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NAME:
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Frances McDormand |
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PROFILE:
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Name: Frances McDormand
Height: 5' 6"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: June 23, 1957
Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Profession: actress
Education: Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia (B.A. in Theater, 1979)
Yale University School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut (M.F.A., 1982)
Husband/Wife: Joel Coen (director, producer, screenwriter; born on November 29, 1954; married in 1984)
Father: Vernon McDormand (a Disciples of Christ minister)
Mother: Noreen McDormand (a housewife)
Sister in law: Tricia Cooke (film editor)
Son: Pedro McDormand Coen (adopted; born on November 1994)
Claim to fame: played Marge Gunderson from her 1996 film Fargo
Contact: Click here
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- Believes most female-oriented movies rely on girly cliches, and they should be better written. (2003)
- Insists she doesn't need awards to fuel her ego or her self-esteem, because she's already proud of her achievements. (2001)
- Sometimes credited as Francis McDorman or Fran McDormand.
- Nickname: Fran
- Once lived in an apartment with Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel and Holly Hunter
- Was the third and youngest child adopted by her minister father Vernon and his wife, Noreen.
- Raised in Monessen, Pennsylvania.
- Sister-in-law of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
- Has one adopted son, Pedro McDormand Coen. (1999)
- Both of her parents were born in Canada. Her father, Vernon McDormand, was a Disciples of Christ minister and her mother, Noreen McDormand, a housewife.
- Was jury president of Berlin film festival 2004.
- Her Oscar-winning role, as Marge Gunderson from her 1996 film FARGO (1996), was ranked #33 in the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
- Nominated for Broadway's 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
- Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at Academy Awards for ALMOST FAMOUS (2001)
- Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at Academy Awards for MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1989)
- MORE FRANCES MCDORMAND TRIVIA
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