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Date of Birth : Jun 23rd 1957

After Yale, McDormand moved to New York, where she roomed with her Yale Drama classmate Holly Hunter and performed with the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference. Her first professional acting job came in 1982, when she traveled to Trinidad to perform in a play written by the Jamaican poet Derek Walcott. Through Hunter, she met Joel and Ethan Coen, two brothers who were casting their debut film, a low-budget thriller. McDormand won the lead in the film, that of the unfaithful wife of a Texas bar owner who decides to have her and her lover killed. Blood Simple, released in 1984 to overwhelming critical acclaim, marked the beginning of her personal and professional collaboration with director Joel Coen, whom she married in 1994. The couple has an adopted son, Pedro.

McDormand followed up on her turn in Blood Simple with an appearance as a nun in Crimewave (1985), written by Joel and Ethan Coen, and a role in the short-lived television series Leg Work (1987). She reteamed with the Coen brothers with a supporting role in their second major effort, the outlandish comedy Raising Arizona (1987), which featured her old roommate Hunter in her first starring role, opposite Nicolas Cage.

McDormand was still virtually unknown when she garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her emotional portrayal of a Southern woman abused by her bigoted husband in the civil rights drama Mississippi Burning (1988), starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe. That same year, she triumphed on stage as well as on screen, earning a Tony Award nomination for her turn as Stella Kowalski in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, costarring Blythe Danner and Aidan Quinn. She returned to Broadway in 1992, playing one of The Sisters Rosensweig in Wendy Wasserstein’s acclaimed play.


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Isle of Dogs ( 2018 )

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Hail, Caesar! ( 2016 )

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Promised Land ( 2013 )

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Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 )

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Aeon Flux ( 2006 )

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North Country ( 2006 )

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Laurel Canyon ( 2003 )

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City by the Sea ( 2003 )

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Almost Famous ( 2001 )

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Wonder Boys ( 2000 )

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Madeline ( 1999 )

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Lone Star ( 1996 )

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Fargo ( 1996 )

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Beyond Rangoon ( 1995 )

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Barton Fink ( 1992 )

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Darkman ( 1990 )

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Raising Arizona ( 1987 )

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Blood Simple ( 1985 )

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