FRANCES CONROY can be seen this year in the fifth and final season of HBO’s celebrated series Six Feet Under. She has starred as Ruth, the matriarch of the Fisher family, in every episode of the program. For her portrayal, she 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 also been nominated for an Emmy Award for her work.
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 telefilm Murder in a Small Town (cowritten by and starring 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 (as Katharine Hepburn’s mother); Terence Davies’ The Neon Bible; Martin Brest’s Academy Award-winning Scent of a Woman; Frank Oz’ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Pitof’s Catwoman; and Anand Tucker’s upcoming Shopgirl, written by and starring Steve Martin.
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