31 Facts About Frances Fisher

Frances Louise Fisher was born on May 11,1952 and is an American actress.

Frances Fisher began her career in theater and later starred as Detective Deborah Saxon in the CBS daytime soap opera The Edge of Night.

From 2014 to 2015, Fisher starred in the ABC drama series Resurrection.

Frances Fisher was born on May 11,1952, in Milford on Sea, the daughter of American parents Olga Rosine, a housewife, and William Irving "Bill" Frances Fisher, Sr, an oil refinery construction superintendent.

Frances Fisher's father was of Russian-Jewish and Hungarian-Jewish descent, whereas her mother was of Norwegian ancestry.

Frances Fisher completed her high school at Lutcher Stark High School in Orange, Texas, where she performed in theatre productions, and later worked as a secretary.

Frances Fisher became involved with the Actors Studio, where she studied with Lee Strasberg.

Frances Fisher moved to Abingdon, Virginia, where she began her acting career at the Barter Theatre, a year-round repertory theatre.

Frances Fisher has returned to theatre; she appeared in Arthur Miller's last play, Finishing the Picture, produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and in a 2006 production of The Cherry Orchard at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

Frances Fisher gained recognition playing Detective Deborah Saxon on the ABC daytime soap opera The Edge of Night from 1976 to 1981.

Frances Fisher later joined the cast of CBS's Guiding Light as Suzette Saxon in 1985.

Frances Fisher appeared on Newhart, Matlock and In the Heat of the Night.

Frances Fisher was originally cast to play Jill Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement, but was replaced after initial filming because producers felt that her pilot episode performance did not test well with the audience.

Frances Fisher was cast in the unaired pilot to the short-lived 1992 ABC summer series Human Target.

In 2000, Frances Fisher portrayed Audrey Hepburn's mother, Ella Hepburn, in the biographical film of the actress.

Frances Fisher had recurring roles in the CBS sitcom Becker as Dr Elizabeth 'Liz' Carson from 1999 to 2000, and on Fox's Titus as Juanita Titus.

In 2005, she appeared on the ER episode "Just As I Am," as Helen Kingsley, the long-lost birth mother of Dr Kerry Weaver, played by Laura Innes, even though Frances Fisher is only five years older.

Frances Fisher guest-starred on Grey's Anatomy, The Shield, Two and a Half Men, Private Practice, Sons of Anarchy, Torchwood: Miracle Day, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case, and Castle.

In 2014, Frances Fisher was starring in the ABC drama series Resurrection about the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since their deaths.

In 1992, Frances Fisher had her break-out role in Unforgiven, an Academy Award-winning film directed by Clint Eastwood, who starred.

Frances Fisher had a role in House of Sand and Fog, another Academy Award-nominated film.

Frances Fisher worked on four films in 2006, including Peter Berg's The Kingdom, and Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah.

Frances Fisher served as an official festival judge for the 2011 Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Frances Fisher appeared as Maggie Stryder in the 2013 film The Host with Saoirse Ronan and William Hurt.

Frances Fisher appeared in the films The Potters and You're Not You, both released in 2014.

Frances Fisher appeared in the film Woman in Gold, playing the mother of Randol Schoenberg.

Frances Fisher has served as SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Chapter's first vice-president, as well as a member of the Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors since 2004 and after the merger.

Frances Fisher later endorsed Williamson for her 2020 presidential campaign and again for her 2024 presidential campaign.

In 1970, when Frances Fisher was 18, she married her high school sweetheart Billy Mack Hamilton.

Frances Fisher was in a relationship with Unforgiven co-star Clint Eastwood in the early-to-mid-1990s.

Frances Fisher has explained that finding a boyfriend was difficult while raising a child on her own.