Frances Conroy
Frances Conroy
Frances Hardman Conroyis an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under. Her work on the show won her acclaim and several awards, including a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is also known for playing the older version of the character Moira O'Hara on season one of the television anthology series American Horror Story, which garnered Conroy her first Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth13 November 1953
CityMonroe, GA
CountryUnited States of America
Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.
It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.