Deirdre O’Connell\u00a0(born December 30, 1951) is an\u00a0American\u00a0character actress. She began her career at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the\u00a0Boston Center for the Arts. She made her Broadway\u00a0debut in the 1986 revival of\u00a0The Front Page, and was nominated for the 1991\u00a0Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play\u00a0for her performance in the\u00a0off-Broadway\u00a0production\u00a0Love and Anger. She is the recipient of two\u00a0Drama-Logue Awards\u00a0and a\u00a0Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award\u00a0for her stage work in\u00a0Los Angeles. O’Connell made her screen debut in\u00a0Tin Men. Additional film credits include\u00a0State of Grace,\u00a0Straight Talk,\u00a0Leaving Normal, Fearless,\u00a0City of Angels,\u00a0Hearts in Atlantis,\u00a0Imaginary Heroes,\u00a0Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,\u00a0Wendy and Lucy, What Happens in Vegas,\u00a0Secondhand Lions, and\u00a0Synecdoche, New York. O’Connell’s first television credit was\u00a0Fernwood 2 Night\u00a0in 1977. She was a regular on\u00a0L.A. Doctors\u00a0and has made numerous guest appearances on series such as\u00a0Kate & Allie,\u00a0Chicago Hope,\u00a0Law & Order,\u00a0The Practice,\u00a0Six Feet Under, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and\u00a0Nurse Jackie. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deirdre O’Connell\u00a0(born December 30, 1951) is an\u00a0American\u00a0character actress. She began her career at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the\u00a0Boston Center for the Arts. She made her Broadway\u00a0debut in the 1986 revival of\u00a0The Front Page, and was nominated for the 1991\u00a0Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play\u00a0for her performance in the\u00a0off-Broadway\u00a0production\u00a0Love and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-26434","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n