Frances McDormand Net Worth

Frances McDormand's Quotes

• [on how she got the part in Fargo (1996)] "The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."
• On playing 'mothers': "Those roles weren't just mothers in a story about a male protagonist. First they were specific, three-dimensional people."
• On "women's pictures": "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. I cry too, maybe three times a week, but it's not in closeup. It's a wide shot. It's in the context of a very large and very mean world."
• 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.
• With most people when there's a pain in their life there's mental scar tissue that forms over the pain and helps you go on living. An actor's scar tissue really never covers over things the same way, not if you're going to be sensitive. With good technique, an actor can do that and walk through life without going insane.

Interesting Facts about Frances McDormand

1. Has one son, Pedro McDormand Coen, adopted from Paraguay in 1994.
2. Once lived in an apartment with Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel, and Holly Hunter.
3. Was the third and youngest child adopted by her minister father, Vernon McDormand, and his wife, Noreen.
4. Raised in Monessen, Pennsylvania.
5. Sister-in-law of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
6. Both of her adoptive parents were born in Canada. Her father, The Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister, was from Nova Scotia. Her mother, Noreen Eloise (Nickleson) McDormand, a housewife and nurse, was from Ontario.
7. Graduated from Bethany College, in Bethany, West Virginia, with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Theater in 1979. She graduated from Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1982.
8. Was jury president of the Berlin Film Festival, 2004.
9. Her Oscar-winning role, as Marge Gunderson in the film Fargo (1996), was ranked #33 in the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
10. Was nominated for Broadway's 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire.".
11. Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2006 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film Æon Flux (2005). However, she failed to receive a nomination. (Had she gotten the nomination, she would have been one of the few to be nominated for both Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars, for North Country (2005), and Worst Supporting Actress at the Razzies in the same year.)
12. Her performance as Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996) is ranked #27 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
13. As of 2013, she is one of six women who has received a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and the only one to have actually won, for a performance directed by her spouse--in McDormand's case, for Fargo (1996), directed by Joel Coen. The other five are Elisabeth Bergner for Escape Me Never (1935), directed by Paul Czinner; Joanne Woodward for Rachel, Rachel (1968), directed by Paul Newman; Jean Simmons for The Happy Ending (1969), directed by Richard Brooks; Gena Rowlands for A Woman Under the Influence (1974) & for Gloria (1980), both directed by John Cassavetes; and Julie Andrews for Victor Victoria (1982), directed by Blake Edwards. Melina Mercouri received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Never on Sunday (1960), directed by her future husband Jules Dassin, but Mercouri and Dassin weren't yet married at the time of the nomination.
14. Co-starred with Charlize Theron in two films during the same year (Æon Flux (2005) and North Country (2005)).
15. Shared an apartment in the Bronx with Holly Hunter in the early 1980s until they moved in with Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and Sam Raimi into a house in Los Angeles.
16. Won a Tony for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play in 2011. She was awarded for her performance in the play "Good People".
17. Was the 111th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Fargo (1996) at The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997) on March 24, 1997.
18. Is one of 25 actresses who have received an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy, hers being for Fargo (1996). The others, in chronological order, are Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)), Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
19. In 2015 she became the 23rd performer to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony). She won the 1997 Best Actress Oscar for Fargo (1996), the 2011 Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony for "Good People," and the 2015 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Emmy for Olive Kitteridge (2014).
20. Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony). The others, in chronological order, are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Jessica Lange,Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.