Frances McDormand on screen and stage

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McDormand on the set of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day in 2007

Frances McDormand is an American actress and producer who made her film debut in the Coen brothers' neo-noir Blood Simple (1984).[1] She also made her Broadway debut in the revival Awake and Sing! in the same year. In 1985, she played a police officer on the television series Hill Street Blues.[2] For her performance as a sheriff's wife in Mississippi Burning (1988), she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.[3][4] In the same year, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Stella Kowalski in the revival A Streetcar Named Desire.[5]

McDormand received critical acclaim and won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a pregnant Minnesotan police chief in the Coen brothers' black comedy Fargo.[6][7] In the same year, she played a psychiatrist in legal thriller Primal Fear. In 1997, McDormand garnered a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role as a mechanic in the television film Hidden in America.[8] She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as an overprotective mother in Cameron Crowe-directed comedy-drama Almost Famous (2000).[9]

She starred in drama North Country and science fiction action film Æon Flux with Charlize Theron (both in 2005). For the former, McDormand received a nomination for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.[10] She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as a single mother in Good People (2011).[11] McDormand garnered critical acclaim and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for playing the title character of an abrasive schoolteacher in Olive Kitteridge (2014) which she also produced.[8][12]

McDormand garnered her second Best Actress Oscar as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for playing a mother striving for justice for the unsolved murder of her daughter in Martin McDonagh-directed crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).[13][14][15] For her performance as a vandwelling nomad in Chloe Zhao's 2020 drama Nomadland she received her third Best Actress Oscar and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She also produced the film and received the Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film.[16][17]

Film[]

List of film credits
Year Title Role(s) Notes Ref(s)
1984 Blood Simple Abby [18][19]
1985 Crimewave Nun [20]
1987 Raising Arizona Dot [20]
1988 Mississippi Burning Mrs. Pell [20]
1989 Chattahoochee Mae Foley [20]
1990 Darkman Julie Hastings [20]
1990 Miller's Crossing Mayor's Secretary Uncredited [20]
1990 Hidden Agenda Ingrid Jessner [21]
1991 Barton Fink Stage Actress (voice) Uncredited [22]
1991 The Butcher's Wife Grace [23]
1992 Passed Away Nora Scanlan [20]
1993 Short Cuts Betty Weathers [20]
1994 Bleeding Hearts Woman on TV [24]
1995 Beyond Rangoon Andy Bowman [25]
1995 Palookaville June [20]
1996 Fargo Marge Gunderson [26]
1996 Primal Fear Dr. Molly Arrington [27]
1996 Lone Star Bunny [28]
1997 Paradise Road Dr. Verstak [29]
1998 Johnny Skidmarks Alice [30]
1998 Madeline Miss Clavel [31]
1998 Talk of Angels Conlon [32]
2000 Wonder Boys Dean Sara Gaskell [33]
2000 Almost Famous Elaine Miller [34]
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There Doris Crane [35]
2002 Laurel Canyon Jane [20]
2002 City by the Sea Michelle [36]
2003 Something's Gotta Give Zoe Barry [37]
2005 North Country Glory [20]
2005 Æon Flux The Handler [38]
2006 Friends with Money Jane [20]
2008 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Guinevere Pettigrew [20]
2008 Burn After Reading Linda Litzke [20]
2011 This Must Be the Place Jane [20]
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Charlotte Mearing [20]
2012 Moonrise Kingdom Mrs. Bishop [20]
2012 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Captain Chantal Dubois (voice) [20]
2012 Promised Land Sue Thomason [20]
2014 Every Secret Thing N/A Producer [39]
2015 The Good Dinosaur Momma (voice) [40]
2016 Hail, Caesar! C. C. Calhoun [41]
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Mildred Hayes [42]
2018 Isle of Dogs Interpreter Nelson (voice) [43]
2020 Nomadland Fern Also producer [44]
2021 The French Dispatch Lucinda Krementz [45]
2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth Lady Macbeth Also producer [46]
TBA Women Talking TBA Post-production
Also producer 		[47]
Key
Films that have not yet been released Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television[]

List of television credits
Year(s) Title Role(s) Notes Ref(s)
1985 Hunter Nina Sloan Episode: "The Garbage Man" [48]
1985 Hill Street Blues Connie Chapman 6 episodes [2]
1986 Spenser: For Hire Mary Episode: "A Day's Wages" [49]
1986 The Twilight Zone Amanda Strickland Segment: "Need to Know" [50]
1986 Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo Brigette Television film [51]
1987 Leg Work Willie Pipal 10 episodes [20]
1992 Crazy in Love Clare Television film [52]
1995 The Good Old Boys Eve Calloway Television film [53]
1996 Hidden in America Gus Television film [54]
1998 Sesame Street: Kids' Guide to Life: Big Bird Gets Lost Herself Short film [55]
2001 American Experience Victoria Price (voice) Documentary
Episode: "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy" 		[56]
2001–2002 State of Grace Narrator / Adult Hannah (voice) 39 episodes [57]
2006 The Simpsons Melanie Upfoot (voice) Episode: "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" [58]
2014 Olive Kitteridge Olive Kitteridge Miniseries (4 episodes); also producer [59]
2019 Good Omens God (voice) 6 episodes [60]

Stage[]

List of theater credits
Year(s) Title Theater Role Notes Ref(s)
1983–1984 Painting Churches Lamb's Theatre Margaret Church Understudy; November 22, 1983 – May 20, 1984 [61]
1984 Awake and Sing! Circle in the Square Theatre Hennie Berger March 8 – April 29 [62]
1988 A Streetcar Named Desire Circle in the Square Theatre Stella Kowalski February 20 – April 17 [62]
1992–1993 The Sisters Rosensweig Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater Pfeni Rosensweig October 22, 1992 – February 28, 1993 [61]
1993 The Swan The Public Theater Dora November 9 – December 12 [61]
2002–2003 Far Away New York Theatre Workshop Harper November 11, 2002 – January 18, 2003 [61]
2006–2007 An Oak Tree Barrow Street Theatre Father November 4, 2006 – January 14, 2007 [61]
2008 A Country Girl Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre Georgie Elgin April 27 – July 20 [62]
2011 Good People Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Margaret March 3 – May 29 [62]
2016 Macbeth Berkeley Repertory Theatre Lady Macbeth / Weird Sister February 19 – April 10 [63]

See also[]

References[]

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