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Marge Gunderson is a fictional character from the film Fargo (1996). She is portrayed by Frances...

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 cheerful perkiness can be seen to be a useful tool during her interviews with various suspects and witnesses, and provides a counterpoint when the subject becomes less than cooperative, causing her dropping tone and hardening affect to be very striking. Her monologue to a captured malfeasant is the climax to her character's study in the film. In her clipped pronunciation and phrasing she lists off the events that led to his capture and ignominy, and