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SHE’S the triple Oscar winner with a net worth of £22million, and one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood.
But Frances McDormand - who picked up her third Best Actress gong for her role in Nomadland last night - had a tough start in life.
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Frances McDormand picked up her third Best Actress Oscar last nightCredit: Reuters
Born into what she has previously called “white trash”, she was abandoned by her birth parents and adopted by an ultra-religious couple who “took in strays”.
Brought up as something of a Nomad herself, as her parents moved from church to church, Frances finally settled in Pennsylvania.
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“He gave me a little pearl-handled .38 for our first anniversary. Figured I’d better leave before I used it on him.” Is there another actor whose career boasts a more fitting opening line than Frances McDormand’s? Spoken in the opening moments of 1984’s Blood Simple, its sentiment is as hard-boiled as they come. But it’s the glints of romance – “pearl-handled”, “first anniversary” – that create the tension between glamour and gruffness which would become the actress’s trademark.
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