Frances mcdormand movies list

Frances McDormand is an American actress and producer who made her film debut in the Coen brothers' neo-noir Blood Simple () and also made her Broadway debut in the revival Awake and Sing! in the same year.^[1][2] In , she starred in the crime drama series Hunter and played a police officer on the procedural drama Hill Street Blues.^[3] For her performance as a sheriff's wife in Mississippi Burning (), she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[4][5] In the same year, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for playing Stella Kowalski in the revival A Streetcar Named Desire.^[6]

McDormand received critical acclaim and won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a pregnant Minnesotan police chief in the Coen brothers' black comedy Fargo.^[7][8] In the same year, she played