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Biography #2

Frances Fisher's chameleon-like ability to adapt to a wide range of roles stems not only from her years on the stage but from her upbringing, having been schooled on four continents. Fisher is perhaps best known for her recent starring role (as Ruth DeWitt Bukater) in the Oscar-winning mega blockbuster Titanic (for which Fisher received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast).

Fisher has recently completed three projects: the ABC telefeature Audrey Hepburn (as Audrey's mother, co-starring with Jennifer Love-Hewitt); Tom Rice's The Rising Place (also starring Laurel Holloman, Elyse Neal, Frances Sternhagen and Tess Harper); and Jerry Bruckheimer's action thriller, Gone in Sixty Seconds, which also stars Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi and Robert Duvall.

Fisher was born in Milford-On-Sea, England, the daughter of an international construction supervisor. Her family lived all over the world (Columbia, Canada, France, Brazil, Turkey, Italy and the U.S.), and Fisher finished her schooling in Texas. Attracted to the theatre, she eventually moved to New York City and studied with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Fisher was one of the last three actors chosen by Strasberg to be a member of the Actors' Studio before he passed on. Fisher spent years playing leading roles in over thirty productions, regional, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. Favorite roles include: Fool For Love, Desire Under the Elms, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Midsummer Night's Dream. During this time she also had long-running roles in the television soaps The Edge of Night and The Guiding Light. Her additional television credits include the telefeatures Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (in which she portrayed comic legend Lucille Ball), Devlin, Crime and Punishment, The Other Mother and Cold Sassy Tree, and a series regular role in Strange Luck.

Fisher's additional feature film credits include Clint Eastwood's True Crime and his Oscar-winning Unforgiven; The Stars Fell on Henrietta; Female Perversions; Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst; Henry Jaglom's Babyfever and Can She Bake a Cherry Pie; and Norman Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance.

Fisher recently won a DramaLogue Award for her work in Caryl Churchill's Three More Sleepness Nights and is currently working with Joan Tewkesbury on an expanded version of Jammed, her one-woman show which Fisher debuted to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1997.

Bio courtesy Warner Bros. (01-Jan-2000)