Frances Fisher is a British-American actress. She is known for her work on television, in theater and in films, including roles as Strawberry Alice, the madame in Unforgiven , and Ruth DeWitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet's Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic . Fisher was born in Milford on Sea, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Olga , a homemaker, 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, she worked as a... secretary, until she moved to Virginia to perform at the Barter Theatre. Fisher first made a name for herself playing Detective Deborah Saxon on the soap opera The Edge of Night from 1976 to 1981; she 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 film Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter, which aired to strong ratings and good reviews in 1991.
more
| Birthdate: | May 11, 1952 |
| Birthplace: | Milford on Sea |
| Age: | 59 |
| Height: | 5' 4" |
| Also known as: | Frances Fisher, frances_fisher, Francis Fisher |