Deirdre O'Connell

Deirdre O'Connell

1951-12-30 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA 55 Credits

Biography

Deirdre O'Connell is an American character actress who has worked extensively on stage, screen, and television. O'Connell 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 Angele...

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Eddington

Eddington

2025

as Dawn

Acting

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten

2022

as Mary Laury

Acting

Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at fi...

The Requin

The Requin

2022

as Anne

4.8
Acting

A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to ...

I Am a Seagull

I Am a Seagull

2019

as Didi / Arkadina

Acting

Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" is interpreted by a handful of top-shelf stage actors from New York City as they converge in an upstate lakeside retreat...

Diane

Diane

2019

as Donna

6.2
Acting

Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her...

Lez Bomb

Lez Bomb

2018

as Rose Anderson

6.8
Acting

A closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming-out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male...

The Boy Downstairs

The Boy Downstairs

2018

as Amy

5.9
Acting

A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.

The Holdouts

The Holdouts

2017

as Annie

Acting

A comedy about New Yorkers who can’t afford to live in New York anymore

In the Radiant City

In the Radiant City

2016

7.1
Acting

A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 ...

Detours

Detours

2016

as Beth

5.8
Acting

A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a G...

St. Vincent

St. Vincent

2014

as Linda

7.1
Acting

A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

The Quitter

The Quitter

2014

as Kathleen Lembo

Acting

When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets tha...

Gabriel

Gabriel

2014

as Meredith

6.7
Acting

Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it all in a desperate and increasingly obsessive pur...

Being Flynn

Being Flynn

2012

as Frowzy Woman

6.2
Acting

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick w...

You Don't Know Jack

You Don't Know Jack

2010

as Linda

7.0
Acting

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009

as Donna Brady

6.2
Acting

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answer...

The Greatest

The Greatest

2009

as Joyce

6.2
Acting

Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, an...

Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

2008

as Deb (voice)

6.9
Acting

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

2008

as Ellen's Mother

7.6
Acting

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as ...

What Happens in Vegas

What Happens in Vegas

2008

as Mrs. Fuller

6.1
Acting

During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other ...

American Loser

American Loser

2007

as Cynthia

5.3
Acting

A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic ...

Stephanie Daley

Stephanie Daley

2007

as Jane

5.9
Acting

Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon aft...

Winter Passing

Winter Passing

2006

as Deirdre

6.1
Acting

Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive...

Imaginary Heroes

Imaginary Heroes

2004

as Marge Dwyer

6.5
Acting

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the f...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

as Hollis

8.1
Acting

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his me...

Secondhand Lions

Secondhand Lions

2003

as Helen

7.2
Acting

The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the b...

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

2002

as Gwyn

6.5
Acting

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis

2001

as Mrs. Gerber

6.8
Acting

A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.

Just Ask My Children

Just Ask My Children

2001

as Landry

6.5
Acting

Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.

Relative Evil

Relative Evil

2001

as Phyllis

5.8
Acting

Relative Evil (aka Ball in the House) - When JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab, he is greeted by a conniving family who are plotting to cas...

Just Looking

Just Looking

1999

as Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher

5.9
Acting

It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other pe...

Murder in a Small Town

Murder in a Small Town

1999

as Kate Faxton

5.2
Acting

A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the murder of a millionaire, who was the most despised ...

Breast Men

Breast Men

1997

as Lacey

5.3
Acting

We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, the...

A Deadly Vision

A Deadly Vision

1997

as Marilyn Middleton

4.5
Acting

A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.

Lifeform

Lifeform

1996

as Dr. Gracia Scott

5.3
Acting

When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" ...

Chasing the Dragon

Chasing the Dragon

1996

as Doris

5.5
Acting

Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.

Our Son, the Matchmaker

Our Son, the Matchmaker

1996

as Winona

6.3
Acting

As seen in flashback, this is the story of 43-year-old Julie a beautician who when 15 was forced by her mother to give up her baby for adoption. Her s...

Trial by Fire

Trial by Fire

1995

as Roberta

5.4
Acting

A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest.

Kansas

Kansas

1995

as Holly

5.0
Acting

When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to care for her ailing father, she rediscovers the joys ...

Smoke

Smoke

1995

as Sue the Waitress

7.2
Acting

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul t...

Fighting for My Daughter

Fighting for My Daughter

1995

as Peggy

2.0
Acting

Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.

Fearless

Fearless

1993

as Nan Gordon

6.9
Acting

After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike an...

Daybreak

Daybreak

1993

as Mom

5.1
Acting

When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no ...

Cool World

Cool World

1992

as Isabelle Malley

5.6
Acting

A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Jack Deebs, who's been drawing Cool World, crosses o...

CrissCross

CrissCross

1992

as Shelly

6.2
Acting

Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out ...

Leaving Normal

Leaving Normal

1992

as Ellen

6.2
Acting

Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the wa...

Straight Talk

Straight Talk

1992

as Lily

6.0
Acting

Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in ...

Falling from Grace

Falling from Grace

1992

as Sally Cutler

4.7
Acting

Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separat...

Pastime

Pastime

1990

as Inez Brice

5.7
Acting

A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.

State of Grace

State of Grace

1990

as Irene

7.0
Acting

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Iri...

Brain Dead

Brain Dead

1990

as Mrs. Halsey

5.7
Acting

In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illness, delves deep into his own mi...

Misplaced

1989

as Ella

Acting

The story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world.

Stars & Bars

Stars & Bars

1988

as Shanda Gage

4.4
Acting

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

Anna

Anna

1987

as Assistant #2

5.2
Acting

Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna fin...

Tin Men

Tin Men

1987

as Nellie

6.3
Acting

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.