Frances Fisher Biography

Fast Facts

• Served as an active board member of the Screen Actors Guild
• Studied at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and apprenticed at the Barter Theatre in Virginia
• Made her screen acting debut as Detective Deborah "Red" Saxon in the TV series "The Edge of Night" in 1976
• Worked as a secretary after graduating from high school
• Quote: "[on cosmetic surgery] "If I am a true actress, to be able to play all kinds of roles in all different periods of time, I can't mess with my face․ If you're supposed to be living in the 1850s, you can't look like someone who's had work done!""
• Best known for playing Ruth Dewitt Bukater in "Titanic" and Strawberry Alice in "Unforgiven․"
• Frequently plays strong female characters and has portrayed real people like Lucille Ball in "Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter" and Audrey Hepburn's mother in "The Audrey Hepburn Story․"
• Focused on New York and regional theater from 1981 to 1991
• Moved nine times before the age of 15 due to her father's job as an oil refinery construction superintendent, living in such locations as Brazil, Turkey, Iowa, France, England and Texas