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Doctor Used Other Physicians' Names To Perform Nip/Tucks On Insurance ... - LA Weekly (blog)
Doctor Used Other Physicians' Names To Perform Nip/Tucks On Insurance ... LA Weekly (blog) (If only Frances McDormand's plastic-surgery-chasing character in Burn After Reading knew about this guy). Saks faces a possible 166 years in federal prison ... |
Acting Race Narrows, Except in One Category - Awards Daily (blog)
 Awards Daily (blog) | Acting Race Narrows, Except in One Category Awards Daily (blog) ... also precedent for an actress who didn't win either category at the Globes winning the SAG, then winning the Oscar (Susan Sarandon, Frances McDormand). ... |
[Fill in the blank] stars in 'Oak Tree' - Los Angeles Times
[Fill in the blank] stars in 'Oak Tree' Los Angeles Times "Oak Tree" involves a rotating cast of celebrities -- other productions have featured Geoffrey Rush, Mike Myers, David Hyde Pierce and Frances McDormand in ... |
Maura Tierney Joins Bicoastal Play - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Maura Tierney Joins Bicoastal Play Seattle Post Intelligencer Tierney will star alongside Frances McDormand and Wooster Group actors Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd and Koosil-ja Hwang, in the production, ... Former 'ER' Star Maura Tierney Headed To The Theater |
Wooster Group's North Atlantic, With Tierney, McDormand and More, to Play NYC - Playbill.com
Wooster Group's North Atlantic, With Tierney, McDormand and More, to Play NYC Playbill.com It will feature Steve Cuiffo, Ari Fliakos, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Frances McDormand, Zachary Oberzan, Jenny Seastone Stern, Scott Shepherd, ... |
Blake Lively to Turn On the Green Lantern - New York Magazine
 New York Magazine | Blake Lively to Turn On the Green Lantern New York Magazine [The Playlist] Memories: Frances McDormand and Maura Tierney are going to appear together in the Wooster Group's incarnation of North Atlantic. ... |
Whiteout (Blu-ray) - DVD Talk
Whiteout (Blu-ray) DVD Talk Ms. Beckinsale spends the rest of the movie bundled up under eight inches of jackets and parkas, looking more like Frances McDormand in Fargo than the ... Whiteout (Blu-ray) Digital Copy Special Edition |
Getty Drive-in Theater hosts frigid 'Fargo' at Margie's Fish & Chipper Festival - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
 The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com | Getty Drive-in Theater hosts frigid 'Fargo' at Margie's Fish & Chipper Festival The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com HandoutThe brave sheriff: Frances McDormand won an Academy Award for her portrayal of the pregnant police chief, Marge Gunderson, in ?Fargo. ... |
Play a few notes - Winnipeg Free Press
Play a few notes Winnipeg Free Press ... I sold the following wine (albeit a different vintage) to Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) and her husband (Oscar-winning writer/director ... |
Fred Melamed, Actor - Gothamist
 Gothamist | Fred Melamed, Actor Gothamist I had gone to drama school with Frances McDormand, who is Joel's wife, and John Turturro and his wife Katherine Borowitz, whom they've used several times in ... |
Frances McDormand Biography
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Frances McDormand
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| Frances McDormand | |
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 On the set of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day in May 2007 |
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| Born | Frances Louise McDormand June 23, 1957 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse(s) | Joel Coen (1984–present) |
Frances Louise McDormand1 (born June 23, 1957) is an American film, stage, and television actress, well known for her role as Marge Gunderson in Fargo, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1996.
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Early life
Frances was born in Chicago, Illinois and was adopted by the McDormands, a Canadian couple: Noreen, a registered nurse and receptionist, and Vernon, a Disciples of Christ pastor. Frances has said that her biological mother may have been one of the parishioners at Vernon's church.2 McDormand has a sister, Dorothy A. McDormand, who is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and chaplain,3 as well as two other siblings, all of whom were adopted by the McDormands, who had no biological children. As her father specialized in restoring congregations,2 he frequently moved their family, and they lived in several small towns in Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee,4 before settling in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area town of Monessen, where she graduated from high school in 1975. She attended Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, and earned a B.A. in Theater in 1979.
In 1982, McDormand earned an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Drama. She was roommates with Holly Hunter at the time. Her first professional acting job was in Trinidad and Tobago, performing in a play written by poet Derek Walcott and funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
Career
McDormand's film debut was in Joel and Ethan Coen's first film, 1984's Blood Simple. In 1985, McDormand, the Coen brothers, Holly Hunter, and director Sam Raimi shared a house in the Bronx. In 1987 she appeared as the wacky neighbor Dot in the hit film Raising Arizona starring Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage.
In addition to her early film roles, McDormand played Connie Chapman in the fifth season of the television police drama Hill Street Blues. In 1988, she played Stella Kowalski in a stage production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Frances McDormand is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.
McDormand appeared in several theatrical and television roles during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. She has gained renown and critical acclaim for her dramatic work, and is a respected actress, having been nominated for Academy Awards four times. In 1988, she was nominated for a Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mississippi Burning; in 1996, she won the Academy award for Best Actress for her performance as police chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo; in 2000, she earned her second nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of a concerned mother in Almost Famous. Also for Almost Famous, she won the Best Supporting Actress nod from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, San Diego Film Critics Society, Southeastern Film Critics Association, and the Florida Film Critics Circle. For her role in Wonder Boys (2000), she won Best Supporting Actress from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
In 2006, McDormand received her third Best Supporting Actress nod for her performance in 2005's North Country, although she lost to Rachel Weisz. She also had a role in the film Friends with Money, a dark comedy co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack, and directed by Nicole Holofcener. She recently received an Independent Spirit Award for her role in Friends with Money. She also voiced the role of the lady principal Melanie Upfoot in the Simpsons episode Girls Just Want to Have Sums, which aired on April 30, 2006. McDormand has recently starred in the films Burn After Reading and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
Personal life
McDormand has been married to director Joel Coen since 1984, and the two adopted a son from Paraguay, Pedro McDormand Coen, in 1994. They live in New York City. McDormand has starred in six of the Coen Brothers films, including a minor appearance in Miller's Crossing, a secondary role in Raising Arizona and lead roles in Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, Fargo, for which she won an Academy Award, and more recently Burn After Reading. Additionally, she contributed an uncredited offscreen (voice only) appearance to the opening scene in the Coens' Barton Fink.
Frances McDormand also participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18.5
Filmography
References
- ^ Crowe, Cameron. Frances McDormand interview. Interview. October 2000. FindArticles.com. 25 December 2007.
- ^ a b Naked ambition. theage.com.au. 25 October 2003.
- ^ Disciples "PK" wins best actress' award. Disciples News Service Release. 31 March 2007.
- ^ I'd love to play a psycho killer. film.guardian.co.uk. 26 January 2001.
- ^ NYICFF Jury
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Frances McDormand |
- Official Frances McDormand Fansite
- Frances McDormand at the Internet Movie Database
- Frances McDormand at the Internet Broadway Database
- Frances McDormand at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Frances McDormand at TV.com
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