She has spoken openly about her upbringing and the experiences that got her to where she is today.
Here’s what we know.
McDormand was born in 1957in Gibson, Illinois, and her birth name was actually Cynthia Smith.
And Frances wasn’t the only child that the couple took in.
“They even took in stray cats,” she told the outlet.
When she was a teenager, Frances had the chance to meet her birth mother but declined the offer.
She has since described the woman as “white trash.”
“I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual and white-trash American,” she told the Times.
“My parents were not white trash.
My birth mother was white trash.”
But the McDormands, she described in the same interview as “solid, working-class, educated people.”
“And now I want to get some perspective.
she said (perShowbiz Cheat Sheet).
“OK, look around everybody.
Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed.
Don’t talk to us about it at the parties tonight.
I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen: ‘inclusion rider.'”
“I couldn’t commit to Christianity.
But nature: I could always commit to that, and the power of it,” she toldVogue.
In his older years, Pedro has followed in his parents’ footsteps and sought a career in Hollywood.
