Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand was born Frances Louise McDormand in 1957 on 23rd of June. She was born in Chicago of Illinois in the United States. She was an adopted child for parents Noreen E Nickleson and Vernon V. McDormand who were a nurse/receptionist and a Christ Pastor by profession respectively. Her parents had no biological children of their own and adopted Frances siblings one of whom a Dorothy A. McDormand is also a chaplain and Discipline of Christ members.

When she was a child, her father moved her family around many towns of Illinois, Kentucky, Georgia and Tennesse before finally settling in Pennsylvania’s Monessen. The reason for so much moving around towns was that her father Venon McDormand was a specialist in the restoration of congregations. It was in Monessen that she completed her high school education from the Monessen High School in the year 1975.

In 1979, she studied in West Virginia at Bethany College and received a B.A degree in Theater. Frances also earned her Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama where she had fellow actress Holly Hunter Holly P. Hunter is a Hollywood actress-cum-produce >> Read More... as her roommate. Frances started her acting Career working in a Play that was written by Derek Walcott and was a funding project of McArthur Foundation. The play was in Trinidad and Tobago. She made her appearance in the film industry in 1984 with her film “Blood Simple” which also happened to be the debut project for the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen Ethan Coen is an American Film Director, Writer, F >> Read More... . She went on to marry Joel Coen Joel Coen is an American Producer. He is the elder >> Read More... in the same year of 1984.In the year 1985, Frances shared house with once roommate Holly Hunter and a director Sam Raimi in The Bronx.

In the year 1987, she played the character of a friend of Dot in a Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter starrer “Rising Arizona”. She even has roles on TV like that of Connie Chapman in “Hill Street Blues”, a police drama series, to her credit. She has been in the industry for over three decades and is well respected for her contribution to the industry. She has portrayed many roles over the year in both theatrical, film and television industry. Over the years, she has garnered critical acclaim from both the Academy and the critics alike. She has many awards to her credit and has received nominations from the Academy Awards four times. Some of her most remarkable roles were in films like “Mississippi Burning” in 1998-89, “Short Cuts” in 1993, “Fargo” in 1996-97, and “Almost Famous” in 200-01, etc.

Her Movie Fargo won her almost 22 nominations out of which she won almost 18 awards including a Screen Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by Female Lead, Academy Award for the Best Actress, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... Critics Award for Best Actress, etc. In 2015, another one of films called “Olive Kitteridge” won her five nominations out of which she won four of them including another Screen Guilds Award for Best Actress, Critics Choice Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance as a Female Lead.

She has displayed her talent and versatility over the period of her career and continues to prove the same till date. She also has a son whom she adopted with her husband of now more than 30 years. She adopted her son Pedro who though was born in 1994 in Paraguay and was brought home to live with them in Manhattan in New York.