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IMDb provides a comprehensive list of Frances McDormand's movies, TV shows, awards, and personal details. See her roles in Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Nomadland, and more.
- Actress, Producer, Soundtrack
- June 23, 1957
- 2 min
Browse the list of movies and TV shows featuring Frances McDormand, the Oscar-winning actor known for Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Nomadland. See her full credits, awards, and upcoming projects.
74 Metascore. An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. Director Curtis Hanson Stars Michael Douglas Tobey Maguire Frances McDormand. 10. Blood Simple.
Awards. Full list. 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 ...
- Wonder Boys
- Mississippi Burning
- Laurel Canyon
- Almost Famous
- Blood Simple
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- The Man Who Wasn’T There
- Fargo
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Nomadland
As the pregnant married lover of Michael Douglas’s silver-fox creative writing professor, this is the kind of fairly thankless ancillary role that McDormand does so well: giving us a subtle insight into the human frailties under the surface of an otherwise tough-nut authority figure.
McDormand impressed the Oscar voters for the first time in this impassioned study of small-town racism, inspired by the real-life murder of three civil rights workers in 1964. Giving an early hint of her progressive politics (which would later see her link up with radical directors Ken Loach and John Sayles), McDormand plays the pivotal role of the...
McDormand’s early roles tended to be of the hardscrabble, blue-collar serious variety, but a certain mid-90s thriller unlocked her gift for comedy and allowed her considerable leeway to cut loose. In this Lisa Cholodenko tribute to the LA music scene, McDormand plays a free-spirit record producer inspired by (but in truth not all that similar to) J...
Another rock’n’roll epic, but McDormand is back in the somewhat-thankless corner, playing a 70s smother-mother to Patrick Fugit’s wannabe music journalist. More offspring-embarrassment – yelling “don’t take drugs” as she drops Fugit outside a Black Sabbath concert; berating longhair rock god Billy Crudup over the phone – but as ever, McDormand’s ab...
McDormand’s first film role could hardly have gone better: the lead in the Coen brothers’ neo-noir, as the cheating wife who is the only survivor of the welter of gruesome killings sparked by her waltzing off with one of her husband’s bartenders. (Director-star chemistry was confirmed when, shortly after the film’s release, she got married to Joel ...
Nearly four decades later, Joel Coen (sans brother Ethan) didn’t have to look far for the female lead for his tremendously styled adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy; as the Guardian’s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote, Lady Macbeth is a role McDormand was “born to play”. Both McDormand and Denzel Washington exude a later-life weariness, conce...
One of the Coens’ most underrated films, anchored by a taciturn Billy Bob Thornton in a career-best performance. McDormand has a relatively small role, another cheating wife, but makes it incredibly vivid: from bathtime domesticity to dinner-party entertainer, to raddled jailbird. A pitch-perfect homage to film noir of the Double Indemnity school, ...
Once again, the Coens didn’t have to look far; this was McDormand’s fifth film with the pair, but her first lead for them since Blood Simple. And it was revelatory: as pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson, McDormand gave a comic performance of slam-dunk brilliance, negotiating a series of horrible murders with unflappable calm and ingenuity. And i...
Oscar number two arrived via Martin McDonagh’s undeniably Coens-esque drama, set in the fictional midwest small town of the title, and ushering in an extraordinary career third act that elevated McDormand to perhaps the greatest American dramatic performer of this generation. Her daughter murdered, McDormand’s Mildred Hayes takes on the local polic...
McDormand entered Daniel Day-Lewis territory with this, her third best actress Oscar win, for a film that counts as an unprecedented personal triumph: she optioned the source material, hired the director (Chloe Zhao) and was one of the producers as well as the star. Whatever you may think of the film’s starry-eyed portrayalof van-dwelling disposess...
Frances McDormand on screen and stage. 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. [1] [2] In 1985, she starred in the crime drama series Hunter and played a police officer on ...
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. Director Joel Coen Ethan Coen Stars William H. Macy Frances McDormand Steve Buscemi. 6. Primal Fear. 1996 2h 9m R.
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