Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand (born June 23, 1957, Gibson City, United States), aged 69, is an American actress. McDormand's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Picture and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Frances McDormand’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Frances
Frances McDormand’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Frances in the U.S.?
#318
US rank in 2025
~600,721
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1957, Frances came 113th among girls and 1,256th among boys, carried by 4,094 American girls and 39 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frances’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on F (6) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frances’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
33 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Frances apart
Frances McDormand took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture in 1993, at 36.
The classrooms behind this chart: Yale School of Drama and Bethany College.
The working life starts in 1982, at 25.
The family line: married Joel Coen and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Frances McDormand: Bethany College (West Virginia) alumni, Best Female Lead Independent Spirit Award winners and Actresses from Chicago.
Alan Turing (1912) and Zinedine Zidane (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale School of Drama, Bethany College and Monessen High School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actress (1997), Academy Award for Best Picture (2021) and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (2011)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
- Working from
- 1982
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 83
What the chart says
Frances, according to the stars
Core essence
Frances feels the room before entering it. The core of Frances is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Frances, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Frances is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Frances needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Frances wants to be loved
Frances wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Frances gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Frances creates
How Frances makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Frances creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Frances is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Frances is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Frances fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Frances's birth date. Working below.
Where Frances sits
Six lines
Frances’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Frances McDormand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gibson City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Gibson City that night
Computed for 40.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Gibson City was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 79.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Gibson City at all: they sit past the −49.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 17% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Gibson City, United States
- Lives in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as Frances McDormand's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frances McDormand: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frances's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Frances McDormand's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 23, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Frances McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 33
Life Path 33Teaches by carrying everyone's load.
Frances McDormand's birth date, June 23, 1957, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 33 means →What stands out in Frances’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frances McDormand's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Frances McDormand combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Frances’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarssquareNeptune1.1° to 1.8° orb
Frances’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb
Frances’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Frances’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.1° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune5.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 1.8° to 13.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Frances’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 16°54′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 13°27′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 21°29′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 14°25′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 3°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.1°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.2°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.7°
Frances’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Frances’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
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Frances’s cards
Computed from June 23, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frances’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q204299 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Frances McDormand at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frances McDormand.
Quick answers about Frances McDormand’s chart
- How old is Frances McDormand?
- Frances McDormand is 69 years old, born June 23, 1957 in Gibson City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Frances McDormand?
- Frances McDormand is a Cancer: born June 23, 1957, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Frances McDormand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1957 birth.
- What is Frances McDormand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What is Frances McDormand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Frances McDormand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Frances McDormand's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
