Deirdre O'Connell

Acting · Born 1951-12-30 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

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…

Filmography

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Hollis
• State of Grace as Irene
• Smoke as Sue the Waitress
• Synecdoche, New York as Ellen's Mother
• You Don't Know Jack as Linda
• St. Vincent as Linda
• Secondhand Lions as Helen
• Stars & Bars as Shanda Gage
• Anna as Assistant #2
• Falling from Grace as Sally Cutler

TV

• From the Earth to the Moon as Barbara Young
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Judge N. Owens
• Person of Interest as Joan
• The Penguin as Francis Cobb
• Marvel's Daredevil as Anna Nelson
• The Closer as Liz Provenza
• The Practice as Jenny Baldwin
• Chicago Hope as Ellen Wheeler
• Sirens as Heidi Schiller
• Second Noah as Shirley Crockmeyer