Marge Gunderson

Marge Gunderson is a fictional character from the film Fargo (1996). She is portrayed by Frances McDormand. The character was ranked #33 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains, as a hero. McDormand also won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The film is set in the year of 1987, in winter. Gunderson is happily married to a painter named Norm, and a seven months pregnant police chief from Brainerd, Minnesota. She is introduced in the film when awakened by a call to investigate a triple homicide in her jurisdiction. The character is much beloved by fans for her no-nonsense approach to her work, obvious competence, and apparent indefatigable optimism in human nature, despite the horrors she witnesses. Her...