Deirdre O'Connell

Actor Dec 30 (age 74) Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA 1987–2027 (40 year career)

6.3 avg rating

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 stag…

Known For

Film

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hollis

Film

The Penguin

Francis Cobb

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Ellen's Mother

Film

St. Vincent

Linda

Film

What Happens in Vegas

Mrs. Fuller

Film

Secondhand Lions

Helen

Film

Smoke

Sue the Waitress

Film

Dragonfly

Gwyn

Filmography

Acting (80)

Movies (58)

Untitled The Batman Sequel

2027 Upcoming

as Francis Cobb

Sep 30

Eddington

2025

as Dawn Bodkin

6.4

Made in Eddington

2025

as Self

The Requin

as Anne

Ghostwritten

as Mary Laury

Diane

as Donna

I Am a Seagull

as Didi / Arkadina

Lez Bomb

as Rose Anderson

The Boy Downstairs

as Amy

The Holdouts

as Annie

Detours

as Beth

In the Radiant City

Gabriel

as Meredith

St. Vincent

as Linda

Apartment Troubles

as Ina the Tarot Reader

5.0

The Quitter

2014

as Kathleen Lembo

Being Flynn

as Frowzy Woman

You Don't Know Jack

as Linda

The Greatest

as Joyce

A Dog Year

as Donna Brady

What Happens in Vegas

as Mrs. Fuller

Synecdoche, New York

as Ellen's Mother

Wendy and Lucy

as Deb (voice)

Stephanie Daley

as Jane

American Loser

as Cynthia

Winter Passing

as Deirdre

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

as Hollis

Imaginary Heroes

as Marge Dwyer

Secondhand Lions

as Helen

Dragonfly

as Gwyn

Relative Evil

as Phyllis

Hearts in Atlantis

as Mrs. Gerber

Just Ask My Children

as Landry

Just Looking

as Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher

5.7

Murder in a Small Town

as Kate Faxton

A Deadly Vision

as Marilyn Middleton

Breast Men

as Lacey

Our Son, the Matchmaker

as Winona

Lifeform

as Dr. Gracia Scott

Chasing the Dragon

as Doris

Smoke

as Sue the Waitress

Kansas

as Holly

Trial by Fire

as Roberta

Fighting for My Daughter

as Peggy

Fearless

as Nan Gordon

Daybreak

as Mom

Falling from Grace

as Sally Cutler

Cool World

as Isabelle Malley

Straight Talk

as Lily

CrissCross

as Shelly

Leaving Normal

as Ellen

State of Grace

as Irene

Brain Dead

as Mrs. Halsey

Pastime

as Inez Brice

Misplaced

as Ella

Stars & Bars

as Shanda Gage

Tin Men

as Nellie

Anna

as Assistant #2

Television (22)

The Beast in Me

as Carol McGiddish

The Better Sister

as Debbie Macintosh

The Penguin

as Francis Cobb

The Big Door Prize

as Eloise Hubbard

Outer Range

as Patricia Tillerson

6.9

Stars in the House

2020

as Self - Winner

Marvel's Daredevil

as Anna Nelson

Madam Secretary

as Audrey Stewart

The Affair

as Athena Bailey

Person of Interest

as Joan

Unforgettable

as Sue Kelly

Nurse Jackie

as Helen

The Closer

as Liz Provenza

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

as Nina Lipton

7.6

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Judge N. Owens

7.9

From the Earth to the Moon

as Barbara Young

L.A. Doctors

as Suzanne Blum

The Practice

as Jenny Baldwin

Second Noah

as Shirley Crockmeyer

Chicago Hope

as Ellen Wheeler

Sirens

as Heidi Schiller

Law & Order

as Jane Schuman