Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand

Birthdate: 23rd June, 1957
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA



American film, stage and television actress Frances Louise McDormand began her career on stage and made her screen debut in the 1984 film Blood Simple having since appeared in several theatrical and television roles. McDormand has been recognized for her performances in Mississippi Burning, Almost Famous, and North Country and was nominated for four Golden Globes, four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and an Emmy award. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her role as Marge Gunderson in Fargo.  She also won Best Supporting Actress from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her performance in Wonder Boys (2000). McDormand returned to the stage in the David Lindsay-Abaire play Good People on Broadway from February 8, 2011 to April 24, 2011. McDormand has been married to director Joel Coen since 1984, they reside in New York City along with their adopted son Pedro. 
American film, stage and television actress Frances Louise
McDormand began her career on stage and made her screen debut in the 1984 film Blood
Simple having since appeared in several theatrical and television roles.

McDormand has been recognized for her performances in Mississippi
Burning, Almost Famous, and North Country and was nominated for four Golden
Globes, four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and an Emmy award. She won the
Academy Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her role as Marge Gunderson in
Fargo.  She also won Best Supporting
Actress from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics
Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her performance in
Wonder Boys (2000). McDormand returned to the stage in the David Lindsay-Abaire
play Good People on Broadway from February 8, 2011 to April 24, 2011.

McDormand has been married to director Joel Coen since 1984,
they reside in New York City along with their adopted son Pedro. ... More.Less.

Filmography

Women Talking (2022)

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. A group of women in an isolated Mennonite community grapple with reconciling their reality with...

Nomadland (2021)

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as...

The French Dispatch (2021)

The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs...

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a...

The Good Dinosaur (2015)

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Set in the 1960s, a pair of young lovers flee their New England island town, prompting a local search party led by the Sheriff (Willis)...

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still trying to get back to the Big Apple and their beloved Central Park zoo, but first they need to...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Transformers 3 is the working title for the third and final film in the live action Transformers series, directed by Michael Bay and...

Burn After Reading (2008)

With their overtly comedic follow-up BURN AFTER READING, the Coen Brothers return--about a third of the way--from the dark, dank...

Æon Flux (2005)

Something's Gotta Give (2003)

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

It's a matter of dispute whether the Coen brothers have ever made a bad film; you could argue that they've never even made an average...

Wonderboys (2000)

Michael Douglas plays Grady Tripp, a college professor who's going through a bit of a mid life crisis. He used to be a young star...

Almost Famous (2000)

There's famous, then there's normal (the greater, fame-adoring masses), and in between there's almost famous, which, also being the...

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