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
I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences
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.
Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.
I am an ordinary person.
There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.