Frances McDormand

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Frances McDormand with the Screen Actors Guild Award (2015)

Frances Louise McDormand (* 23. June 1957 in Chicago , Illinois as Cynthia Ann Smith ) is an American actress . She has been married to director Joel Coen since 1984 and starred in many of the films he made with his brother Ethan . In 1997 she received the Oscar for best actress for her role in Fargo . As part of the Golden Globe Awards 2018 McDormand was for her role as Mildred Hayes in the film Three billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as best actress award. Also for this role, McDormand received her second Oscar for best leading actress at the 2018 Academy Awards .

Life

Frances McDormand is an adopted child and grew up with other adoptive siblings in a devout family belonging to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) . She completed her education with a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama .

With her first film Blood Simple (1984), the first film by the Coen brothers, she made her breakthrough in the role of the unfaithful wife. She then played a somewhat wacky neighbor in Arizona Junior (Raising Arizona , 1987), the mayor's secretary in Miller's Crossing (1990) and a cameo role as a stage actress in Barton Fink (1991) . She also had her greatest success so far with a film by the Coen brothers: In Fargo (1996) she played the heavily pregnant policewoman Marge Gunderson, who is supposed to solve three murders in a snow-covered American provincial nest. She has won numerous awards for her acting performance, including the Oscar for best actress . The brothers' films were followed by roles as the loveless wife of the main character in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), as the gym worker dreaming of cosmetic surgery in Burn After Reading (2008), for which she won a Golden Globe Nomination, and as a film editor in Hail, Caesar! (2016).

In addition, McDormand also showed herself to be a successful actress in films by other directors, such as B. Sam Raimi's Die Killer-Akademie (Crimewave , 1985) and Darkman (1990). She received other Oscar nominations for the intimidated wife of a police officer and Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988) by Alan Parker and as a worried mother in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000). She was part of the acclaimed ensemble in Robert Altman's film Short Cuts (1993) and starred as a psychologist in the court thriller Twilight (Primal Fear , 1996) and as the secret lover and supervisor of a college professor in The WonderBoys (Wonder Boys , 2000) by Curtis Hanson and as head of the family in Laurel Canyon (2003).

McDormand and Joel Coen live in New York City ; they adopted a child from Paraguay in 1994 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

British Academy Film Awards

Primetime Emmy Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

Tony Award

London Critics Circle Film Awards

  • 1997: Best Actress for Fargo

Chicago Film Critics Association

  • 1988: Best Supporting Actress for Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate
  • 1996: Best Actress for Fargo
  • 2000: Best Supporting Actress for Almost Famous

Chlotrudis Awards

  • 1997: Best Actress for Fargo
  • 2004: nominated for Best Actress for Laurel Canyon

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award

  • 1988: Best Supporting Actress for Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate

National Board of Review Award

  • 1988: Best Supporting Actress for Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate

Individual evidence


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