Frances McDormand

Highest Rated: 95% Short Cuts (1993)

Lowest Rated: 9% Aeon Flux (2005)

Birthday: Jun 23, 1957

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

First professional acting job was with a theatrical troupe in Trinidad in 1982. New York City roommate was friend and fellow Yale graduate Holly Hunter. Met husband Joel Coen while working on her first film, Blood Simple (1984), which was also filmmaking team Joel and Ethan Coen's debut picture. Had a recurring role on Hill Street Blues in 1985. Won her first Oscar for her turn as Marge Gunderson in Fargo(1996), a film that also earned her husband Joel Coen an Oscar for directing. In 2005, she co-starred with Charlize Theron in two films: North Country and Aeon Flux. Turned in a more lighthearted performance as a nanny in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008). In 2010, signed on to return to Broadway to headline the world premiere production of the stage play Good People.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
91%	Isle of Dogs	Interpreter Nelson	—	2018
92%	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Mildred Hayes	$52.1M	2017
85%	Hail, Caesar!	C.C. Calhoun	$28M	2016
76%	The Good Dinosaur	Momma	$123.1M	2015
31%	Every Secret Thing	Producer Executive Producer	$97.5k	2015
No Score Yet	She's The Best Thing In It	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy	Actor	—	2013
51%	Promised Land	Sue Thomason	$7.7M	2013
65%	This Must Be The Place	Jane	$0.2M	2012
No Score Yet	Rebels With A Cause	Actor	—	2012
79%	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Captain Chantal Dubois	$216.4M	2012
93%	Moonrise Kingdom	Mrs. Bishop	$45.6M	2012
35%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Charlotte	$352.4M	2011
No Score Yet	The Botany of Desire	Narrator	—	2009
79%	Burn After Reading	Linda Litzke	$60.4M	2008
77%	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day	Miss Guinevere Pettigrew Executive Producer	$12.3M	2008
72%	Friends With Money	Jane	$13.3M	2006
9%	Aeon Flux	Handler	$25.9M	2005
69%	North Country	Glory	$18.4M	2005
72%	Something's Gotta Give	Zoe Barry	$121.5M	2003
68%	Laurel Canyon	Jane	$3.6M	2003
47%	City by the Sea	Michelle	$22.4M	2002
80%	Searching for Debra Winger	Actor	—	2002
81%	The Man Who Wasn't There	Doris	$7.5M	2001
No Score Yet	Short Fuse	Actor	—	2001
67%	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy	Actor	—	2001
81%	Wonder Boys	Sara	—	2000
89%	Almost Famous	Elaine Miller	$31.8M	2000
No Score Yet	Talk of Angels	Conlon	—	1998
62%	Madeline	Miss Clavel	—	1998
No Score Yet	Johnny Skidmarks	Alice	—	1998
48%	Paradise Road	Dr. Verstak	—	1997
No Score Yet	Hidden in America	Gus	—	1996
94%	Lone Star	Bunny	—	1996
74%	Primal Fear	Dr. Molly Arrington	—	1996
93%	Fargo	Marge Gunderson	—	1996
39%	Beyond Rangoon	Andy Bowman	—	1995
64%	Palookaville	June	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Good Old Boys	Eve Calloway	—	1995
95%	Short Cuts	Betty Weathers	—	1993
No Score Yet	Crazy In Love	Clare	—	1992
11%	Passed Away	Nora	—	1992
25%	The Butcher's Wife	Grace	—	1991
91%	Barton Fink	Voice of Stage Actress	—	1991
91%	Miller's Crossing	Actor	—	1990
83%	Hidden Agenda	Ingrid Jessner	—	1990
83%	Darkman	Julie Hastings	—	1990
17%	Chattahoochee	Mae	—	1989
No Score Yet	Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo	Brigette	—	1989
89%	Mississippi Burning	Mrs. Pell	—	1988
91%	Raising Arizona	Dot	—	1987
No Score Yet	Scandal Sheet	Actor	—	1985
94%	Blood Simple	Abby	—	1984

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013	Guest	2017 2001
96%	Olive Kitteridge 2014	Olive Kitteridge Executive Producer Producer	2014
No Score Yet	The Simpsons 1989	Voice	2006
No Score Yet	American Experience 1988	Voice	2001

Quotes from Frances McDormand's Characters

Officer Olson:	Found somethin' there, Chief?
Marge Gunderson:	No, I just think I'm gonna barf!

Marge Gunderson:

And it's a beautiful day...

Marge Gunderson:

Prowler needs a jump.

Marge Gunderson:

Prowler needs a jump.

Jane:

Who plans on a change of plan? That would be sort of paranoid, don't you think?

Miss Clavel:

Something is not right!

Marge Gunderson:

Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me! I'm just doing my job here.

Charlotte:

We believe the Russians deduced that the rod was a fissionable fuel assembly, believed they had it mastered, and tried to harness it at Chernobyl.

Optimus Prime:	The ship's name was the Ark. I watched it escape Cybertron myself. It was carrying an Autobot technology which would've won us the war. And it's captain.
Charlotte:	Who is it's captain?
Optimus Prime:	The great Sentinel Prime, the technology's inventor. He was commander of the Autobots before me. It's imperative that I find it before the Decepticons learn of its location. Our Autobot spacecraft has the ability to get there. And. . . you must pray it's in time.

Charlotte:	Don't call me a ma'am. I'm not a ma'am.
Carly Miller:	Well, you're a woman aren't you?

Miss Guinevere Pettigrew:

Not everything comes along exactly when you want it.

Marge Gunderson:	Hiya, Lou. Whoo! What ya got there?
Officer Olson:	Margie, thought you might need a little warm-up.
Marge Gunderson:	Thanks a bunch. ... So, what's the deal? Gary says triple homicide.
Marge Gunderson:	Thanks a bunch. So, what's the deal? Gary says triple homicide.

Glory Dodge:

Before your law firm hired you did they put your feet up in the air and look in your insides?

Mrs. Bishop:	I'm sorry, Walt.
Mr. Bishop:	It's not your fault. (pause) Which injuries are you apologizing for, specifically?
Mrs. Bishop:	Specifically? Whichever ones still hurt.
Mr. Bishop:	Half of those were self-inflicted.

Mrs. Bishop:	I beg your pardon. Are you a lawyer?
Scout Master Ward:	No, maâ??am, but
Scout Master Ward:	No, ma'am, but
Mrs. Bishop:	Well, I am!

Mrs. Bishop:	Does it concern you that your daughterâ??s just run away from home?
Mrs. Bishop:	Does it concern you that your daughter's just run away from home?
Mr. Bishop:	Thatâ??s a loaded question.
Mr. Bishop:	That's a loaded question.

Captain Chantel DuBois:

Silly little animals, you should never left the forest. Now you deal with me!

Captain Chantel DuBois:

Well played Lion. Game on.

Alex:	This is right place for Animals like you(saying to Dubois)
Alex:	This is right place for animals like you. [saying to Dubois]
Captain Chantal Dubois:	Roar
Captain Chantal Dubois:	Roar.

Marge Gunderson:	No, I - Mike - wyncha sit over there, I'd prefer that.
Mike Yanagita:	Huh? Oh, okay, I'm sorry.
Marge Gunderson:	No, just so I can see ya, ya know. Don't have to turn my neck.

Marge Gunderson:

I'd be very surprised if our suspect was from Brainerd.

Elaine Miller:

Rock stars have kidnapped my son.

Marge Gunderson:

I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.

Mrs. Bishop:	Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Mr. Bishop:	Why?

Captain Sharp:	Did you hit him?
Mrs. Bishop:	No, he drove into a ditch.

Mr. Bishop:	What am I looking at here?
Mrs. Bishop:	He does watercolors. Landscapes, a few nudes.

Captain Chantal Dubois:

Poor animals now you deal with me.

Captain Chantel DuBois:

You fool how could you let them get away!

Captain Chantel DuBois:

When in Rome... VIVA LA FRANCE!

Charlotte:

I don't care who you are. If you breathe a word of what you see in here, you will do time for treason.

Captain Chantel DuBois:

Voila! Giraffe at 12 o' clock.

Mr. Bishop:	What am I lookin' at?
Mrs. Bishop:	He does water colors. Mostly landscapes, but a few nudes.

Marge Gunderson:

So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don'tcha know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it.

Linda Litzke:

Dribble? Dribble?

Linda Litzke:

Organs?

Mrs. Bishop:	Frances, where the hell are you?
Mr. Bishop:	I'm up here!
Mrs. Bishop:	Does it concern that your daughter has run away from home?
Mr. Bishop:	... That's a loaded question.
Mr. Bishop:	That's a loaded question.

Marge Gunderson:

And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?

Sam Witwicky:	The whole thing has been a set-up since the beginning! The Decepticons wanted Optimus to find Sentinel because he was the only one who could revive him.
Charlotte:	But we have the space bridge...
Sam Witwicky:	Mearing, you have 5 pillars- I just learned they that have hundreds! You're doing exactly what they wanted you to do! What do you need me say to you? The decepticons are coming for Sentinel?

Peyton Westlake/Darkman:	Don't look at me...
Julie Hastings:	I want to look.

Dino:	(About Optimus) He's in a bad mood, he's not talking to anybody today.
Dino:	[about Optimus] He's in a bad mood, he's not talking to anybody today.
Charlotte:	What is this, the silent treatment?
Ironhide:	We've seen that and this is not that.
Que:	No definitely not!
Ironhide:	This is worse. Prime, make something of yourself! (Hits optimus who transforms into his robot mode) He's pissed.
Ironhide:	This is worse. Prime, make something of yourself! [hits optimus who transforms into his robot mode] He's pissed.

Elaine Miller:	I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.
Elaine Miller:	I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke. [Elaine hangs up]

Charlotte:

It's a work perk.

Dot:	Reilly!!!, You take that diaper off your head and put it back on your sister!
Dot:	Reilly, You take that diaper off your head and put it back on your sister.

Mrs. Pell:

If you're ever in Des Moines, don't send me a postcard.

Linda Litzke:	That's Fantastic!!!
Linda Litzke:	That's fantastic.

Marge Gunderson:	Marge Gunderson: Say, Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?
Marge Gunderson:	Say, Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?
Officer Olson:	Yah that's a good one
Officer Olson:	Yah that's a good one.