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  1. Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith; June 23, 1957) is an American actress and producer.In a career spanning over four decades, she has gained acclaim for her roles in small-budget independent films.McDormand has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and one Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting".Additionally, she has received three BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards. McDormand's worldwide ...

  2. Frances McDormand. Actress: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She earned a BA in theater from Bethany College in 1979 and an MFA from...

  3. 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) and also made her Broadway debut in the revival Awake and Sing! in the same year. In 1985, she starred in the crime drama series Hunter and played a police officer on the procedural drama Hill Street Blues. For her performance as a sheriff's wife in Mississippi Burning (1988), she received a nomination ...

  4. Jun 19, 2024 · Frances McDormand, American actress who was acclaimed for her unadorned but magnetic interpretations of character roles in film, on TV, and on the stage. Her notable movies included Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Fargo (1996), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and Nomadland (2020).

  5. Apr 26, 2021 · Frances McDormand’s third Oscar win puts her nearly in a league of her own.. McDormand won the Best Actress award on Sunday night at the 93rd Academy Awards for her role in “Nomadland.”. She ...

  6. Apr 26, 2021 · Yuh-Jung Youn, from left, winner of the award for best actress in a supporting role for “Minari,” Daniel Kaluuya, winner of the award for best actor in a supporting role for “Judas and the Black Messiah,” and Frances McDormand, winner of the award for best actress in a leading role for “Nomadland,” pose outside the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.

  7. Frances McDormand is “magnificently natural” in her latest film, Nomadland, written and directed by Chloé Zhao. It’s an “illuminating, tough-minded portrait”, writes Caryn James.

  8. Apr 26, 2021 · Frances McDormand won best actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards for portraying Fern, a woman who takes to the road after the plant in her small-town closes down, in “Nomadland.” It’s ...

  9. Apr 25, 2021 · Frances McDormand has won the Best Actress Academy Award at the 2021 Oscars Sunday night for her celebrated performance in “Nomadland.”It’s a historic win: In taking home her third Best ...

  10. Feb 22, 2021 · It was a February day so overcast that noon looked like dusk, and Frances McDormand felt a little rattled. She told me this as we ambled down the main street of the small coastal town where she ...