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Frances McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress.
Biography
Early life
McDormand was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of three children adopted by Canadian parents Vernon McDormand (a Disciples of Christ pastor) and Noreen, a now retired registered nurse and receptionist; she has a sister, Dorothy A. McDormand, who is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and chaplain, as well as two other siblings, all of whom were adopted by the McDormands, who had no biological children. As her father specialized in restoring failing Disciples congregations, her family moved frequently, and McDormand lived in several small Bible Belt towns in Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee, before finally settling in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb of Monessen, where she graduated from high school in 1975. She attended Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, and earned a B.A. in Theater in 1979.In 1982, McDormand earned an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Drama. She was roommates with Holly Hunter at the time. Her first professional acting job was in Trinidad, performing in a play written by poet Derek Walcott and funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
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