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For her portrayal of Ruth, Frances Conroy has been honored with a Golden Globe Award® and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as two additional Screen Actors Guild Awards shared with her fellow actors for the ensemble's collective work in the series. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award® as well.
Since graduating from The Juilliard School's Drama Division, Ms. Conroy's work encompasses stage, film and television. In addition to SIX FEET UNDER, her work in television has included such shows as LAW & ORDER, COSBY, Alex Haley's miniseries QUEEN (directed by John Erman) and the made for television film MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN (co-written by Gene Wilder, and directed by Joyce Chopra).
In the theatre, she was in the Lincoln Center production of OUR TOWN (with Spalding Gray and Eric Stoltz), first performed on Broadway and then taped for PBS' Great Performances.
Ms. Conroy's many other stage credits include Edward Albee's THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE and THREE TALL WOMEN. She received an OBIE Award for Arthur Miller's THE LAST YANKEE and a Tony Award nomination for the playwright's THE RIDE DOWN MT. MORGAN.
She has received four Drama Desk Award nominations, and garnered the award for David Hare's THE SECRET RAPTURE. She toured for two years with John Houseman's The Acting Company.
Ms. Conroy has appeared in numerous films among them three by Woody Allen (MANHATTAN, ANOTHER WOMAN and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS); Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR; Terence Davies' THE NEON BIBLE; Martin Brest's Academy Award®-winning SCENT OF A WOMAN; Frank Oz' DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS; the French director Pitof's CATWOMAN; and Steve Martin's upcoming SHOPGIRL directed by Anand Tucker.
Ms. Conroy will next be seen in Jim Jarmusch's BROKEN FLOWERS that will premiere at The Cannes Film Festival.
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Mortuary Fact
The tombstone of Mel Blanc-the voice of Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig-is inscribed "That's All Folks." |
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