Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand was born in Chicago on June 23, 1957, and was adopted by Canadian Disciples of Christ pastor Vernan McDormand and his wife Noreen, who gave her all their love. She liked acting, so she was grabbing titles to that effect, in 1979 at Bettany College, and in 1982 at Yale University, where she met Holly Hunter , with whom she shared a room.

The great virtue of Frances, an actress, is that she keeps her feet on the ground, she knows what she is capable of, she acts in a natural way, and she knows how to make people laugh as well as embodying a woman in danger, a lady in an extreme situation, and even to a treacherous personality. Regarding the differences between working in theater and film, Fran recognized me in an interview I had with her in 2003: “In theater, if I believe something, you, as a spectator, can believe it. (makes a gesture of concentration) “I’m pretty,” and you think I’m pretty. “I am wonderful, I am a queen”, and I am. I believe it and so do you. In cinema the connection is through perception, of what you see, and it is different. Which is a problem, especially with women: there is a demand for age, class, education,

1984 was a very special year for Frances, or Fran, as her friends call her. She made her feature film debut in Easy Blood , a superb noir show from brothers Joel and Ethan Coen , who literally revamped the genre with their homage to the novels of James M. Cain . And at the same time, there was a crush on Joel Coen , as they both married the following year, a happy marriage, which has also allowed for happy film collaborations, in Arizona Baby , Fargo – which gave him a well-deserved Oscar, a joy that he was able to share with her husband, since he won the statuette for the best screenplay together with his brother-, The man who was never there andBurn after reading .

Fran has a normal face, with a somewhat prominent nose, and immediately arouses the sympathy of those who have her in front of her. And he proved he could pull off great roles without his family, in Alan Parker ‘s Burning Mississippi , his first Oscar nomination, and Ken Loach ‘s Hidden Agenda , a courageous look at the IRA’s combating terrorism. Curiously, in both titles she moved in the world of human rights activists, a theme that would be repeated in the drama Beyond Rangoon , where she worked under the orders of John Boorman .

McDormand has been allowed to work in lighter films, such as Darkman , by the Coens’ friend Sam Raimi , or Madeline , a family film where she was a nun. But she has always been characterized by choosing titles of substance, such as John Sayles ‘s Lone Star , about the border, Road to Paradise , about a prisoner of war in Singapore, or Young Miracles , a look at the world of Curtin Hanson’s novelist.

Her role as the mother of a young aspiring Rolling Stones journalist in Almost Famous earned her another Oscar nomination. And in In the land of men she achieved her fourth nomination. His latest films, Burn After Reading , and A Great Day For Them accomplish the feat of making it seem like it’s easy to make the viewer laugh, something that anyone who’s into comedy, or has just tried to tell a joke, knows they can’t. it is.

Fran is happy with Joel Coen, and they both adopted a child, Pedro, born in Paraguay in 1994. It is clear that the actress wanted to return the love that her parents knew how to give her.