Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormandis an American actress. She has been married to director and writer Joel Coen since 1984 and has starred in several of the Coen brothers' films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't Thereand Burn After Reading. McDormand is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. In 1997, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Fargo. In 2011, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 June 1957
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
It was an excellent job, ... I like the idea of playing a 42-year-old woman -- actually, 41, I was 41 last year -- who was pregnant and has to face it.
Here was a way to actually do it with other people, instead all by yourself with a book, ... Here you can get together, read a play, memorize it and put it on stage.
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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.
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
I played his mother, so that was kind of fascinating, ... I met her, she had a small part in the movie, and he adores her, so I was really lucky.
I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own.
I never trusted good-looking boys.
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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.
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.
The only power you have is the word no