Deirdre O'connell

Deirdre O'Connell is an American character actress with a long career on stage and screen. She started out at Stage One, an experimental theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts. Deirdre O'Connell has a nude scene in the film Crisscross. She was born on December 30, 1951, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her Broadway debut came in the 1986 revival of The Front Page. Off-Broadway, her work in Love and Anger earned her a 1991 Drama Desk nomination. Her first film was Tin Men, followed by State of Grace, Hearts in Atlantis and Synecdoche, New York. On television she was a regular on L.A. Doctors and appeared on Six Feet Under and Nurse Jackie. She also won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage work.