Deirdre O'Connell
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)
Known for
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Judge N. Owens
Law & Order
Jane Schuman
Law & Order
Valerie Knight
Law & Order
Joanna Wilder
The Closer
Liz Provenza
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Nina Lipton
Person of Interest
Joan
The Practice
Jenny Baldwin
Marvel's Daredevil
Anna Nelson
Chicago Hope
Ellen Wheeler
Madam Secretary
Audrey Stewart
Unforgettable
Sue Kelly
The Penguin
Francis Cobb
Nurse Jackie
Helen
The Beast in Me
Carol McGiddish
The Affair
Athena Bailey
Eddington
Dawn Bodkin
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hollis
The Better Sister
Debbie Macintosh
Stars in the House
Self - Winner
Smoke
Sue the Waitress
Outer Range
Patricia Tillerson
Dragonfly
Gwyn
From the Earth to the Moon
Barbara Young
Pastime
Inez Brice
Fearless
Nan Gordon
Cool World
Isabelle Malley
Synecdoche, New York
Ellen's Mother
Breast Men
Lacey
Just Ask My Children
Landry
Tin Men
Nellie
Relative Evil
Phyllis
Kansas
Holly
L.A. Doctors
Suzanne Blum
Stephanie Daley
Jane
Ghostwritten
Mary Laury
The Big Door Prize
Eloise Hubbard
State of Grace
Irene
The Greatest
Joyce
In the Radiant City
Lez Bomb
Rose Anderson
Winter Passing
Deirdre
Our Son, the Matchmaker
Winona
I Am a Seagull
Didi / Arkadina
Sirens
Heidi Schiller
A Dog Year
Donna Brady
Wendy and Lucy
Deb (voice)
Second Noah
Shirley Crockmeyer
Lifeform
Dr. Gracia Scott
What Happens in Vegas
Mrs. Fuller
St. Vincent
Linda
The Quitter
Kathleen Lembo
Anna
Assistant #2
Secondhand Lions
Helen
The Requin
Anne
Detours
Beth
Just Looking
Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
Hearts in Atlantis
Mrs. Gerber
Daybreak
Mom
CrissCross
Shelly
Being Flynn
Frowzy Woman
Brain Dead
Mrs. Halsey
Straight Talk
Lily
You Don't Know Jack
Linda
Diane
Donna
Leaving Normal
Ellen
Imaginary Heroes
Marge Dwyer
Trial by Fire
Roberta
Made in Eddington
Self
Gabriel
Meredith
American Loser
Cynthia
The Boy Downstairs
Amy
Murder in a Small Town
Kate Faxton
A Deadly Vision
Marilyn Middleton
Falling from Grace
Sally Cutler
Stars & Bars
Shanda Gage
Fighting for My Daughter
Peggy
Chasing the Dragon
Doris
The Holdouts
Annie
Misplaced
Ella