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Deirdre O'Connell
Known for: ActingDeirdre 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)
Filmography 35
The Penguin
as Francis Cobb 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Hollis 
Eddington
as Dawn Bodkin 
St. Vincent
as Linda 
What Happens in Vegas
as Mrs. Fuller 
Secondhand Lions
as Helen 
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen's Mother 
Hearts in Atlantis
as Mrs. Gerber 
Cool World
as Isabelle Malley 
State of Grace
as Irene 
The Requin
as Anne 
Smoke
as Sue the Waitress 
You Don't Know Jack
as Linda 
Straight Talk
as Lily 
The Greatest
as Joyce 
Just Looking
as Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher 
Winter Passing
as Deirdre 
Fearless
as Nan Gordon 
Tin Men
as Nellie 
A Deadly Vision
as Marilyn Middleton 
CrissCross
as Shelly 
Imaginary Heroes
as Marge Dwyer 
A Dog Year
as Donna Brady 
Detours
as Beth 
Stars & Bars
as Shanda Gage 
American Loser
as Cynthia 
Daybreak
as Mom 
Stephanie Daley
as Jane 
Diane
as Donna 
Apartment Troubles
as Ina the Tarot Reader 
Lez Bomb
as Rose Anderson 
Just Ask My Children
as Landry 
The Boy Downstairs
as Amy 
Falling from Grace
as Sally Cutler