Frances McDormand Biography (3)
She recently starred in the Coen Bros. release The Man Who Wasn't There and City by the Sea with Robert DeNiro for director Michael Caton-Jones. Her duo work in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous and Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys earned her several award citations including the LA Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (cited for both films), as well as Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominations for Almost Famous.
To date she has starred in four films for the Coen Bros: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, and The Man Who Wasn't There. Others screen credits include John Sayles' Lone Star, Robert Altman's Short Cuts, John Boorman's Beyond Rangoon, Sam Raimi's Darkman, Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road,' Ken Loach's Hidden Agenda, Daisy V.S. Mayer's Madeline, Gregory Hoblit's Primal Fear, Alan Taylor's Palookaville, Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning, and Mick Jackson's Chattahoochee."
McDormand's telefilm credits include Martha Coolidge's Crazy in Love, Tommy Lee Jones' The Good Old Boys, Kathy Bates' Talking With..., and Martin Bell's Hidden in America. She also provides narration for the Fox Family Channel series State of Grace.
McDormand studied acting at the Yale School of Drama. Her stage successes include a Tony-nominated performance as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, the original Lincoln Theater Center production of The Sisters Rosenzweig, and The Public Theatre production of The Swan. More recent stage credits include a production of A Streetcar Named Desire, this time as Blanche DuBois, the Obie Award-winning new play Oedipus with Billy Crudup and the Wooster Group production of Phaedre with Kate Valk and Willem Dafoe.
Currently, McDormand resides in New York with her husband Joel Coen and son Pedro.
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