Frances McDormand's has been married to Joel Coen of the Coen brothers since 1984.
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33 Facts About Frances McDormand
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Frances McDormand's received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Mississippi Burning, Almost Famous, and North Country .
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Frances McDormand won two more Academy Awards for Best Actress for starring as a justice-seeking mother in the crime drama film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and a widowed van-dwelling nomad in the drama film Nomadland, making her the second woman in history to win Best Actress three times, and the seventh performer overall to win three competitive Academy Awards in acting categories.
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On television, Frances McDormand produced and starred as the titular protagonist in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, which won her the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
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Frances McDormand's returned to Broadway in 2008 with a revival of The Country Girl, leading to a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
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Frances McDormand's was adopted at one and a half years of age by Noreen and Vernon McDormand and renamed Frances Louise McDormand.
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Frances McDormand's has a sister, Dorothy A "Dot" McDormand, who is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and chaplain, as well as a brother, Kenneth, both of whom were adopted by the McDormands, who had no biological children.
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Frances McDormand's father specialized in restoring congregations, he frequently moved their family, and they lived in several small towns in Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, before settling in Monessen, Pennsylvania, where Frances McDormand graduated from Monessen High School in 1975.
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Frances McDormand's attended Bethany College in West Virginia, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater in 1979.
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Frances McDormand's was a roommate of actress Holly Hunter while living in New York City.
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In 1985, Frances McDormand appeared in Sam Raimi's Crimewave, as well as an episode of Hunter.
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Frances McDormand is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.
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In 1990, Frances McDormand teamed again with director Sam Raimi for Darkman, in which she co-starred alongside Liam Neeson.
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The following year, Frances McDormand appeared alongside Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels in the romantic comedy The Butcher's Wife.
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In 1993, Frances McDormand co-starred in Robert Altman's ensemble film Short Cuts, based on stories by Raymond Carver.
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In 1996, Frances McDormand starred as pregnant police Chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo, written and directed by the Coen brothers.
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Frances McDormand's garnered widespread critical acclaim for her performance, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
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Roger Ebert called Fargo "one of the best films I've ever seen" and asserted that Frances McDormand "should have a lock on an Academy Award nomination with this performance, which is true in every individual moment, and yet slyly, quietly, over the top in its cumulative effect".
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In 2003, the character of Marge Gunderson as portrayed by Frances McDormand was ranked the 33rd greatest screen hero by AFI's 100 Years.
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Also in 1996, Frances McDormand played Edward Norton's psychiatrist Dr Molly Arrington in the legal thriller Primal Fear, and appeared alongside Chris Cooper in the neo-Western mystery film Lone Star.
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In 1997, Frances McDormand received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie for her role as Gus in the television film Hidden in America .
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In 1998, Frances McDormand played the strict but loving nun Miss Clara Clavel in the family film Madeline.
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In 2001, Frances McDormand was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of an overbearing mother in Almost Famous .
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Frances McDormand starred as Billy Bob Thornton's wife Doris Crane in the Coen Brothers' film noir The Man Who Wasn't There .
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In 2005, Frances McDormand co-starred alongside Charlize Theron in the true life drama North Country, which earned her Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
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In 2007, Frances McDormand won an Independent Spirit Award for her supporting role in Nicole Holofcener's dark comedy Friends with Money .
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In 2008, Frances McDormand starred in the romantic comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day alongside Amy Adams as governess Guinevere Pettigrew, and the black comedy Burn After Reading, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
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In 2015, Frances McDormand voiced Momma Ida in the Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur.
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In 2018, Frances McDormand voiced Interpreter Nelson in Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs.
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In 2020, Frances McDormand produced and starred in Chloe Zhao's Nomadland, playing Fern, a nomad in the American West.
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Frances McDormand received universal acclaim for her performance, winning her third Academy Award for Best Actress and her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and earning nominations for the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.
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In 2021, Frances McDormand received further critical acclaim for her performances as Lady Macbeth in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth and Lucinda Krementz in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch.
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Frances McDormand makes you believe every person she plays is a flesh-and-blood human who continues living out their life once the cameras stop rolling.
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