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Deirdre O'Connell

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Biography

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)

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Synecdoche, New York

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Cool World

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Penguin

As Francis Cobb

Eddington

As Dawn Bodkin

What Happens in Vegas

As Mrs. Fuller

Dragonfly

As Gwyn

Smoke

As Sue the Waitress

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux

From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.

7 films

The Hypnotic Gaze

From Woody Allen's comic hypnosis to the chilling mechanics of control, this chain traces cinema's fascination with the mind's susceptibility.

8 films

When Worlds Collide: The Magic of Live-Action Animation

From Disney's pioneering blend to modern masterpieces, explore films that seamlessly merge reality and animation, celebrating the creative spark when two worlds...

8 films

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