Deirdre O'Connell
1.1 Popularity
Biography
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
7.2
Carol McGiddish
The Beast in Me
2025
0.0
Self
Made in Eddington
2025
6.5
Dawn Bodkin
Eddington
2025
7.0
Debbie Macintosh
The Better Sister
2025
8.4
Francis Cobb
The Penguin
2024
6.2
Eloise Hubbard
The Big Door Prize
2023
7.0
Mary Laury
Ghostwritten
2022
6.9
Patricia Tillerson
Outer Range
2022
4.8
Anne
The Requin
2022
0.0
Self - Winner
Stars in the House
2020
Credits
The Beast in Me
as Carol McGiddish
2025
7.2
Made in Eddington
as Self
2025
0.0
Eddington
as Dawn Bodkin
2025
6.5
The Better Sister
as Debbie Macintosh
2025
7.0
The Penguin
as Francis Cobb
2024
8.4
The Big Door Prize
as Eloise Hubbard
2023
6.2
Ghostwritten
as Mary Laury
2022
7.0
Outer Range
as Patricia Tillerson
2022
6.9
The Requin
as Anne
2022
4.8
Stars in the House
as Self - Winner
2020
0.0
I Am a Seagull
as Didi / Arkadina
2019
0.0
Diane
as Donna
2019
6.1
Lez Bomb
as Rose Anderson
2018
6.7
The Boy Downstairs
as Amy
2018
6.0
The Holdouts
as Annie
2017
0.0
In the Radiant City
2016
7.1
Detours
as Beth
2016
4.7
Marvel's Daredevil
as Anna Nelson
2015
8.2
The Affair
as Athena Bailey
2014
6.7
St. Vincent
as Linda
2014
7.1
Madam Secretary
as Audrey Stewart
2014
7.0
The Quitter
as Kathleen Lembo
2014
0.0
Gabriel
as Meredith
2014
6.7
Being Flynn
as Frowzy Woman
2012
6.2
Person of Interest
as Joan
2011
8.1
Unforgettable
as Sue Kelly
2011
7.2
You Don't Know Jack
as Linda
2010
7.0
A Dog Year
as Donna Brady
2009
6.2
Nurse Jackie
as Helen
2009
7.1
The Greatest
as Joyce
2009
6.2
Wendy and Lucy
as Deb (voice)
2008
6.8
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen's Mother
2008
7.5
What Happens in Vegas
as Mrs. Fuller
2008
6.1
American Loser
as Cynthia
2007
5.2
Stephanie Daley
as Jane
2007
5.7
Winter Passing
as Deirdre
2006
6.1
The Closer
as Liz Provenza
2005
7.9
Imaginary Heroes
as Marge Dwyer
2004
6.5
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Hollis
2004
8.1
Secondhand Lions
as Helen
2003
7.2
Dragonfly
as Gwyn
2002
6.5
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Nina Lipton
2001
7.6
Hearts in Atlantis
as Mrs. Gerber
2001
6.8
Just Ask My Children
as Landry
2001
6.5
Relative Evil
as Phyllis
2001
5.1
Just Looking
as Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
1999
5.7
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Judge N. Owens
1999
7.9
Murder in a Small Town
as Kate Faxton
1999
5.2
L.A. Doctors
as Suzanne Blum
1998
7.0
From the Earth to the Moon
as Barbara Young
1998
8.1
Breast Men
as Lacey
1997
5.2
A Deadly Vision
as Marilyn Middleton
1997
5.6
The Practice
as Jenny Baldwin
1997
7.6
Lifeform
as Dr. Gracia Scott
1996
5.3
Chasing the Dragon
as Doris
1996
5.3
Our Son, the Matchmaker
as Winona
1996
6.3
Second Noah
as Shirley Crockmeyer
1996
6.0
Trial by Fire
as Roberta
1995
5.0
Kansas
as Holly
1995
5.0
Smoke
as Sue the Waitress
1995
7.2
Fighting for My Daughter
as Peggy
1995
2.0
Chicago Hope
as Ellen Wheeler
1994
7.2
Fearless
as Nan Gordon
1993
6.9
Daybreak
as Mom
1993
5.1
Sirens
as Heidi Schiller
1993
6.0
Cool World
as Isabelle Malley
1992
5.6
CrissCross
as Shelly
1992
6.1
Leaving Normal
as Ellen
1992
6.0
Straight Talk
as Lily
1992
6.0
Falling from Grace
as Sally Cutler
1992
4.6
Pastime
as Inez Brice
1990
5.7
State of Grace
as Irene
1990
6.9
Law & Order
as Jane Schuman
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Valerie Knight
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Joanna Wilder
1990
7.4
Brain Dead
as Mrs. Halsey
1990
5.6
🎬
Misplaced
as Ella
1989
0.0
Stars & Bars
as Shanda Gage
1988
4.3
Anna
as Assistant #2
1987
5.1
Tin Men
as Nellie
1987
6.3