Deirdre O'Connell
出生 : 1951-01-01,
略歴
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)
Anne
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.
Donna
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.
Rose Anderson
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.
Amy
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
Didi / Arkadina
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.
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.
Beth
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.
Linda
アルコールとギャンブルが大好きで、ちょっとクセのあるヴィンセント（ビル・マーレイ）は、隣家に引っ越してきたシングルマザーの12歳の息子、オリバー（ジェイデン・リーベラー）の世話をすることになる。酒場や競馬場へと連れ回し、ろくでもないことを教え込むヴィンセントに反発するオリバーだったが、嫌われオヤジに隠された真の優しさや心の傷に気付いてから、徐々に二人は心を通わせていき……。
Kathleen Lembo
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.
Meredith
Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it all in a desperate and increasingly obsessive pursuit.
Frowzy Woman
名優、ロバート・デ・ニーロが社会に反目するタクシードライバーを演じたドラマ。家庭を捨てホームレス同然の父・ジャナサンと偶然再会した息子・ニック。ふたりの再会は家族の絆と“血”のなせる業の激しい衝突を引き起こす。ポール・ワイツ監督作。
Linda
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Donna Brady
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?
Joyce
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.
Deb (voice)
Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.
Ellen's Mother
ケイデン・コタードはニューヨークに住む劇作家。平凡だった彼の日常は、ある日を境に変わっていく。 額を切って病院へ行けば、原因不明の病気と診断され、家族からは、自分が演出した自信満々の舞台をけなされる。 夫婦仲も上手くいかず、遂には愛する妻と娘に捨てられてしまう。新しい恋人を作ろうとするも、優柔不断で逃げられて…。 そんな失敗続きで、人生に嫌気がさしていた彼の元に、マッカーサー・フェロー賞(別名“天才賞”)を受賞した知らせが届く。 大金と名誉を手に入れた彼は、人生をやり直そうとそのすべてを注ぎ込んだ、一世一代のプロジェクトを実行する。 それは、自分の頭の中に思い描いた理想のニューヨークを本物のニューヨークの中にもう一つ作り、誰も見たことのない舞台を上演する事だった。
Mrs. Fuller
フィアンセにフラれたキャリアウーマン、ジョイは（キャメロン・ディアス）は親友とともにラスベガスへ。そこで意気投合したジャック（アシュトン・カッチャー）と、いつの間にか結婚してしまう。正気に戻った2人は結婚を無効にしようとするが、そんな中カジノで300万ドルを稼ぎ、互いに大金の所有権を主張することに……。
Jane
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.
Deirdre
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.
Marge Dwyer
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.
Hollis Mierzwiak
もうすぐヴァレンタインという季節。平凡な男ジョエルは、恋人クレメンタイン（クレム）と喧嘩をしてしまう。何とか仲直りしようとプレゼントを買って彼女の働く本屋に行くが、クレムは彼を知らないかのように扱い、目の前でほかの男といちゃつく始末。ジョエルはひどいショックを受ける。やがて彼はクレムが記憶を消す手術を受けたことを知る。苦しんだ末、ジョエルもクレムの記憶を消し去る手術を受けることを決心。手術を受けながら、ジョエルはクレムとの思い出をさまよい、やがて無意識下で手術に抵抗し始める。
Helen
1960年代初頭のテキサス。14歳のウォルターは、だらしない母親メイの勝手な都合で大伯父さんたちの家に預けられる。 祖母の兄弟であるハブとガースは40年間も消息を絶っていたが、最近になって出所不明の莫大な金を持って帰ってきたらしい。 メイは、2人の金の隠し場所をウォルターに突き止めさせ、あわよくば、子供も相続人もいない2人がウォルターを気に入って遺産を遺してくれることを期待していたのだ。 ウォルターはそんな強欲な母親に辟易しながらも仕方なく大伯父さんの家にとどまる。
Gwyn
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Landry
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.
Mrs. Gerber
50歳になるカメラマンのボビーは、少年時代の友人の葬式で故郷に戻ってきた。荒れ果てた生家を訪れたボビーの心に、忘れかけていた少年時代の日々が鮮やかに蘇る……。魂を揺さぶる奇蹟の感動作。
Phyllis
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
Mrs. Braverman, Lenny's Teacher
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."
Kate Faxton
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.
Lacey
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.
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.
Dr. Gracia Scott
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.
Doris
Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
Winona
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.
Roberta
A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest.
Holly
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.
Sue the Waitress
アメリカを代表する作家ポール・オースターが書き下ろした原作を基に、男たちの中に隠された哀しいロマンティシズムを描いた都会の物語。14年間毎朝同じ時刻に店の前で写真を撮り続けている煙草屋の店長オーギー、彼の馴染みの客で突然の事故により出産まもない妻を失って以来ペンを持てずにいる作家のポール、彼が車に跳ねられそうになった所を助けた黒人少年ラシードの3人を軸に、ブルックリンのとある煙草屋に集まる男達女達の日常を、過去と現在を、嘘と本当を巧みに交差させながら進んでゆく。
Peggy
Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
Nan Gordon
航空機墜落。地面に激突し真っ二つに引き裂かれた機体から、パニック状態の乗客たちを安全な場所へと導くひとりの男がいた。彼の名はマックス。妻と息子を持つごく普通の男性であったが、この事件をきっかけに、恐怖を超越、極度の苺アレルギーも一切なくなるなど、まさに別人に変わってしまう。
マスコミはまるで救世主のように書き立てた。そんな折、マックスは同じ事故で赤ん坊を死なせたカーラと接触。これを機に彼女は立ち直り始めるが、彼は妻と息子を拒絶するなど、どうしても元には戻れない。はたしてマックスはどうなってしまうのか…。
Mom
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.
Isabelle Malley
ラルフ・バクシによる、アニメと実写の合成作品。交通事故のはずみでアニメの世界・クールワールドに迷い込んだ主人公と、その世界の原作者であるもう一人の男。そしてその男が理想の女性像として描いた美女。この三人によって繰り広げられるファンタスティックなラブ・ストーリー。
Shelly
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.
Ellen
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.
Lily
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.
Sally Cutler
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).
Inez Brice
A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.
Irene
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.
Mrs. Halsey
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Ella
Shanda Gage
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Assistant #2
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.
Nellie
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
