Frances Fisher

At 72 years old, Frances Fisher has this physical status:

Career

She moved to New York City, where she enjoyed a 14-year stage career in regional and off-Broadway productions after deciding to follow her passion for theatre. She began training with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, where she spent time with him. Fisher began her acting career at the Barter Theatre, a year-round repertory theater in Abingdon, Virginia.

She concentrated on theatre in New York City and in regional theaters around the East Coast over the next ten years. She has also returned to theatre, appearing in Arthur Miller's last play, Finishing the Picture, produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and in a 2006 production of The Cherry Orchard at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

In 2019, she appeared in The Lion's winter playhouse with Gregory Harrison.

Fisher gained notoriety as the lead detective on ABC's daytime soap opera The Edge of Night from 1976 to 1981. Suzette Saxon appeared on CBS' Guiding Light in 1985. In the first season of ABC comedy series Roseanne, Fisher guest appeared as a bartender, Savannah, after leaving daytime television. She has appeared on Newhart, Matlock, and In the Heat of the Night.

Fisher was originally supposed to star Jill Taylor on ABC's Home Improvement, but was later canceled after initial filming because the producers felt that her pilot episode did not match well with the audience. She appeared in the unaired pilot to the short-lived 1992 ABC summer series Human Target (originally shot in 1990), and by the time the series was picked up in October 1991, actress Signy Coleman replaced her role.

Fisher appeared in the television film Lucy & Desire, which attracted high ratings and rave reviews in 1991. Strange Luck, a Fox drama series from 1994 to 1995. In a biographical film starring Audrey Hepburn, Fisher played Ella Hepburn's mother, Ella Hepburn. Janet Lee Bouvier was a part of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in the same year.

Fisher appeared on CBS sitcom Becker as Dr. Elizabeth 'Liz' Carson from 1999 to 2000, and Titus as Juanita Titus from 2000 to 2001. She appeared in the short-lived The WB's Glory Days in 2002 and then starred in another drama that was cancelled after a single season, The Lyon's Den on NBC. Even though Fisher is only five years older, she appeared on the ER episode "Just As I Am" as Helen Kingsley, the long-lost birth mother of Dr. Kerry Weaver. To Love and Die, a NBC/USA pilot starring Jessica Langdon, appeared in a NBC/USA pilot called To Love and Die. Eva Thorne, a fictional actress on the Sci-Fi Channel television series Eureka, appeared in a recurring role in 2008. Fisher appeared on Grey's Anatomy, Two and a Half Men, Private Practice, Sons of Anarchy, Torchwood, Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case, and Castle.

Fisher appeared in ABC's Resurrection, a drama about the people of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unemployed since their deaths. Lucille Langston appeared in Lucille Langston.

In 2017, she and her daughter Francesca Eastwood appeared in "The Law of Non-Contradiction" as the older and younger versions of the same character.

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? Fisher made her film debut in Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983) and later appeared in Patty Hearst, directed by Paul Schrader. In 1989, she appeared in Pink Cadillac opposite Clint Eastwood, and the pair began a six-year offscreen romance. Roxy Carmichael's first appearance in Welcome Home, the following year.

Fisher appeared in Unforgiven, an Academy Award-winning film starring Clint Eastwood, who also appeared. She began acting regularly in major and independent films in later years. Ruth DeWitt Bukater, the mother of the character played by Kate Winslet, was her most prominent role in film as the society matron Ruth DeWitt Bukater. She appeared in True Crime (1999) as D.A. with Eastwood as D.A.

Fisher appeared in House of Sand and Fog (2003), another Academy Award-nominated film. Despite being only 8 years older, Julianne Moore's mother appeared in Laws of Attraction in 2004 as Julianne Moore's mother. Fisher appeared in four films in 2006, including Peter Berg's The Kingdom and Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah. Jessica Chastain was her lover in the film Jolene earlier this year. She served as a official festival judge for the 2011 Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles. She appeared in The Lincoln Advocate and The Roommate in 2011.

In the 2013 film The Host, with Saoirse Ronan and William Hurt, Fisher appeared as Maggie Stryder. She appeared in the films The Potters and You're Not You, as well as The Potters, which were both released in 2014.

Fisher appeared in the film Woman in Gold (2015), portraying Randol Schoenberg's mother (Ryan Reynolds).

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