Frances McDormand
With the Coen Brothers, she has made four other films; Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, and the upcoming Focus Features release Burn After Reading, with George Clooney, Richard Jenkins, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton.
Ms. McDormand has starred in the television films The Good Old Boys, directed by Tommy Lee Jones; Talking With…, directed by Kathy Bates; Crazy in Love, directed by Martha Coolidge; and Hidden in America (Emmy Award nomination), opposite Jeff Bridges and directed by Martin Bell.
She studied at the Yale School of Drama. Her stage successes include Caryl Churchill's Far Away, directed by Stephen Daldry, at the New York Theatre Workshop; her Tony Award-nominated performance as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire; The Sisters Rosenzweig, at Lincoln Center; The Swan, at the Public Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire (this time as Blanche), at the Gate Theater in Dublin; and Dare Clubb's Oedipus, at the Blue Light Theater Company, opposite Billy Crudup. Recently, she spent two years with The Wooster Group workshopping and then performing To You, The Birdie!
She will return to the Broadway stage this spring in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl, directed by Mike Nichols and starring opposite Morgan Freeman.
Frances McDormand Facts
| Occupation | Actress |
| Birthday | June 23, 1957 (52) |
| Sign | Cancer |
| Birthplace | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Height | 5' 6" (1m68) |
| Awards | 1997 Academy Awards: Best Actress (for Fargo) |
| 1997 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Female Actor in a Leading Role (for Fargo) |