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Frances McDormandAdd to My CelebsAge 54 Birthday Jun. 23rd, 1957 Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA Height 5' 5" |
Frances McDormand's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2008 - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day2008 - Burn After Reading 2006 - Friends With Money 2005 - North Country 2005 - Aeon Flux 2003 - Something's Gotta Give 2002 - City By The Sea 2001 - The Man Who Wasn't There 2000 - Wonder Boys 2000 - Almost Famous 1998 - Madeline 1996 - Primal Fear 1996 - Fargo 1996 - Lone Star 1995 - Beyond Rangoon 1993 - Short Cuts 1991 - Barton Fink 1991 - The Butcher's Wife 1990 - Miller's Crossing 1990 - Darkman 1990 - Hidden Agenda 1989 - Mississippi Burning 1987 - Raising Arizona 1986 - Crimewave 1984 - Blood Simple |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
Frances McDormand was born in Chicago in 1957, and was adopted by Canadian minister Vernan McDormand and his wife Noreen, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She earned her B.A. in Theater from Bethany College in 1979 and her MFA from Yale in 1982.
Her career after graduation began onstage, and she has retained her association with the theater throughout her career. She soon obtained prominent roles in movies as well, first starring in Blood Simple. (1984), in which she worked with filmmaker Joel Coen, whom she married that year. She frequently collaborated with Coen and his brother Ethan Coen in their films.
McDormand's skilled and versatile acting has been recognized by both the critics and the Academy and, in addition to many critics' awards, she has been nominated for an Academy award four times - for Mississippi Burning (1988), Fargo (1996) (for which she won the Best Actress award), Almost Famous (2000) and North Country (2005).
Keenly intelligent and possessed of a sharp wit, McDormand is the antithesis of the Hollywood starlet - rather than making every role about Frances McDormand, Frances McDormand dissolves into the characters she plays. Accordingly, she has expressed some reservations about the iconic recognition she has gained from her touching and amusing portrayal of Police Chief Marge Gunderson, the quintessential Minnesota Scandinavian, in Fargo (1996).
McDormand and Coen adopted a son, Pedro, who was born in Paraguay, in 1994. They live in Manhattan.
TRIVIA:
- Once lived in an apartment with 'Joel Coen' (qv), 'Ethan Coen' (qv), 'Sam Raimi' (qv), 'Scott Spiegel' (qv) and 'Holly Hunter' (qv)
- She attended Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia and received her B.A. in Theater, 1979. Then she attended Yale University School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut and received her M.F.A., 1982.
- Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2006 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film _Ĉon Flux (2005)_ (qv). However, she failed to receive a nomination. (Had she gotten the nomination, she would have been one of the few to be nominated for both Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars, for _North Country (2005)_ (qv), and Worst Supporting Actress at the Razzies in the same year.)
- Raised in Monessen, Pennsylvania.
- Sister-in-law of 'Ethan Coen' (qv) and 'Tricia Cooke (I)' (qv).
- Was jury president of Berlin film festival 2004.
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of 'Tennessee Williams' (qv)' "A Streetcar Named Desire."
- Her Oscar-winning role, as Marge Gunderson from her 1996 film _Fargo (1996)_ (qv), was ranked #33 in the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
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