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Frances Fisher
NameFrances Fisher
BirthdateMay 11, 1952
CharacterMaggie Stryder

Frances Fisher is an American television and film actress, writer and singer. She is known for her work on television, in theatre and in films, including roles as Strawberry Alice, the prostitute in Unforgiven (1992), and Ruth DeWitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet's Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997).

Early Life and Education[]

Fisher was born in Milford on Sea, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Olga (née Moen), a housewife, and William I. "Bill" Fisher, Sr., an oil refinery construction superintendent. Before she reached the age of fifteen, she had moved nine times because of her father's job. Upon completing high school in Orange, Texas, where she had performed in theatre productions, she worked as a secretary.

Career[]

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

Fisher gained name recognition playing Detective Deborah Saxon on the soap opera

Frances Fisher

American actress (born 1952)

Not to be confused with Francis Fisher.

Frances Fisher

Fisher in 2014

Born

Frances Louise Fisher


(1952-05-11) May 11, 1952 (age 72)

Milford on Sea, England, United Kingdom

NationalityAmerican
OccupationActress
Years active1976–present
WorksFilmography
Spouse

Billy Mack Hamilton

(m. 1970; div. 1972)​
PartnerClint Eastwood (1990–1995)
ChildrenFrancesca Eastwood
AwardsHRIFF:
Award of Excellence (2012)

Frances Louise Fisher[1] (born May 11, 1952) is an American actress. She began her career in theater and later starred as Detective Deborah Saxon in the CBS daytime soap opera The Edge of Night (1976–1981). In film, she is known for her roles in Unforgiven (1992), Titanic (1997), True Crime (1999), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Laws of Attraction (2004), The Kingdom (2007), In the Valley of Elah (2007), Jolene (2008), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), and The Host (2013). From 2014

Frances Fisher began by apprenticing at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. She spent 14 years based in New York City, playing leads in over 30 productions of plays by such noted writers as John Arden, Noël Coward, Emily Mann, Joe Orton, Sam Shepard, William Shakespeare, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams. She won a Drama Logue Award - Best Ensemble for the American Premier of Caryl Churchill's "Three More Sleepless Nights", played in the American premier of Judith Thompson's "The Crackwalker" and originated roles in Elia Kazan's "The Chain" and Arthur Miller's last play "Finishing the Picture". Besides working with Kazan and Miller, some of Ms. Fisher's more interesting theater experiences were creating roles from two great works of literature: George Orwell's "1984" and Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Ms. Fisher worked at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles alongside Annette Bening and Alfred Molina in Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard

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