Frances McDormand Profile

Famous As

Actress

Birth Name

Frances Louise McDormand

Birth Date

June 23, 1957

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Famous As

Actress

Personal Fact

Birth Name

Frances Louise McDormand

Birth Date

June 23, 1957

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Height

5' 6"

Nationality

American

Hair Color

Blonde

Education

Graduated from Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia in 1979 with a BA degree in theater
Graduated from Yale University School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut with an MFA degree in 1982

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✦ Is the sister-in-law of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
✦ Lived in the same house as Holly Hunter, Sam Raimi, and Coen brothers when she moved to Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California.
✦ Her character in "Fargo" (1996), Marge Gunderson, was placed on the 33rd rank in the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
✦ Is an associate member of The Wooster Group , an experimental theater company which performs all of its theatre pieces at The Performing Garage in Soho, New York City.
✦ Experienced an auto mishap that almost cost her life on her way to audition for Yale University School of Drama; fortunately she had already been cleared off the vehicle before it was demolished by a truck.