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Frances McDormand
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Spouse
Joel Coen (1984 - present)
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Trivia

(1999) Has one adopted son, Pedro McDormand Coen

Once lived in an apartment with Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel and Holly Hunter

Attended Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia
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Personal 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."

Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Toothy, persuasive actress with a chameleonlike ability to disappear into her roles. She instantly attracted notice in her movie debut as the faithless wife in the Coen brothers'Blood Simple (1984), and rejoined the sibling filmmakers for cameos as a wacky neighbor in Raising Arizona (1987) and a secretary in Miller's Crossing (1990). McDormand's Oscar nomination for a heartfelt performance as a woman reluctantly testifying against her Klansman husband in Mississippi Burning (1988) led to steady work, including her appearances as a human rights activist in Hidden Agenda a shell-shock victim's wife in Chattahoochee a perplexed yet resourceful leading lady in Darkman (all 1990), and a lateblooming lesbian shoe clerk in The Butcher's Wife (1991). On TV, she played a cocaine-snorting assistant D.A. in several episodes of "Hill Street Blues," and a non-wacky neighbor on "Leg Work" (1987). Recent credits include Passed Away (1992) and Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993).

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