Deirdre O'Connell
Born 1951
Known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What Happens in Vegas, Eddington.
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)
Movie Credits
Eddington (2025)
Lifeform (1996)
The Requin (2022)
The Boy Downstairs (2018)
Gabriel (2014)
Ghostwritten (2020)
Chasing the Dragon (1996)
Kansas (1995)
Diane (2018)
Cool World (1992)
Straight Talk (1992)
Lez Bomb (2018)
The Quitter (2014)
Stephanie Daley (2006)
Imaginary Heroes (2004)
Relative Evil (2001)
Murder in a Small Town (1999)
A Deadly Vision (1997)
What Happens in Vegas (2008)
American Loser (2007)
Winter Passing (2006)
Fearless (1993)
Pastime (1990)
Detours (2016)
A Dog Year (2009)
The Greatest (2009)
Daybreak (1993)
Falling from Grace (1992)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
State of Grace (1990)
In the Radiant City (2016)
Apartment Troubles (2014)
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
CrissCross (1992)
Stars & Bars (1988)
Secondhand Lions (2003)
Smoke (1995)
St. Vincent (2014)
Tin Men (1987)
Just Ask My Children (2001)
Being Flynn (2012)
Dragonfly (2002)
City of Angels (1998)
Leaving Normal (1992)
Brain Dead (1990)
Breast Men (1997)
