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)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(Hollis)
State of Grace
(Irene)
Stars & Bars
(Shanda Gage)
Anna
(Assistant #2)
Falling from Grace
(Sally Cutler)
Misplaced
(Ella)
Pastime
(Inez Brice)
Leaving Normal
(Ellen)
Smoke
(Sue the Waitress)
Fearless
(Nan Gordon)
Stephanie Daley
(Jane)
Imaginary Heroes
(Marge Dwyer)
The Greatest
(Joyce)
Cool World
(Isabelle Malley)
Straight Talk
(Lily)
Breast Men
(Lacey)
Lifeform
(Dr. Gracia Scott)
American Loser
(Cynthia)
Our Son, the Matchmaker
(Winona)
Gabriel
(Meredith)
In the Radiant City
Just Looking
(Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher)
Daybreak
(Mom)
Ghostwritten
(Mary Laury)
Eddington
(Dawn)
The Holdouts
(Annie)
Synecdoche, New York
(Ellen's Mother)
Hearts in Atlantis
(Mrs. Gerber)
Detours
(Beth)
Trial by Fire
(Roberta)
You Don't Know Jack
(Linda)
Dragonfly
(Gwyn)
Winter Passing
(Deirdre)
Just Ask My Children
(Landry)
St. Vincent
(Linda)
Murder in a Small Town
(Kate Faxton)
The Boy Downstairs
(Amy)
Kansas
(Holly)
Secondhand Lions
(Helen)
Diane
(Donna)
The Quitter
(Kathleen Lembo)
A Deadly Vision
(Marilyn Middleton)
Lez Bomb
(Rose Anderson)
Relative Evil
(Phyllis)
What Happens in Vegas
(Mrs. Fuller)
CrissCross
(Shelly)
Being Flynn
(Frowzy Woman)
Chasing the Dragon
(Doris)
Tin Men
(Nellie)
Brain Dead
(Mrs. Halsey)
I Am a Seagull
(Didi / Arkadina)
A Dog Year
(Donna Brady)
Wendy and Lucy
(Deb (voice))
The Requin
(Anne)
Fighting for My Daughter
(Peggy)
Chicago Hope
Sirens
(Heidi Schiller)
Second Noah
(Shirley Crockmeyer)
The Big Door Prize
(Eloise Hubbard)
From the Earth to the Moon
(Barbara Young)
Law & Order
(Jane Schuman)
Law & Order
(Valerie Knight)
Nurse Jackie
(Helen)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(Judge N. Owens)
The Affair
(Athena Bailey)
Outer Range
(Patricia Tillerson)
Law & Order
(Joanna Wilder)
Stars in the House
(Self - Winner)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(Nina Lipton)
Person of Interest
(Joan)
The Penguin
(Francis Cobb)
Marvel's Daredevil
(Anna Nelson)
The Closer
(Liz Provenza)