Frances Conroy (born March 15, 1953) is an American actress. She is most widely known for playing the matriarch Ruth O'Connor Fisher Sibley on the HBO funeral drama series Six Feet Under, which earned her a Golden Globe in 2004.
Set in the fictional, communist country of Arstotzka, the protagonist plays a border inspector who regulates the border checkpoint in East Grestin. They must determine who to admit and who to keep out or arrest.