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By Irish America Staff
The creative community suffered a grievous loss when actor,
drama teacher, artistic director and founder of the Focus Theatre in Dublin,
Deirdre O’Connell, died at her home in Dublin on June 9.
Born to Irish immigrants – her mother was from Cork, her father from Sligo – in the Bronx, New York in 1939, Deirdre was encouraged by her parents in her desire to act from an early age. Her career began when she won a scholarship to Erwin Piscator’s New York Dramatic Workshop and moved into a flat with Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand. While studying in the Actors’ Studio she was taught by Lee Strasberg and Allen Miller and was a classmate of Marilyn Monroe.