About Frances Conroy
Frances Hardman Conroy is an American former 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. During the series' run, Conroy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2004. 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. She is best known for her critically acclaimed work on HBO's original drama series Six Feet Under, which she starred in from 2001 until the series' end in 2005, playing the volatile family matriarch Ruth Fisher.
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