Frances McDormand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Frances McDormand

American actress

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1957

Place of Birth: Gibson City, Illinois, United States

Profession: actor, character actor, stage actor, voice actor, television actor, film actor, producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Frances McDormand

  • Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith, June 23, 1957) is an American actress.
  • She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. McDormand was educated at Bethany College and Yale University.
  • She has starred in a number of films by the Coen brothers, including Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Fargo (1996), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), Burn After Reading (2008), and Hail, Caesar! (2016).
  • For playing Marge Gunderson in Fargo, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
  • Her other film roles include Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), and North Country (2005), all earning her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
  • In 2017, she starred as a hardened woman seeking justice for her daughter's murder in the crime-drama film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which won her a second Academy Award for Best Actress. McDormand made her Broadway debut in a 1984 revival of the drama Awake and Sing!, and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her acclaimed performance as Stella Kowalski in a 1988 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
  • She returned to Broadway in 2008 with a revival of The Country Girl, leading to a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
  • In 2011, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing a troubled single mother in Good People.
  • On television, McDormand played the titular protagonist in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014), which won her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

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