Frances Louise McDormand  won the Academy Award for Best Actress in
1996 for her role as police chief Marge Gunderson in the Joel and Ethan
Coen film Fargo. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her
performance this year in Good People. McDormand was nominated for the
Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress three times for her role in 
Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), and the film North
Country (2005). She has also been nominated for four Golden Globes,
three BAFTA Awards, and an Emmy Award. Frances McDormand has
been married to director Joel Coen since 1984. 

McDormand in Blood Simple (1984), the directorial debut of Joel and
Ethan Coen

Frances in Fargo

Meryl Streep has worked in theatre, television and film. She is widely regarded
as one of the most talented and respected actresses of the modern era. Streep
made her professional debut on stage in 1971’s The Playboy of Seville. Her
screen debut came in 1977 with the television movie The Deadliest Season. She
made her film debut with Julie. Successful roles soon followed such as The Deer
Hunter in 1978, which gave Meryl her first Oscar nomination and Kramer vs.Kramer
in 1979  which won her and Oscar. Streep later won an Academy Award for Best
Actress for her performance in Sophie’s Choice (1982). Meryl Streep has received
a total of 25 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven, more nominations than any
other actor in the history of the award. In 2004,she was awarded the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Meryl Streep with co-star Robert DeNiro in The Deer Hunter

2009

Actress Lindsay Jean Wagner was born near Pasadena, California. She later
moved with her parents to Portland, Oregon, where she attended David Douglas
High School and appeared in a number of school plays. She also studied at the
University of Oregon.  She is probably most widely known for her portrayal of
Jaime Sommers in the ABC/NBC television series The Bionic Woman, 1976-
1978.Wagner won an Emmy award for her work in the series. She has since 
maintained a lengthy career in a variety of other film and TV productions.

Jane Russell was one of Hollywood’s leading sex symbols in the 1940s and
1950s. She Moved from the Midwest to California, where she had her first film
role in 1943 with The Outlaw, a western film, directed by Howard Hughes. In 1947, Russell delved into music before returning to films. After starring in multiple films
in the 1950s, Russell again returned to music while completing several other
films in the 1960s. She starred in over 20 films throughout her career.
 

Promotional photos of Jane Russell from The Outlaw (1943)

John Stephen Goodman is a film, television, and stage actor. He is best known
for his role as Dan Conner on the ABC-TV series Roseanne (1988–1997) for
which he won a Best Actor Golden Globe award in 1993. Goodman is also noted
for appearances in the films of the Coen brothers, with prominent roles in Raising
Arizona (1987) Barton Fink (1991) The Big Lebowski (1998) and O Brother Where
Art Thou? (2000). Goodman has also done voice work for many films by Disney. He
has made more than 50 films and has won two American Comedy Awards.

John Goodman and Roseanne Barr in “Roseanne”

 Goodman in The Big Lebowski

John in Arachnophobia (1990)

Goodman as Fred in The Flintstones (1994)