See Frances McDormand and Joel Coen's Rare Family Photos as the Oscar-Winning Couple Celebrate 42 Years of Marriage

Frances McDormandandJoel Coenhave been a happy family for over four decades.

The power couple — with eightAcademy Awardsbetween them — married on April 1, 1984, a year after they met at her audition for his filmBlood Simple. In 1995, they adopted their son Pedro from Paraguay and raised him out of the spotlight.

"As a mother, you live on the edge of disaster," McDormand told theBelfast Telegraphin 2018. "You just do. I didn't give birth to my son, I met him at 6 months old, but from the minute I held him and smelled him, I knew it was my job to keep him alive."

Although the couple keeps their home life relatively private, the actress has brought Pedro to public events like film festivals and the Oscars afterparty (after she won her second Best Actress trophy).

As McDormand and Coen celebrate their 42nd anniversary, see the parents' rare photos with their beloved son.

To Your Benefit

Coen and McDormand had a family night out with Pedro in 2004 at the Calhoun School dedication and gala benefit in New York City.

The actress, looking at her husband and son with adoration, previously toldThe Tampa Bay Timesin 2000: "The reason I was born was to introduce Joel and Pedro together. The first time I saw them together I knew that's why I was born."

Got His Stripes

Prior to a 2005 event hosted by Coen and his brotherEthan, McDormand and Pedro were all smiles with producer Jay Allison and The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva.

Yes, Chef!

Inside the event, Pedro donned a white chef's jacket as the mother and son prepped grilled cheeses.

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All Grown Up

At the opening night party for her 2011 Broadway playGood People, McDormand received support from Pedro, now a teenager.

When in Rome

The three made a rare public appearance as a family at the 2015 Rome Film Festival, where the couple was set to speak during an onstage conversation.

Thanks to the Academy

Following her second Best Actress win in 2018 forThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, she shared her trophy with Pedro at the Governors Ball.

She revealed in a 2017New York Timesinterview that Pedro, then 24, had become a personal trainer and an occasional grip on Coen's film sets. (As of 2020, he works in public relations.)

"He lives four blocks away from our apartment in New York," the star toldThe Timesin 2017. "I run into him on the street, which is so fantastic."

Rest Your Head

She brought Pedro as her plus-one to the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards, and though he might be out of the house, McDormand and Coen are never too far away from their son.

Speaking toVoguein 2020, she revealed that Pedro had inherited her love of fashion.

"It's kind of like a sport for us," she said. "Shopping is what he and I do together."

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This day in history: Soap opera General Hospital premieres

April 1st is known to many as April Fools' Day, but for television fans, it was the daythe small screengot serious about drama. On this day in 1963, two of the most influential medical soap operas in history made their debut on national television:General HospitalandThe Doctors.

Both shows chose a hospital as their primary setting, which was a relatively new concept for thesoap opera genreat the time. By focusing on the lives of doctors, nurses, and patients, these programs were able to blend professional medical crises with intense personal drama.

A soap opera is a long-running TV or radio drama that reflects a set of ongoing, melodramatic storylines, high emotional drama, and complex relationships.The Doctors,premiered on NBC, was set in the fictional Hope Memorial Hospital. For many years, it was a staple of the network's daytime lineup, known for its dedicated fan base and its focus on the moral and romantic dilemmas of its medical staff.

On the same day,General Hospitalpremiered on ABC. Set in the fictional Port Charles, New York. In its early years, it wasn't the massive hit we know today. In fact, by the late1970s, the show faced the threat of cancellation due to low ratings. Afterproducer Gloria Montytook over everything changed. She introduced younger characters and worked on the storytelling. The most famous change was the introduction ofLuke and Laura. Their 1981 wedding remains the highest-rated hour in the history of American soap operas, with 30 million viewers tuning in.

The Doctorseventually left the air in1982,General Hospitalcontinued after that and broke many records, winning numerous Daytime Emmy Awards and launching the careers of several famous actors.

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General Hospital premiered in black-and-white as a half-hour show. It is now the longest-running American soap opera in production, holding the record for the most Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series with18 winsas of 2025.

The Doctors was initially designed as an anthology series where characters changed frequently, rather than a continuous serial. Due to low ratings (3.4) with the anthology format, it switched to a traditional continuing serial format in March 1964, which immediately doubled its ratings. The show ran for nearly 20 years until December 31, 1982.

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“Brady Bunch” star Mike Lookinland says he went 'off the rails' after the show ended

Mike Lookinlandneeded a break after playing youngest brother Bobby on five seasons of the squeaky clean family sitcomThe Brady Bunch. And he took it.

"I lived my childhood in my 20s, because I couldn't when I was a child," Lookinland said Monday onThe Real Brady Brospodcast. "And in my 20s, I had a car and money and freedom. I was fully off the rails."

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The actor was all of eight when the sitcom premiered on ABC in 1969. When it ended five seasons and five years later, he was just beginning his teenage years.

"I'm just thankful that not every man, woman, and child had a high-def camera in their pocket when I was 25, like they do now," Lookinland said, "because it would have ruined my life."

Christopher Knight, who portrayed middle brother Peter, said that their TV parents — actors Robert Reed, who played Mike, and Florence Henderson, the actress behind Carol — were a deterrent to the cast in behaving badly.

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'We didn't wanna disappoint Florence and Bob," he said. "I mean, that was the beginning of it. It's like there's certain people that you just don't wanna disappoint. I think that was stronger with me with those two than it was my own parents."

And yet at least some bad behavior has come to light in the more than 50 years since the first incarnation of the Bradys went off the air. For instance, actress Maureen McCormick, who played elder sister Marcia, infamously wrote about struggling with drug addiction and an eating disorder in the years after the show.

Lookinland and many of his costars were part of the show's many reunion projects, including the psychedelicBrady Bunch Variety Hour(1976-1977) andThe Bradysseries in the '90s. Other appearances, such as when he, Knight, and Barry Williams, who played eldest brother Greg, were onThe Masked Singerin 2022, have been rare.

Lookinland married Kelly Wermuth in 1987, and the couple shares two children. He struggled with alcoholism, but said in 2013 that hehad gotten sober.

He now leads a small business that makes decorative countertops, fireplaces, benches, and other concrete items.

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Trump administration makes its birthright citizenship case to the Supreme Court

Wednesday the Supreme Court hears arguments concerning one of President Trump's most important policy items: An executive order that attempts to ban automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented migrants.

President Trump signed that executive order on day one of the second term as his administration made a promise to "repair the United States immigration system."

The issue remains a key focus for the president, who suggested during a meeting with reporters on Tuesday that he may attend to listen to arguments in person.

"I think so," President Trump said, when a reporter asked whether he would attend. "I do believe. Because I have listened to this argument for so long. And this is not about Chinese billionaires or billionaires from other countries who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case, or ten children becoming American citizens. This was about slaves."

At issue before the high court is the application and interpretation of section 1 of 14th Amendment, which says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

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But in filings to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration argues the clause was meant to confer citizenship on the newly freed slaves and their children, not on the children of aliens temporarily visiting the United States or of illegal aliens.

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The ACLU, which sued the Trump administration, says granting citizenship to the majority of the children born in the U.S., regardless of their parents' immigration status, has been in practice for more than a century.

The ACLU also says if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Trump administration, there could be, in their words, "chaos."

"All of us are going be need to prove what our parents' citizenship or immigration status was under the government's proposal," said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project. "So that means that people who may not have access to records about their parents situation are going to potentially hard time proving their citizenship."

According to the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan research organization, more than 250,000 children could be denied U.S. citizenship each year if the high court rules in favor of the Trump administration.

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