Helen Fraser
Biography
Helen Fraser is a retired English actress who studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began appearing on television in the early 1960s. She won her breakthrough role alongside Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963), and viewers outside Britain may know her best for that film and for Repulsion (1965). In Britain she became familiar as the unpleasant prison officer Sylvia Hollamby in the women's prison drama Bad Girls, a part she played across the series' run from 1999 to 2006 and returned to in a West End staging of Bad Girls: The Musical in 2007. Her television credits range from Z-Cars and Rising Damp to One Foot in the Grave and Casualty. On stage she worked with the Royal National Theatre and toured in the stage adaptation of Billy Liar, playing Mrs Fisher, in 2009 and 2010.
84years old
Turns 85 on June 15in 245 days
- Born Oldham
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 26 years1962 to 1988
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Early training
Helen Fraser trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art alongside Tom Courtenay and John Thaw, and her breakthrough role came opposite Courtenay in Billy Liar in 1963.
Helen Fraser movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Helen Fraser shares two films with Leonard Rossiter, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by John Schlesinger
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