Actor
Deirdre O'Connell
Biography

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 ...

Known For
Acting
2022 -- Ghostwritten | Mary Laury
2022 -- The Requin | Anne
2019 -- I Am a Seagull | Didi / Arkadina
2019 -- Diane | Donna
2018 -- Lez Bomb | Rose Anderson
2018 -- The Boy Downstairs | Amy
2017 -- The Holdouts | Annie
2016 -- In the Radiant City |
2016 -- Detours | Beth
2014 -- St. Vincent | Linda
2014 -- The Quitter | Kathleen Lembo
2014 -- Gabriel | Meredith
2012 -- Being Flynn | Frowzy Woman
2010 -- You Don't Know Jack | Linda
2009 -- A Dog Year | Donna Brady
2009 -- The Greatest | Joyce
2008 -- Wendy and Lucy | Deb (voice)
2008 -- Synecdoche, New York | Ellen's Mother
2008 -- What Happens in Vegas | Mrs. Fuller
2007 -- American Loser | Cynthia
2007 -- Stephanie Daley | Jane
2006 -- Winter Passing | Deirdre
2004 -- Imaginary Heroes | Marge Dwyer
2004 -- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Hollis
2003 -- Secondhand Lions | Helen
2002 -- Dragonfly | Gwyn
2001 -- Hearts in Atlantis | Mrs. Gerber
2001 -- Just Ask My Children | Landry
2001 -- Relative Evil | Phyllis
1999 -- Just Looking | Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
1999 -- Murder in a Small Town | Kate Faxton
1997 -- Breast Men | Lacey
1997 -- A Deadly Vision | Marilyn Middleton
1996 -- Lifeform | Dr. Gracia Scott
1996 -- Chasing the Dragon | Doris
1996 -- Our Son, the Matchmaker | Winona
1995 -- Trial by Fire | Roberta
1995 -- Kansas | Holly
1995 -- Smoke | Sue the Waitress
1995 -- Fighting for My Daughter | Peggy
1993 -- Fearless | Nan Gordon
1993 -- Daybreak | Mom
1992 -- Cool World | Isabelle Malley
1992 -- CrissCross | Shelly
1992 -- Leaving Normal | Ellen
1992 -- Straight Talk | Lily
1992 -- Falling from Grace | Sally Cutler
1990 -- Pastime | Inez Brice
1990 -- State of Grace | Irene
1990 -- Brain Dead | Mrs. Halsey
1989 -- Misplaced | Ella
1988 -- Stars & Bars | Shanda Gage
1987 -- Anna | Assistant #2
1987 -- Tin Men | Nellie
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