FORA.tv Speaker - Frances Fisher

Frances Fisher is an English actress resident in the United States. Before she reached the age of 15, Fisher moved nine times with her father who supervised construction in multiple countries. Upon completing high school in Orange, Texas, Fisher worked as a secretary until she moved to Virginia to perform at the Barter Theatre. A short time later, she would move again to New York City where she first made a name for herself playing Deborah Saxon on the soap opera The Edge of Night from 1976 to 1981; Fisher later was in the cast of Guiding Light as Suzette Saxon. She then spent the next 10 years working on stage in New York and in regional theatres all over the East Coast. Fisher was cast as Lucille Ball in the television movie Lucy and Desi: Before the Laughter, which aired to strong ratings and good reviews in 1991.