Frances Conroy

Frances Conroy took to the stage at a young age and devoted a major part of her career to it. Quickly, John Houseman offered her a role in Othello and encouraged her to try her luck in Los Angeles where she joined the Juilliard School and took part in dramatic workshops, given by the greatest. It is also thanks to these performances in works of classical literature that Woody Allen relied on her to play a Shakespearean actress in Manhattan in 1979. The New York director contacted her again for Another Woman.

If the small screen allows her to make a few small appearances, Conroy applies herself to carefully selecting her projects ... And yet, the role of her career, she does not see it coming! When her agent offers her to cast Six Feet Under, a family drama in the middle of the funeral directors, the actress hesitates, considering herself much too young to be the matriarch of the Fisher tribe. But Alan Ball is not of this opinion and he offers him the opportunity to play Ruth, for 5 seasons. The widow, emotionally fragile and on edge, becomes a very prominent protagonist of American television.

His interpretation, hailed with an Emmy and a Golden Globein 2004, and the quality of the HBO show, allow it to stand out and attract proposals. She notably supports the independent film Broken Flowers by Jim Jarmusch with Bill Murray, and Martin Scorsese assigns her a small role in Aviator. She also rubs shoulders with Al Pacino for Le Temps d'un Weekend, a remake of Parfum de Femme.

But when the HBO adventure comes to an end, the proposals are scarce: his character has left too much mark on the minds and producers find it difficult to imagine him otherwise. She still participates in several series, from Desperate Housewives for a few episodes, to How I Met Your Mother, in the skin of Barney Stinson's mother.

In 2011, Ryan Murphy chose her to join the cast of American Horror Story. Captivated by her disturbing gaze (colorless iris after a car accident), the showrunner metamorphoses her into Moira O'Hara, the ghost housekeeper of the haunted house. Her interpretation, noticed by the fans, allows her to return to the asylum in season 2, then to be promoted as a regular in the third season of the anthology where she dons the extravagant costume of Myrtle Snow, one of the witches advice.

These characters help to reaffirm his talent with the public and producers. This is particularly the case of those of the Hulu channel, which include her in the cast of Casual to interpret the mother of the protagonists. In 2016, the actress was also featured in the horror series The Mist, adapted from the famous Stephen King novel. She joined the small town of Brighton in the United States, plunged into a fog populated by disturbing creatures ...

Margaux Boichard