Frances Conroy
 (Camille Bailey)

For her portrayal of Ruth in HBO’s Six Feet Under, Frances Conroy has been honored with a Golden Globe® and a Screen Actors Guild Award®, as well as four Emmy® nominations.   Her additional work in television includes such shows as Law & Order, Cosby, Alex Haley’s miniseries Queen and the television movie Murder in a Small Town.   Her many theatre credits include the Lincoln Center production of Our Town, first performed on Broadway and then taped for PBS’s Great Performances, and Edward Albee’s The Lady from Dubuque and Three Tall Women.   She received an Obie for her work in Arthur Miller’s The Last Yankee and a Tony nomination for Miller’s The Ride Down Mt. Morgan.   She has also received four Drama Desk Award nominations, winning the award for her performance in David Hare’s The Secret Rapture.

Conroy’s numerous film appearances include the Woody Allen films Manhattan, Another Woman and Crimes and Misdemeanors; Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator; Pitof’s Catwoman, Wayne Wang’s Maid in Manhattan, Terence Davies’ The Neon Bible; Martin Brest’s Academy Award®-winning Scent of a Woman; Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers; and Frank Oz’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.   She most recently appeared with Nicolas Cage in The Wicker Man.