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Frances McDormand
Highest Rated: 95% Short Cuts (1993)
Lowest Rated: 9% Aeon Flux (2005)
Birthday: Jun 23, 1957
Birthplace: Gibson City, Illinois, USA
As the good-natured, but sharp-minded sheriff on the trail of two murderers in her breakout film, "Fargo" (1996), actress Frances McDormand made a significant mark as an actress, playing one of the more unique, homespun characters in cinema history. Prior to her award-winning performance, McDormand essayed a variety of roles, but mainly focused on put-upon wives or classic femme fatales in films like "Blood Simple" (1984) and "Mississippi Burning" (1988). Later in her career, she branched off into more diverse leading and supporting roles for "Lone Star" (1996), "Wonder Boys" (2000) and "Almost Famous" (2000), though she continued to make her strongest appearances in husband Joel Coens' darkly comic noirs, including "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001). By the time she received her third Academy Award nomination for her supporting performance in "North Country" (2005), it was well established that McDormand was a gifted actress in both comedy and drama and whose best work never failed to impress critics and fans alike.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90% | 80% | Women Talking |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
$5.4M | 2022 |
| 92% | 74% | The Tragedy of Macbeth |
Lady Macbeth (Character), Producer |
- | 2021 |
| 75% | 76% | The French Dispatch | Lucinda Krementz (Character) | $16.1M | 2021 |
| 93% | 82% | Nomadland |
Fern (Character), Producer |
- | 2020 |
| 90% | 87% | Isle of Dogs | Interpreter Nelson (Voice) | $31.9M | 2018 |
| 90% | 87% | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred (Character) | $54.1M | 2017 |
| 86% | 44% | Hail, Caesar! | C.C. Calhoun (Character) | $30.0M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She's the Best Thing In It | Self | - | 2015 |
| 75% | 64% | The Good Dinosaur | Momma (Voice) | $123.1M | 2015 |
| 32% | 32% | Every Secret Thing | Producer | $97.0K | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rebels With a Cause | Narrator | - | 2013 |
| 53% | 46% | Promised Land | Sue Thomason (Character) | $7.6M | 2012 |
| 93% | 86% | Moonrise Kingdom | Mrs. Bishop (Character) | $45.5M | 2012 |
| 78% | 72% | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Voice) | - | 2012 |
| 66% | 58% | This Must Be the Place | Jane (Character) | $142.2K | 2011 |
| 35% | 55% | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Mearing (Character) | $352.4M | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | The Botany of Desire | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 78% | 65% | Burn After Reading | Linda Litzke (Character) | $60.3M | 2008 |
| 78% | 71% | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Miss Pettigrew (Character) | $12.3M | 2008 |
| 72% | 40% | Friends With Money | Jane (Character) | $13.4M | 2006 |
| 9% | 39% | Aeon Flux | Handler (Character) | $25.9M | 2005 |
| 70% | 76% | North Country | Glory (Character) | $18.3M | 2005 |
| 72% | 69% | Something's Gotta Give | Zoe Barry (Character) | $124.6M | 2003 |
| 68% | 52% | Laurel Canyon | Jane Bentley (Character) | $3.7M | 2002 |
| 48% | 40% | City by the Sea | Michelle (Character) | $22.4M | 2002 |
| 81% | 85% | The Man Who Wasn't There | Doris (Character) | $7.5M | 2001 |
| 67% | 87% | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy | Voice (Voice) | - | 2000 |
| 91% | 92% | Almost Famous | Elaine Miller (Character) | $32.5M | 2000 |
| 81% | 83% | Wonder Boys | Sara Gaskell (Character) | $19.4M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Talk of Angels | Conlon (Character) | $15.5K | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Johnny Skidmarks | Alice (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 65% | 43% | Madeline | Miss Clavel (Character) | $29.8M | 1998 |
| 43% | 78% | Paradise Road | Dr. Verstak (Character) | $1.9M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Hidden in America | Gus (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 91% | 83% | Lone Star | Bunny (Character) | $13.1M | 1996 |
| 77% | 89% | Primal Fear | Dr. Molly Arrington (Character) | $56.1M | 1996 |
| 94% | 92% | Fargo | Marge Gunderson (Character) | $24.5M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | The Good Old Boys | Eve Calloway (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 35% | 71% | Beyond Rangoon | Andy Bowman (Character) | $5.1M | 1995 |
| 64% | 63% | Palookaville | June (Character) | $342.4K | 1995 |
| 95% | 88% | Short Cuts | Betty Weathers (Character) | $6.1M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Crazy in Love | Clare (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 10% | 45% | Passed Away | Nora Scanlan (Character) | $3.8M | 1992 |
| 24% | 29% | The Butcher's Wife | Grace (Character) | $8.9M | 1991 |
| 86% | 72% | Hidden Agenda | Ingrid Jessner (Character) | $69.2K | 1990 |
| 83% | 59% | Darkman | Julie Hastings (Character) | $32.8M | 1990 |
| 11% | 51% | Chattahoochee | Mae Foley (Character) | $17.5K | 1989 |
| 79% | 90% | Mississippi Burning | Mrs. Pell (Character) | $33.7M | 1988 |
| 91% | 85% | Raising Arizona | Dot (Character) | $21.1M | 1987 |
| 94% | 88% | Blood Simple | Abby (Character) | $1.7M | 1984 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85% | 94% | Good Omens | God (Voice) | 2019 |
| 94% | 96% | Olive Kitteridge |
Olive Kitteridge (Character), Executive Producer |
2014 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Melanie Upfoot (Guest Voice) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leg Work | Willie Pipal (Character) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spenser: For Hire | Unknown (Character) | 1986 |
| 97% | No Score Yet | Hill Street Blues | Connie Chapman (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Nina Sloan (Guest Star) | 1985 |