Frances Conroy

Frances Conroy

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
Birthdaymars 15, 1953
BiographyFrances Hardman Conroy (born March 15, 1953) is a retired 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; this makes Conroy, along with Denis O'Hare, fourth among the actors who have appeared in most seasons of the show. For her performance in Coven, 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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Known For

American Horror Story
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American Horror Story

as Myrtle Snow
Casual
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Casual

as Dawn Cole
Six Feet Under
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Six Feet Under

as Ruth Fisher
Summer Camp Island
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Summer Camp Island

as Ms. Clarinet
The Mist
Ended

The Mist

as Nathalie Raven

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