Frances Conroy Biography

Birthday: 1953-11-13
Place of Birth: Monroe, Georgia
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
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Wiki Biography: Frances Conroy is a graduate of the Juilliard Drama Division and a member of The Acting Company. She recently won a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the Broadway hit "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan." Her other Broadway credits include "Ring Round the Moon", "The Little Foxes", "The Rehearsal" (Drama Desk Nominee), "Broken Glass", "In the Summer House" (Drama Desk Nominee) and "The Secret Rapture" (Drama Desk Nominee). Conroy's numerous Off- Broadway plays include "The Dinner Party", "The Skin of Our Teeth", "The Last Yankee" and "Othello" (Drama Desk Nominee). IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
Mini Biography Veteran stage actress Frances Conroy was introduced and encouraged by her parents to explore the elements of theater. Born in Georgia in 1953, she attended high school in Long Island and experienced classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse as a teenager. The pale, blue-eyed redhead also studied at Juilliard where she was taught by theater greats John Houseman and Marian Seldes. Following potent dramatic roles in such classical productions as "Mother Courage...and Her Children," "King Lear," "All's Well That Ends Well," "Measure for Measure" and "Othello" (as Desdemona) in the late 70s, she made her Broadway debut with "The Lady from Dubuque" in 1980. She went on to earn a well-respected name for herself under the Broadway and off-Broadway lights throughout the 1980s in such esteemed plays as "Our Town" (as Mrs. Gibbs), "The Little Foxes (as Birdie) and "In the Summer House." She also appeared with Seldes in the well-received plays "Ring Round the Moon" and "A Bright Room Called Day." She won a Drama Desk Award for "The Secret Rapture" and an Obie for "The Last Yankee." In 2000 she received the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony nomination for "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan."
An actress of subtle power, great depth and astonishing versatility, she has both an aloof serenity and faintly sad/sensitive ambiance that makes her all the more mysterious and intriguing. She came out to California in 1985 at the invitation of director Houseman and appeared in more theater plays, including "Richard III," at San Diego's Globe Theater. She also earned a sprinkling of generally overlooked film and TV parts, including small parts in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), Another Woman (1988) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).
Showing a distinct flair for the offbeat, nothing really pushed the envelope for her on screen quite like her series' turn as the dowdy, emotionally frail undertaker's widow in the cult hit TV series "Six Feet Under" (2001). During the five-season run she won both Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards and was nominated four times for an Emmy. Since then she has been offered a number of interesting, more prominent parts in such movies as Die, Mommie, Die! (2003), Catwoman (2004), The Aviator (2004) and Shopgirl (2005). In 1992 she married actor/husband Jan Munroe, an L.A. performance artist. After a six-year absence, Frances returned to the theater in a 2006 production of "Pyrenees" by David Greig at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles.
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Alex Haley's Queen | Mrs. Benson | 1993 | |
Maid in Manhattan | 2002 | Comedy | |
Six Feet Under | Ruth Fisher | 2004 | Drama |
A Perfect Day | Camille | 2006 - 2006 | |
Mike Birbiglia's Secret Public Journal | Kathy | 2008 | |
Harirah | Moira O'Hara | 2009 | Comedy |
Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated | 2010 | Animation | |
Happy Town | Peggy Haplin | 2010 | Drama |
American Horror Story | Moira O'Hara | 2011 | Drama |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Six Feet Under | Ruth Fisher | 0000 | Drama |
Stone | Madylyn | 1974 | |
Amazing Grace and Chuck | 1987 | ||
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | Comedy | |
Rocket Gibraltar | 1988 | 0 | |
Another Woman | 1988 | ||
Billy Bathgate | 1991 | Comedy, 0, 0 | |
Scent of a Woman | 1992 | ||
Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | 0, Biography | |
The Adventures of Huck Finn | 1993 | 0, 0, 0 | |
Developing | 1994 | ||
Angela | Anne's Mother | 1995 | Drama |
The Crucible | Ann Putnam | 1996 | Drama, History |
Maid in Manhattan | 2002 | 0, 0 | |
Showboy | 2002 | ||
Die Mommie Die! | 2003 | Comedy | |
The Aviator | Mrs. Hepburn | 2004 | Drama |
Shopgirl | Catherine Buttersfield | 2005 | Drama, Romance |
The Wicker Man | Dr. T.H. Moss | 2006 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
Ira & Abby | Lynne Willoughby | 2007 | |
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | Miss Greythorne | 2007 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy |
Humboldt County | 2008 | ||
The Tale of Despereaux | Antoinette | 2008 | 0, Drama, 0 |
Love Happens | Eloise's Mom | 2009 | Drama, Romance |
Waking Madison | Dolly | 2011 | |
Chasing Ghosts | Dara | 2014 | Comedy, Drama, Family |
Making the Rules | Mother | 2014 | Drama, Romance |
No Pay. Nudity | Andrea | 2015 | Comedy |
Welcome to Happiness | Claiborne | 2015 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |