Personal details
Born:
- Birthday: 1957-06-23
- Born Place: Gibson City, Illinois, USA
Also Known As:
Frances Louise McDormand, 프란시스 맥도맨드, Cynthia Ann Smith, فرانسیس مک دورمند, فرانسیس مکدورمند
Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand is one of the most highly-decorated and critically acclaimed American actresses of her generation, renowned for her distinctive, powerful, and often unglamorous performances, particularly in independent cinema. Born Frances Louise McDormand on June 23, 1957, she earned her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama in 1982. Her career breakthrough came with her film debut in 1984 in the neo-noir thriller Blood Simple, the first feature film directed by her future husband, Joel Coen, and his brother, Ethan Coen. McDormand has achieved the prestigious "Triple Crown of Acting," having won competitive Academy Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress three times: for her iconic role as the pregnant, folksy police chief Marge Gunderson in the Coen brothers' film Fargo (1996), for playing the grieving, vengeful mother Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and for her portrayal of the widowed nomad Fern in Nomadland (2020). For Nomadland, she also won the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer, making her the first person to win Oscars for both producing and acting on the same film. Her celebrated career includes numerous notable roles: the overbearing mother Elaine Miller in Almost Famous (2000), Glory in North Country (2005), Linda Litzke in Burn After Reading (2008), and the voice of the relentless Animal Control officer Captain Chantel DuBois in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012). On television, she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for starring in and executive producing the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014). She is an associate member of The Wooster Group experimental theater company and won a Tony Award in 2011 for her role in the play Good People.
