Deirdre O'Connell

Known for ActingBorn 1951-12-30 (age 74)Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

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)Read more

Movies & web series

Made in Eddington

The Penguin

L.A. Doctors

Marvel's Daredevil

Person of Interest

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

From the Earth to the Moon

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Closer

Misplaced

The Practice

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Synecdoche, New York

The Beast in Me

Unforgettable

St. Vincent

Secondhand Lions

Ghostwritten

Law & Order

Chicago Hope

Nurse Jackie

In the Radiant City

Smoke

Madam Secretary

You Don't Know Jack

Outer Range

The Better Sister

Gabriel

Sirens

Wendy and Lucy

Lez Bomb

Fearless

The Affair

State of Grace

Just Ask My Children

City of Angels

Hearts in Atlantis

Our Son, the Matchmaker

Eddington

Second Noah

Dragonfly

Imaginary Heroes

Chasing the Dragon

The Big Door Prize

Pastime

Being Flynn

The Greatest

Diane