Frances Hardman Conroy[1][2] (born March 15, 1953) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under (2001–2005), for which she won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and received four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She is also known for playing the older version of Moira O'Hara in season one of the television anthology series American Horror Story, which garnered Conroy her first Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television nomination, and as well a Primetime Emmy Awards nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Conroy subsequently portrayed The Angel of Death, Myrtle Snow, Gloria Mott, Mama Polk, Bebe Babbitt, and Belle Noir on seven further seasons of the show: Asylum, Coven, Freak Show, Roanoke, Cult, Apocalypse, and Double Feature, respectively. Conroy is the fourth actor who has appeared in most seasons of the show. For her performances in Coven & Double Feature, she was nominated again for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
She starred as Dawn in the first season of the Hulu original series Casual, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for its first season. In 2017, she starred as Nathalie Raven in The Mist. In 2019, she starred in Joker as the titular character's mother. In 2021, she had a supporting role in The Power of the Dog.
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Frances Hardman Conroy (born March 15, 1953) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under...
actress FrancesConroy's acting credits; including her appearances in film, television, and the theatre. With over 100 acting credits to her name, Conroy is...
frequently, with each having appeared in nine seasons, followed by FrancesConroy and Denis O'Hare who both appear in eight; Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd...
list of awards and nominations received by FrancesConroy throughout her stage and acting career. During Conroy's stage and acting career, she has been awarded...
Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabelle Nélisse, Common, FrancesConroy, and John Heard. It tells the story about Fox's own childhood sexual...
FrancesConroy, American actress Frances Cornford (1886–1960), English poet Frances Lewis Brackett Damon (1857–1939), American poet, writer Frances Davidson...
2001, and received a nomination in 2002 in the Lead Actress category. FrancesConroy won for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2003. For the Screen Actors...
has a son. The film stars Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, FrancesConroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, Mark Webber, Chloë Sevigny...
fellow mental patient Erin Kelly as Grace, a fellow mental patient FrancesConroy as Dolly Walker, Madison's mother Will Patton as Mr. Walker Imogen Poots...
and starring Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis Cameron, Patricia Clarkson, FrancesConroy, Sinead Cusack, John Glover, Bill Pullman, Kevin Spacey and Macaulay...
Simmons as Stu Kopenhafer Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Blanche Gunderson FrancesConroy as Trudy Van Uuden Jimena Hoyos as Cathy Ordena Stephens-Thompson as...
Dorothy. After Dorothy's journey, she returns for the Muppets' show. FrancesConroy voices Glinda in Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz and Tom and Jerry:...
as Hickory / The Tin Man Todd Stashwick as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion FrancesConroy as Aunt Em, Glinda Laraine Newman as Miss Almira Gulch / The Wicked...
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