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)
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Judge N. Owens
Law & Order
1990 · Jane Schuman
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Nina Lipton
Person of Interest
2011 · Joan
The Closer
2005 · Liz Provenza
Chicago Hope
1994 · Ellen Wheeler
The Bear
2022 · Mary 'Crazy Mary' Heym...
Marvel's Daredevil
2015 · Anna Nelson
Madam Secretary
2014 · Audrey Stewart
The Practice
1997 · Jenny Baldwin
Unforgettable
2011 · Sue Kelly
The Penguin
2024 · Francis Cobb
Nurse Jackie
2009 · Helen
American Playhouse
1982 · Kitty MacKay
The Affair
2014 · Athena Bailey
The Beast in Me
2025 · Carol McGiddish
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · Hollis
Stars in the House
2020 · Self - Winner
Outer Range
2022 · Patricia Tillerson
The Better Sister
2025 · Debbie Macintosh
From the Earth to the Moon
1998 · Barbara Young
The Big Door Prize
2023 · Eloise Hubbard
Eddington
2025 · Dawn Bodkin
L.A. Doctors
1998 · Suzanne Blum
City of Angels
1998 · Mrs. Balford
What Happens in Vegas
2008 · Mrs. Fuller
St. Vincent
2014 · Linda
Secondhand Lions
2003 · Helen
Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Ellen's Mother
Dragonfly
2002 · Gwyn
State of Grace
1990 · Irene
Cool World
1992 · Isabelle Malley
Hearts in Atlantis
2001 · Mrs. Gerber
Sirens
1993 · Heidi Schiller
Wendy and Lucy
2008 · Deb (voice)
The Requin
2022 · Anne
Second Noah
1996 · Shirley Crockmeyer
You Don't Know Jack
2010 · Linda
Smoke
1995 · Sue the Waitress
The Greatest
2009 · Joyce
Being Flynn
2012 · Frowzy Woman
Fearless
1993 · Nan Gordon
Winter Passing
2006 · Deirdre
Straight Talk
1992 · Lily
Tin Men
1987 · Nellie
Breast Men
1997 · Lacey (voice)
A Dog Year
2009 · Donna Brady
Socket
2007 · Hospital Staff
Brain Dead
1990 · Mrs. Halsey
Just Ask My Children
2001 · Landry
Stars & Bars
1988 · Shanda Gage
Imaginary Heroes
2004 · Marge Dwyer
Daybreak
1993 · Mom
Lifeform
1996 · Dr. Gracia Scott
Leaving Normal
1992 · Ellen
Just Looking
1999 · Mrs. Braverman, Lenny'...
Lez Bomb
2018 · Rose Anderson
CrissCross
1992 · Shelly
Apartment Troubles
2014 · Ina the Tarot Reader
American Loser
2007 · Cynthia
Stephanie Daley
2007 · Jane
Falling from Grace
1992 · Sally Cutler
A Deadly Vision
1997 · Marilyn Middleton
Made in Eddington
2025 · Self
The Boy Downstairs
2018 · Amy
Murder in a Small Town
1999 · Kate Faxton
Anna
1987 · Assistant #2
Detours
2016 · Beth
Diane
2019 · Donna
Kansas
1995 · Holly
Trial by Fire
1995 · Roberta
Fighting for My Daughter
1995 · Peggy
Pastime
1990 · Inez Brice
In the Radiant City
2016
I Am a Seagull
2019 · Didi / Arkadina
Relative Evil
2001 · Phyllis
Gabriel
2015 · Meredith
Our Son, the Matchmaker
1996 · Winona
The Quitter
2014 · Kathleen Lembo
The Holdouts
2017 · Annie
Ghostwritten
2022 · Mary Laury
Chasing the Dragon
1996 · Doris