Acting credits
82
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Deirdre O'Connell
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 58Series: 24
TMDB ID: 77013
IMDb ID: nm0640055
Known for: Acting
Born: December 30, 1951
Age: 74
Place of birth: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1982 - 2025
Years active: 44
Average TMDB rating: 6.64
Wikidata: Q1524102
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)
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Deirdre O'Connell.
as Self
Made in Eddington
2025 • Movie
as Dawn Bodkin
Eddington
2025 • Movie
as Mary Laury
Ghostwritten
2022 • Movie
as Anne
The Requin
2022 • Movie
as Didi / Arkadina
I Am a Seagull
2019 • Movie
as Donna
Diane
2019 • Movie
as Rose Anderson
Lez Bomb
2018 • Movie
as Amy
The Boy Downstairs
2018 • Movie
as Annie
The Holdouts
2017 • Movie
In the Radiant City
2016 • Movie
as Beth
Detours
2016 • Movie
as Meredith
Gabriel
2015 • Movie
as Linda
St. Vincent
2014 • Movie
as Kathleen Lembo
The Quitter
2014 • Movie
as Ina the Tarot Reader
Apartment Troubles
2014 • Movie
as Frowzy Woman
Being Flynn
2012 • Movie
as Linda
You Don't Know Jack
2010 • Movie
as Donna Brady
A Dog Year
2009 • Movie
as Joyce
The Greatest
2009 • Movie
as Deb (voice)
Wendy and Lucy
2008 • Movie
as Ellen's Mother
Synecdoche, New York
2008 • Movie
as Mrs. Fuller
What Happens in Vegas
2008 • Movie
as Hospital Staff
Socket
2007 • Movie
as Cynthia
American Loser
2007 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Deirdre O'Connell.
as Carol McGiddish • 4 eps
The Beast in Me
2025 • Series
as Debbie Macintosh • 2 eps
The Better Sister
2025 • Series
as Francis Cobb • 8 eps
The Penguin
2024 • Series
as Eloise Hubbard • 1 eps
The Big Door Prize
2023 • Series
as Mary 'Crazy Mary' Heyman • 1 eps
The Bear
2022 • Series
as Patricia Tillerson • 5 eps
Outer Range
2022 • Series
as Self - Winner • 1 eps
Stars in the House
2020 • Series
as Anna Nelson • 3 eps
Marvel's Daredevil
2015 • Series
as Athena Bailey • 7 eps
The Affair
2014 • Series
as Audrey Stewart • 1 eps
Madam Secretary
2014 • Series
as Joan • 1 eps
Person of Interest
2011 • Series
as Sue Kelly • 1 eps
Unforgettable
2011 • Series
as Helen • 3 eps
Nurse Jackie
2009 • Series
as Liz Provenza • 1 eps
The Closer
2005 • Series
as Nina Lipton • 1 eps
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 • Series
as Judge N. Owens • 1 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 • Series
as Suzanne Blum • 19 eps
L.A. Doctors
1998 • Series
as Barbara Young • 1 eps
From the Earth to the Moon
1998 • Series
as Jenny Baldwin • 2 eps
The Practice
1997 • Series
as Shirley Crockmeyer • 21 eps
Second Noah
1996 • Series
as Ellen Wheeler • 2 eps
Chicago Hope
1994 • Series
as Heidi Schiller • 13 eps
Sirens
1993 • Series
as Jane Schuman • 1 eps
Law & Order
1990 • Series
as Kitty MacKay • 1 eps
American Playhouse
1982 • Series