Frances McDormand

American actress Frances McDormand won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her turn as the sweet but smart local police chief Marge Gunderson in the Coen Brothers' 1996 film Fargo. She was also nominated for her leading role in 2005's North Country and for supporting roles in Mississippi Burning and Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. Her film debut came in 1984 in the Coens' Blood Simple, and she married Joel Coen that same year.

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• June 23, 1957: Born

• 1984: Blood Simple - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1987: Raising Arizona - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1988: Mississippi Burning - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1991: The Butcher's Wife - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1994: Short Cuts - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1996: Fargo - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 1996: Primal Fear - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 2000: Almost Famous - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 2003: Something's Gotta Give - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 2005: North Country - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 2006: Friends with Money - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 2008: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

• 2008: Burn After Reading - IMDb Listing | Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

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