Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand was born in Gibson City, Illinois, United States on June 23rd, 1957 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 66, Frances McDormand biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith, 1956) is an American actress.
She has been nominated for numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, making her one of the few female performers to win the Triple Crown of Acting. McDormand was educated at Bethany College and Yale University.
She has appeared in several Coen brothers films, including Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Fargo (1996), Burn After Reading (2008), and Caesar's Hail. (2016).
She received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Marge Gunderson in Fargo.
Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), and North Country (2005), among other actresses nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2017, she appeared as a hardened woman seeking revenge for her daughter's murder in the crime-drama film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which earned her her second Academy Award for Best Actress. McDormand made her Broadway debut in 1984 on Awake and Sing!, and received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her legendary role as Stella Kowalski in 1988's revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
She returned to Broadway in 2008 as part of The Country Girl's revival, earning her a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
In 2011, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing a struggling single mother in Good People.
McDormand played the titular protagonist in HBO's Olive Kitteridge (2014), which earned her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
Early life
Cynthia Ann Smith was born in Gibson City, Illinois, on June 23, 1957. Nomineen (Nickelson) and Vernon McDormand were adopted at one and a half years old, and Frances Louise McDormand was renamed Frances Louise McDormand. When her adoptive mother was a Disciples of Christ minister, she was a nurse and receptionist, while her adoptive father was a Disciples of Christ minister; both were originally from Canada. McDormand has reported that her biological mother, who has proudly referred to herself as "white garbage," may have been one of the parishioners at Vernon's cathedral. Dorothy A. Davidson has a sister. "Dot" McDormand, a licensed Disciples of Christ minister and chaplain, as well as Kenneth's brother, Kenneth, were all adopted by the McDormands, who had no biological children.
Since McDormand's father was specialized in rebuilding congregations, he and his family used to move around Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, before settling in Monessen, Pennsylvania, where McDormand graduated from Monessen High School in 1975. She studied at Bethany College in West Virginia, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre in 1979. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale School of Drama in 1982. When living in New York City, she was a roommate of actress Holly Hunter.
Personal life
Since 1984, McDormand has been married to director Joel Coen. Pedro McDormand Coen, a six-month-old boy from Paraguay, was adopted by the couple in 1995 when he was six months old.
Career
McDormand's first professional appearance appeared in Derek Walcott's play In a Fine Castle, also known as The Last Carnival, was supported by the MacArthur Foundation and appeared in Trinidad. She made her film debut in Blood Simple, Joel Coen's first film and brother-in-law Ethan Coen's first film. McDormand appeared in Sam Raimi's Crimewave in 1985, as well as a Hunter episode. In 1987, she appeared as Dot, the eccentric friend of Raising Arizona, starring Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage. McDormand appeared in a 1986 episode of The Twilight Zone, in addition to her early film roles. Stella Kowalski appeared in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, an actor who was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1988. McDormand is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. "The game and talented" McDormand appeared in the Wooster Group's production of "exciting dissection" of Racine's tragedy "the Birdie! at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, 2002.
McDormand's initial appearances in several television and television roles during the 1980s, she has since gained renown and critical acclaim for her dramatic film work. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Mississippi Burning (1989). McDormand is one of the few actors to be lauded, with Sheila Benson's review for the Los Angeles Times stating, "Hackman's mastery hits a high here, but McDormand soars right with him." And since she is the film's sole voice of morality, it's appropriate that she be so popular."
McDormand co-starred alongside Liam Neeson in 1990. On the TV show At the Movies, the film was a critical and commercial success, with film commentators Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert giving the film "two thumbs up." She appeared in the Coen brothers' Crossing and starred in the political thriller Hidden Agenda with Brian Cox, which was met with further critical attention and was named Jury Prize at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. McDormand appeared alongside Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels in The Butcher's Wife in the romantic comedy The Butcher's Wife in the following year. Holly Hunter and Gena Rowlands co-starred in the television film Crazy in Love in 1992. McDormand co-starred in Robert Altman's ensemble film Short Cuts, based on Raymond Carver's stories in 1993. The film was critically acclaimed, with the cast receiving a special Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble at the 50th Venice International Film Festival, as well as a a Special Ensemble Award at the 51st Golden Globe Awards.
McDormand starred as pregnant police Chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo, which Coen brothers wrote and directed. She received acclaim for her role in a Leading Role, as well as the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Fargo was described by Roger Ebert as "one of the finest films I've ever seen" and added that McDormand "should have a shot at an Academy Award nomination with this appearance, which is true in every individual case, but also in terms of cumulative effect." Marge Gunderson, as portrayed by McDormand in 2003, was rated as the 33rd greatest screen hero in AFI's 100 Years, Villains' 100 Heroes & Villains. McDormand appeared in Edward Norton's psychiatrist Dr. Molly Arrington in the legal thriller Primal Fear in 1996, and he appeared with Chris Cooper in the neo-Western mystery film Lone Star.
McDormand received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Television Film in 1997 for her role as Gus in the television show Hidden in America (1996). In Bruce Beresford's war drama Paradise Road, she co-starred with Glenn Close that year. McDormand played Miss Clara Clavel, a stern but loving nun, in the family film Madeline in 1998.
In 2001, McDormand was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actress for her role as an overbearing mother in Almost Famous. She received the Best Supporting Actress award from the Florida Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her role in Wonder Boys (2000). She received the Broadcast Film Critics Association award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in both films. In the Coen Brothers' film noir The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), McDormand appeared as Billy Bob Thornton's wife Doris Crane. Jane was a member of City by the Sea in 2002 and a free-spirited record producer Jane in Laurel Canyon, earning her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female. Diane Keaton appeared in Nothing's Gotta Gives the following year. McDormand co-starred in the true life drama North Country in 2005, earning her Academy Award, BAFTA Certificate, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actor Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared alongside Theron in the science fiction action film On Flux, the same year.
McDormand received an Independent Spirit Award in 2007 for her support role in Nicole Holofcener's dark comedy Friends with Money (2006). In The Simpsons episode "Girls Just Want Sums," which aired on April 30, 2006. She also played the role of the principal Melanie Upfoot. McDormand performed in the romantic comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day as governor Guinevere Pettigrew and the dark comedy Burn After Reading, which received her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in 2008.
She appeared in This Must Be The Place in 2011 alongside Sean Penn, Burning After Reading co-star John Malkovich in Transformers: Burning of the Moon, portraying the US government's National Intelligence Director. In a limited engagement on Broadway from February 8, 2011, she returned to the stage in the David Lindsay-Abaire play Good People. Her performance earned her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. McDormand ne regretted rien in the animated film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012). She appeared in Wes Anderson's ensemble film Moonrise Kingdom, as well as Matt Damon in Promised Land in the same year.
HBO co-produced and starring McDormand in November 2014, based on a series of short stories by Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, co-produced by and starring McDormand. She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, as well as the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film. McDormand became the twelfth actress in history to receive the "Triple Crown of Acting" for competitive Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award winners in acting categories with her Emmy Award. McDormand has been named in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as a co-producer on Olive Kitteridge. In the Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur, McDormand portrayed Momma Ida in 2015.
Mildred Hayes, a grieving mother who rents three roadside billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder, appeared in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in 2017. Her performance in a Leading Role drew worldwide notice, and she received her second Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. She gained a lot of media attention during the time of the Time's Up and Down movements during the year's awards season.
In Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs, McDormand portrayed Interpreter Nelson. In the six-episode Amazon/BBC Studios series Good Omens, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant, she appeared God.
McDormand produced and appeared in Chloé Zhao's Nomadland, playing Fern, a nomad in the American West, in 2020. McDormand received international acclaim for her performance, earning her third Academy Award for Best Actress and her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress, as well as receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. McDormand was also a winner of the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture as a producer on the film. She earned her third award in the acting category in history as producer and performer for the same film, becoming the second woman in history to win Best Actress three times and the seventh performer overall to win three competitive Academy Awards in acting categories. In 2021, McDormand's The Tragedy of Macbeth and Lucinda Krementz in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch earned more critical praise for her appearances as Lady Macbeth in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth and Lucinda Krementz.
