Frances Conroy

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Frances Conroy
PaleyFest in 2014
Born
Frances Hardman Conroy

(1953-03-15) March 15, 1953 (age 71)
EducationDickinson College
Juilliard School (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active1976–present
Spouse
Jan Munroe
(m. 1992)

Frances Hardman Conroy

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.

Early life

Conroy was born March 15, 1953,

Neighborhood Playhouse and the Juilliard School. She was a member of Juilliard's Drama Division Group 6 (1973–1977)[5] which also included Kevin Conroy (no relation), Kelsey Grammer, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Robin Williams.[6]

Career

During the 1970s, she performed regularly with

Tony and four Drama Desk Award nominations (including a Drama Desk win for The Secret Rapture). Conroy had a small role in the 1984 movie Falling in Love, as a waitress in a swanky restaurant. In 1988, she appeared as the elder daughter of Burt Lancaster's dying patriarch in Rocket Gibraltar. That same year, she appeared in supporting roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Another Woman. In 1992, she played the political science teacher Christine Downes in the film Scent of a Woman
.

2001–05: Six Feet Under

She is best known for her critically acclaimed work on

Ruth Fisher. During the series' run, Conroy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2004. She was also nominated for four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series awards, without winning. Along with the cast of the show, they were awarded two times in 2003 and 2004 the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, as well as Conroy winning the individual 2004 award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.[8]
The series ended in 2005, having aired 63 original episodes.

2005–10: Desperate Housewives and How I Met Your Mother

In 2008, she landed a guest role in ABC's Desperate Housewives as Virginia Hildebrand, a rich woman who tries to buy the Solis family's love.

Along with many guest appearances on television in the mid-2000s, she was cast in a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother, as Barney Stinson's mother Loretta Stinson. And in 2010, Conroy portrayed the character Angie Dinkley in the animated show Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

In 2010, Conroy played Madylyn, the wife of Robert De Niro's character Jack Mabrey, in the John Curran thriller Stone. In the same year, Conroy played the recurring role of Peggy Haplin in the short-lived ABC drama series Happy Town.

2011–present: American Horror Story and The Power of the Dog

Conroy in March 2012

In 2011, she was cast in a new drama series for

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
category.

For the second season, dubbed

Myrtle Snow
, a member of the Witches Council in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was subsequently nominated for a sixth Primetime Emmy Award and her second nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

In 2014, she returned for the fourth season of the series, titled

Gloria Mott, a wealthy woman whose psychotic, spoiled son wants to join the freak show. Conroy later returned in the 2016 season, Roanoke
, as a cannibal. As of 2015, Conroy starred as Dawn on the Hulu original series Casual. In July 2017, it was announced via Twitter that Conroy would appear in American Horror Story: Cult, marking her sixth appearance on the show.[citation needed].

In 2018, Conroy reprised her respective roles as Myrtle Snow and Moira O'Hara from Coven and Murder House in

Joker, as the character's mother.[10]

She returned to the American Horror Story franchise in 2021 with

Critics' Choice Awards nomination as a member of the cast.[12][13]

In 2023, Conroy voiced The Director in the animated feature film Nimona.

Personal life

In 1980, she married Jonathan Furst;[14] they divorced in the late 1980s, and Conroy subsequently married actor Jan Munroe in 1992.[15] Conroy once had a car accident which damaged her right eye; although the cornea was fixed through eye surgery, the surgery decolored the eye in the process.[16]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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  3. ^ Rose, Mike (March 15, 2022). "Today's famous birthdays list for March 15, 2022 includes celebrities Bret Michaels, Eva Longoria". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
  4. ^ "Paid Notice - Deaths CONROY, OSSIE RAY". The New York Times. September 27, 1997.
  5. The Juilliard School. October 2007. Archived from the original
    on November 11, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  6. ^ "Alumni News". The Juilliard School. September 2007. Archived from the original on November 11, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  7. ^ "The Skin of Our Teeth". June 29, 1998.
  8. ^ "The 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Winners and Nominees". Screen Actors Guild Awards. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
  9. ^ Murphy, Ryan (August 7, 2018). "Guess who's coming back for AHS APOCALYPSE? Taissa Farmiga, Gabourey Sidibe, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy and....Stevie Nicks. So thrilled the family is together again! #AHSApocalypse".
  10. ^ "Robert De Niro and Frances Conroy join DC's Joker origin film". flickeringmyth. July 24, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  11. ^ Warner, Sam (February 9, 2021). "American Horror Story's Ryan Murphy confirms return of Frances Conroy in season 10". Digital Spy. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  12. ^ Blaricom, Mirjana Van. "25th Satellite Awards Nominees for Motion Pictures and Television Announced | International Press Academy". Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  13. ^ Haylock, Zoe (December 22, 2021). "2022 Critics' Choice Awards Nominations Led by Belfast and West Side Story". Vulture. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  14. ^ Cummings, Judith (October 6, 1980). "Notes on People". The New York Times. p. M6.
  15. ^ "Frances Conroy Biography". TV Guide. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  16. ^ Craig, Jo (August 26, 2021). "American Horror Story: Frances Conroy's Discolored Eye Explained". HITC. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

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