Deirdre O'Connell
Also Known As: Deidre O'Connell, Dierdre O'Connell, ديردري أوكونيل
Biography: 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)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 30, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Female
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Overview: 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 memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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State of Grace
Overview: 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 Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Leaving Normal
Overview: 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 way, she meets Marianne, an impulsive young woman leaving an abusive relationship. The two hit the road together and keep driving north, bonding over the hardships that they have endured and meeting a number of eccentric characters as they get closer to their destination.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-29
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Pastime
Overview: A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-08
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Stars & Bars
Overview: A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-18
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Misplaced
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-14
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Anna
Overview: 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 finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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Falling from Grace
Overview: Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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Smoke
Overview: 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 tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Fearless
Overview: 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 and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is wracked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-15
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Stephanie Daley
Overview: 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 afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-20
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Imaginary Heroes
Overview: Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-14
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The Greatest
Overview: 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, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Cool World
Overview: 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 over as well. He sets his lustful sights on animated femme fatale Holli Would, but she's got plans of her own to become real, and it's up to Frank to stop her.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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Straight Talk
Overview: Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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Breast Men
Overview: We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, they split up and follow different paths. One becomes the surgeon of the everyday woman while the other's career freefalls and has to settle with strippers and actresses. The film covers their history and their inventions, from the sixties until today.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-13
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Lifeform
Overview: 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" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to examine its surroundings and shows an interest in humans including a soft caress of a female scientist prior to the Army killing it. This only enrages its sibling.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-24
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American Loser
Overview: A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-14
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Our Son, the Matchmaker
Overview: 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 son, now 28, a minister, with his wife expecting, begins to search for his biological mother to find out his family medical history. She hears of his search and reunites.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-08
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Gabriel
Overview: Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it all in a desperate and increasingly obsessive pursuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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In the Radiant City
Overview: 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 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Just Looking
Overview: 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 people do it. Easier said than done. Caught in the act of spying, his mother and stepfather ship him off to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in "the country" -- Queens. His plan looks like a bust and his summer seems destined for boredom, until he meets a whole new group of friends -- young teens who have a "sex club."
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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Daybreak
Overview: When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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Ghostwritten
Overview: 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 first. The discovery of a lost manuscript and its possible ties to a longstanding local murder case, however, throw into question the intentions of everyone around him.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-19
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Eddington
Overview: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-07-16
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The Holdouts
Overview: A comedy about New Yorkers who can’t afford to live in New York anymore
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-29
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Synecdoche, New York
Overview: 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 part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Hearts in Atlantis
Overview: A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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Detours
Overview: 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 GPS with a mind of its own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Trial by Fire
Overview: A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-01
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You Don't Know Jack
Overview: Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-27
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Dragonfly
Overview: A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Mystery Horror Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Winter Passing
Overview: 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 novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-07
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St. Vincent
Overview: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Just Ask My Children
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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Murder in a Small Town
Overview: 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 man in town.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-10
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The Boy Downstairs
Overview: A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-16
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Kansas
Overview: 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 and hardships of farm life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-27
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Secondhand Lions
Overview: The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Diane
Overview: 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 life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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The Quitter
Overview: 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 than how he handled his baseball career.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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A Deadly Vision
Overview: A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-21
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Lez Bomb
Overview: 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 roommate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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Relative Evil
Overview: 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 cash in on a life insurance policy before his 18th birthday
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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What Happens in Vegas
Overview: 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 after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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CrissCross
Overview: 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 about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-08
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Being Flynn
Overview: 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 wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Chasing the Dragon
Overview: Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-19
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Tin Men
Overview: A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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Brain Dead
Overview: 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 mind to save himself from a megalomaniacal corporation.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-16
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I Am a Seagull
Overview: 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. Surrounded by a menagerie of paper lanterns, circus tents, ten-foot tall puppets and floating furniture, the players merge with the reckless choices of their characters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-04
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A Dog Year
Overview: 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 answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-03
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Wendy and Lucy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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The Requin
Overview: 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 fight the elements, while sharks circle below.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Fighting for My Daughter
Overview: Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-09
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