Frances Conroy

Frances Hardman Conroy is an American 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. Conroy is the fourth actor who has appeared in most seasons of the show. For her performances in Coven & Double Feature, she was nominated again for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

15 March 1953

Born on the same birth day (15 March): Archibald Menzies • Chi Cheng (athlete) • Fadil Hoxha • Jai Courtney • Jimmy Swaggart • Jon Jay • Lightnin' Hopkins • Macdonald Carey • March 15 • Mike Love • Naoko Takeuchi • Park Overall • Sérgio Vieira de Mello • Tavon Austin

Born in the same month (March 1953): Chaka Khan • Filemon Lagman • Franz Wright • Kazuo Kitagawa • M. K. Stalin • Melchior Ndadaye • Michael Sandel • Paweł Janas • Ricky Wilson (guitarist) • Robert Fox (producer) • Robyn Hitchcock • Tokyo Sexwale