We know next to nothing about the private lives of the Coen Brothers. That's because they're fiercely, well, private. It's only in the past few years that they've confirmed the extent of their collaborative process when making a film, now listed as co-directors where previously one took a producing credit and the other directing. The brothers write, direct, and produce their films jointly, they're Jewish, there's two years between them, and they grew up in Minnesota. Their mother was an art historian and their father an economist. They made Super 8 films as kids. That's about as far as the non-movie biography of the Coen Brothers reaches, to be honest. Except for the one addendum, which is that Joel Coen has been married to Frances McDormand since 1984. They met on the set of Blood Simple, the Coen's first film and McDormand's feature debut, and since then she's starred in a half dozen of their movies, from a cameo in Miller's Crossing to a supporting role in Raising Arizona to headlining Fargo as pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson. In reality the couple only have one kid, an adopted son from Paraguay named Pedro McDormand Coen (McDormand and her siblings were all adopted, too.) Which is pretty cool, honestly, since McDormand is always a good sign in a Coen Brothers film. Probably why she didn't turn up in The Ladykillers or Intolerable Cruelty.
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