Deirdre O'Connell
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)
81 acting credits
Acting · 81
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Person of Interest
2011
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Closer
2005
Marvel's Daredevil
2015
The Practice
1997
Chicago Hope
1994
Madam Secretary
2014
Unforgettable
2011
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
Stars in the House
2020
The Affair
2014
The Penguin
2024
Nurse Jackie
2009
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
Outer Range
2022
L.A. Doctors
1998
The Beast in Me
2025
The Better Sister
2025
The Big Door Prize
2023
Eddington
2025
City of Angels
1998
Sirens
1993
What Happens in Vegas
2008
Second Noah
1996
St. Vincent
2014
Synecdoche, New York
2008
Dragonfly
2002
Cool World
1992
Secondhand Lions
2003
Smoke
1995
State of Grace
1990
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
The Requin
2022
You Don't Know Jack
2010
Fearless
1993
Tin Men
1987
Brain Dead
1990
The Greatest
2009
Just Ask My Children
2001
Wendy and Lucy
2008
Being Flynn
2012
Diane
2019
Straight Talk
1992
Daybreak
1993
Breast Men
1997
Leaving Normal
1992
A Dog Year
2009
Imaginary Heroes
2004
Stars & Bars
1988
Anna
1987
Trial by Fire
1995
Lifeform
1996
CrissCross
1992
Murder in a Small Town
1999
Gabriel
2015
Lez Bomb
2018
American Loser
2007
Stephanie Daley
2007
Just Looking
1999
Pastime
1990
The Boy Downstairs
2018
A Deadly Vision
1997
Winter Passing
2006
Socket
2007
In the Radiant City
2016
Relative Evil
2001
Our Son, the Matchmaker
1996
Kansas
1995
Misplaced
1989
Chasing the Dragon
1996
Apartment Troubles
2014
Ghostwritten
2022
Detours
2016
I Am a Seagull
2019
Fighting for My Daughter
1995
Falling from Grace
1992
Made in Eddington
2025
The Holdouts
2017
The Quitter
2014