Frances Conroy

6.3	Listal rating

Stats

Age: 59, born 13 November 1953

Born and residing in: United States

Height: 5' 8"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Jan Munroe

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About: 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 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), Inna kobieta (1988) and Zbrodnie i wykroczenia (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 "Szesc stóp pod ziemia" (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), Kobieta-Kot (2004), 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. ... (more)

American (5), Actress (4), Broken Flowers (3), Sleepless In Seattle (3), Scent Of A Woman (3), Manhattan (3), Six Feet Under (3), The Aviator (3), Redhead (3), Irish (3), Latvian (2), Born 1953 (2), Female (2), Cool (2), Great (2), American Horror Story (1), Pale (1), White (1), Blue Eyes (1), Blonde (1)

Movies

1. The Aviator (2004)

Rating:

6.9

2349 Watched

2. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Rating:

6.3

1457 Watched

3. Catwoman (2004)

Rating:

3.7

1295 Watched

4. Manhattan (1979)

Rating:

908 Watched

5. Scent of a Woman (1992)

Rating:

7.5

1111 Watched

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TV

1. How I Met Your Mother (2005)

Rating:

7.9

2052 Watched

2. Desperate Housewives (2004)

Rating:

6.4

2074 Watched

3. ER (1994)

Rating:

6.7

1464 Watched

4. Six Feet Under (2001)

Rating:

7.6

1141 Watched

5. American Horror Story (2011)

Rating:

7.8

485 Watched

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" I must admit...I've never thought of putting Frances Conroy on this list. But after seeing her amazing work in "American Horror Story" and "Broken Flowers" I've completely changed my mind about her. She's probably one of the most underrated actresses I've ever come across of."