Deirdre O'Connell
Date of birth: 1951-12-30
Place of birth: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Deidre O'Connell, Dierdre O'Connell, Дирдри О’Коннелл
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)
Movie Credits
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004-03-19
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, dec
State of Grace
1990-09-14
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects wit
Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Anna
1987-11-28
Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna
Misplaced
1989-09-14
The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jac
Pastime
1990-11-08
A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.
Falling from Grace
1992-02-21
Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove"
Leaving Normal
1992-04-29
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come t
Smoke
1995-06-09
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid
Fearless
1993-10-15
After surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability,
Stephanie Daley
2007-04-20
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the bl
Imaginary Heroes
2004-09-14
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shoc
The Greatest
2009-02-07
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind
Cool World
1992-07-10
A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Ja
Straight Talk
1992-04-03
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Acc
Breast Men
1997-12-13
We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. H
Lifeform
1996-09-24
When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings wi
American Loser
2007-06-14
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's s
Our Son, the Matchmaker
1996-05-08
As seen in flashback, this is the story of 43-year-old Julie a beautician who when 15 was forced by
Gabriel
2014-04-17
Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it
In the Radiant City
2016-09-11
A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carr
Just Looking
1999-10-21
It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it,"
Daybreak
1993-05-08
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical
Ghostwritten
2022-06-19
Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a re
Eddington
2025-07-16
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is
The Holdouts
2017-06-29
A comedy about New Yorkers who can’t afford to live in New York anymore
Synecdoche, New York
2008-10-24
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li
Hearts in Atlantis
2001-09-28
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Detours
2016-04-20
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her wid
Trial by Fire
1995-10-01
A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interes
You Don't Know Jack
2010-06-27
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Dragonfly
2002-02-22
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Winter Passing
2006-02-07
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publica
St. Vincent
2014-10-09
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, baw
Just Ask My Children
2001-09-10
Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and impriso
Murder in a Small Town
1999-01-10
A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the m
The Boy Downstairs
2018-02-16
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her e
Kansas
1995-07-27
When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to car
Secondhand Lions
2003-09-19
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric
Diane
2019-03-28
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around
The Quitter
2014-09-12
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old
A Deadly Vision
1997-04-21
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to h
Lez Bomb
2018-11-09
A closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming-out effo
Relative Evil
2001-09-01
Relative Evil (aka Ball in the House) - When JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab, he is gre
What Happens in Vegas
2008-05-07
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the so
CrissCross
1992-05-08
A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, whe
Being Flynn
2012-03-02
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-procla
Chasing the Dragon
1996-06-19
Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
Tin Men
1987-03-06
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man ver
Brain Dead
1990-01-16
In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that
I Am a Seagull
2019-11-04
Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" is interpreted by a handful of top-shelf stage actors from New York Ci
A Dog Year
2009-09-03
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's
Wendy and Lucy
2008-12-10
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog
The Requin
2022-01-28
A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away the
Fighting for My Daughter
1995-01-09
Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a
Made in Eddington
2025-10-21
Made in Eddington gives a behind the scenes look at the making of Ari Aster's modern political night