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Frances McDORMAND

Acteur/trice
États-Unis

Français

Femme de Joël COEN et belle soeur d’Ethan Coen.

Née le 23 Juin 1957 à Chicago (Illinois, USA).

Parfois créditée sous le nom de:
Francis McDorman / Fran McDormand

Surnom
Fran
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Taille
1,68 m (5′ 6″pieds)
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Biographie succincte
Frances McDormand est née à Chicago en 1957, et a été adoptée par le ministre canadien Vernan McDormand et sa femme Noreen.

Citations
[Sur comment et a pris part à Fargo (1996)] « Le fait de dormir avec le réalisateur a pu peser dedans. »

Sur le fait de jouer des ‘mères’: « Those roles weren’t just mothers in a story about a male protagonist. First they were specific, three-dimensional people. »

Sur les « films de femmes »: « Most women’s pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men’s pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down. I cry too, maybe three times a week, but it’s not in closeup. It’s a wide shot. It’s in the context of a very large and very mean world. »

« I’m a character actress, plain and simple…Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers – actors work, and then they don’t work, and then they work again. »

Source:
www.imdb.com

English

Joel COEN’s spouse.

Date of birth (location)
23 June 1957
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sometimes Credited As:
Francis McDorman / Fran McDormand

Nickname
Fran
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Height
5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
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Mini biography
Frances McDormand was born in Chicago in 1957, and was adopted by Canadian minister Vernan McDormand and his wife Noreen, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She earned her B.A. in Theater from Bethany College in 1979 and her MFA from Yale in 1982.

Her career after graduation began onstage, and she has retained her association with the theater throughout her career. She soon obtained prominent roles in movies as well, first starring in Blood Simple. (1984), in which she worked with filmmaker Joel Coen, whom she married that year. She frequently collaborated with Coen and his brother Ethan Coen in their films.

McDormand’s skilled and versatile acting has been recognized by both the critics and the Academy, and in addition to many critics’ awards she has been nominated for an Academy award four times – for Mississippi Burning (1988), Fargo (1996) (for which she won the Best Actress award), Almost Famous (2000), and North Country (2005).

Keenly intelligent and possessed of a sharp wit, McDormand is the antithesis of the Hollywood starlet – rather than making every role about Frances McDormand, Frances McDormand dissolves into the characters she plays. Accordingly, she has expressed some reservations about the iconic recognition she has gained from her touching and amusing portrayal of Police Chief Marge Gunderson, the quintessential Minnesota Scandinavian, in « Fargo. »

McDormand and Coen adopted a son, Pedro, who was born in Paraguay, in 1994. They live in Manhattan.


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IMDb mini-biography by
Larry-115
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Spouse
Joel Coen (1984 – present) 2 children

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Trivia
Has one son, Pedro McDormand Coen, adopted from Paraguay in 1994

Once lived in an apartment with Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel and Holly Hunter

Was the third and youngest child adopted by her minister father Vernon and his wife, Noreen.

Raised in Monessen, Pennsylvania.

Sister-in-law of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.

Both of her parents were born in Canada. Her father, Vernon McDormand, was a Disciples of Christ minister and her mother, Noreen McDormand, a housewife.

She attended Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia and received her B.A. in Theater, 1979. Then she attended Yale University School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut and received her M.F.A., 1982.

Was jury president of Berlin film festival 2004.

Her Oscar-winning role, as Marge Gunderson from her 1996 film Fargo (1996), was ranked #33 in the American Film Institute’s Heroes list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.

Was nominated for Broadway’s 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Tennessee Williams’ « A Streetcar Named Desire. »

Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2006 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film Æon Flux (2005). However, she failed to receive a nomination. (Had she gotten the nomination, she would have been one of the few to be nominated for both Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars, for North Country (2005), and Worst Supporting Actress at the Razzies in the same year.)

With the exception of Almost Famous (2000) and Mississippi Burning (1988), two of her four Oscar-nominated roles were in films that took place in Minnesota: Fargo (1996) and North Country (2005).

Her performance as « Marge Gunderson » in Fargo (1996) is ranked #27 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.


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Personal quotes
[On how she got the part in Fargo (1996)] « The fact that I’m sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. »

On playing ‘mothers’: « Those roles weren’t just mothers in a story about a male protagonist. First they were specific, three-dimensional people. »

On « women’s pictures »: « Most women’s pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men’s pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down. I cry too, maybe three times a week, but it’s not in closeup. It’s a wide shot. It’s in the context of a very large and very mean world. »

« I’m a character actress, plain and simple…Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers – actors work, and then they don’t work, and then they work again. »

Source:
www.imdb.com
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