Deirdre O'Connell
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 herBroadway 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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.433 |
Birthday | 1951-01-01 |
Place of Birth | |
Also Known As | Deidre O'Connell, Dierdre O'Connell, |
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8.1/14803
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...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1990
State of Grace
6.941/332
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...
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State of Grace
1988
Stars & Bars
4.4/19
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
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Stars & Bars
1987
Anna
5.6/12
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...
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Anna
1989
Misplaced
0/0
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.
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Misplaced
1990
Pastime
5.7/3
A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.
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Pastime
1992
Falling from Grace
4.7/11
Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separat...
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Falling from Grace
1992
Leaving Normal
6.2/24
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...
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Leaving Normal
1995
Smoke
7.187/477
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...
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Smoke
1993
Fearless
6.9/308
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...
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Fearless
2007
Stephanie Daley
5.8/27
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...
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Stephanie Daley
2004
Imaginary Heroes
6.495/107
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...
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Imaginary Heroes
2009
The Greatest
6.2/152
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...
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The Greatest
1992
Cool World
5.605/723
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...
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Cool World
1992
Straight Talk
6/69
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in...
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Straight Talk
1997
Breast Men
5.3/64
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...
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Breast Men
1996
Lifeform
5/15
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"...
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Lifeform
2007
American Loser
5.2/46
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic...
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American Loser
1996
Our Son, the Matchmaker
6.3/3
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...
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Our Son, the Matchmaker
2014
Gabriel
6.9/29
Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it all in a desperate and increasingly obsessive pur...
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Gabriel
2016
In the Radiant City
7.3/8
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...
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In the Radiant City
1999
Just Looking
6/20
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...
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Just Looking
1993
Daybreak
5.2/28
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no...
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Daybreak
2022
Ghostwritten
0/0
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...
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Ghostwritten
Eddington
0/0
Follows a small-town New Mexico sheriff with higher aspirations.
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Eddington
2017
The Holdouts
0/0
A comedy about New Yorkers who can’t afford to live in New York anymore
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The Holdouts
2008
Synecdoche, New York
7.6/1390
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...
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Synecdoche, New York
2001
Hearts in Atlantis
6.742/538
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
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Hearts in Atlantis
2016
Detours
5/3
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...
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Detours
1995
Trial by Fire
5.8/5
A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest.
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Trial by Fire
2010
You Don't Know Jack
7.06/377
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
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You Don't Know Jack
2002
Dragonfly
6.54/847
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
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Dragonfly
2006
Winter Passing
6.2/110
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...
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Winter Passing
2014
St. Vincent
7.114/1867
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
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St. Vincent
2001
Just Ask My Children
6.5/12
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.
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Just Ask My Children
1999
Murder in a Small Town
5.2/6
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...
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Murder in a Small Town
2018
The Boy Downstairs
5.8/29
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
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The Boy Downstairs
1995
Kansas
5/3
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...
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Kansas
2003
Secondhand Lions
7.2/751
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...
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Secondhand Lions
2019
Diane
6.2/35
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...
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Diane
2014
The Quitter
0/0
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...
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The Quitter
1997
A Deadly Vision
4.5/4
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.
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A Deadly Vision
2018
Lez Bomb
7/45
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...
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Lez Bomb
2001
Relative Evil
5.8/6
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...
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Relative Evil
2008
What Happens in Vegas
6.091/3020
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...
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What Happens in Vegas
1992
CrissCross
6.3/39
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...
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CrissCross
2012
Being Flynn
6.1/251
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...
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Being Flynn
1996
Chasing the Dragon
5.5/2
Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
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Chasing the Dragon
1987
Tin Men
6.3/121
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Tin Men
1990
Brain Dead
5.7/112
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...
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Brain Dead
2019
I Am a Seagull
0/0
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...
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I Am a Seagull
2009
A Dog Year
6.2/73
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...
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A Dog Year
2008
Wendy and Lucy
6.858/321
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.
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Wendy and Lucy
2022
The Requin
4.8/330
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...
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The Requin
1995
Fighting for My Daughter
2/1
Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
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