1. Frances Hardman Conroy was born on March 15,1953 and is an American retired actress.
25 Facts About Frances Conroy
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Frances Conroy is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under, for which she won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and received four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
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Frances Conroy is known for playing the older version of Moira O'Hara in season one of the television anthology series American Horror Story, which garnered Conroy her first Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television nomination, and as well a Primetime Emmy Awards nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
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Frances Conroy starred as Dawn in the first season of the Hulu original series Casual, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for its first season.
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Frances Conroy was born March 15,1953, in Monroe, Georgia, the daughter of Ossie Hardman and Vincent Paul Frances Conroy.
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Frances Conroy's father, who was of Irish descent, was a business executive, and her mother worked in business.
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Frances Conroy moved to New York City to study drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Juilliard School.
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Frances Conroy was a member of Juilliard's Drama Division Group 6 which included Kevin Conroy, Kelsey Grammer, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Robin Williams.
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Frances Conroy returned to the Delacorte in the summer of 1998 as, Mrs Antrobus in Thorton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.
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Frances Conroy focused primarily on her stage career for the next two decades, appearing in such productions as Our Town, The Little Foxes, and The Ride Down Mt.
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Frances Conroy had a small role in the 1984 movie Falling in Love, as a waitress in a swanky restaurant.
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Frances Conroy is best known for her critically acclaimed work on HBO's original drama series Six Feet Under, which she starred in from 2001 until the series' end in 2005, playing the volatile family matriarch Ruth Fisher.
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Frances Conroy was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series awards, without winning.
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In 2010, Frances Conroy played Madylyn, the wife of Robert De Niro's character Jack Mabrey, in the John Curran thriller Stone.
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Frances Conroy was one of two actresses, the other being Alexandra Breckenridge, playing a woman named Moira O'Hara.
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Frances Conroy was once more cast for American Horror Story's third season during this time, Coven, being promoted to series regular, playing Myrtle Snow, a member of the Witches Council in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Frances Conroy was nominated for a sixth Primetime Emmy Award and her second nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
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Frances Conroy later returned in the 2016 season, Roanoke, portraying an actress in the re-enactment portion of the season.
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In July 2017, it was announced via Twitter that Frances Conroy would appear in American Horror Story: Cult, marking her sixth appearance on the show.
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In 2018, Frances Conroy reprised her respective roles as Myrtle Snow and Moira O'Hara from Coven and Murder House in Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story: Apocalypse, her seventh appearance on the show.
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Frances Conroy co-starred in the 2019 film Joker, an origin story film of the Batman supervillain the Joker, as the character's mother.
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Frances Conroy returned to the American Horror Story franchise in 2021 with American Horror Story: Double Feature.
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In 2023, Frances Conroy voiced The Director in the animated feature film Nimona.
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In 1980, she married Jonathan Furst; they divorced in the late 1980s, and Frances Conroy subsequently married actor Jan Munroe in 1992.
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Frances Conroy had a car accident which damaged her right eye; the cornea was fixed through surgery which decolored the eye in the process.