Career
She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art alongside Tom Courtenay and John Thaw, among others. [4] She gained her breakthrough role alongside Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963). [5] They later played the parents of character Dave Best in the Christmas special of The Royle Family (2008). [6]
She is best known to television viewers for her long-running role in the ITV women's prison drama Bad Girls as unpleasant prison officer Sylvia Hollamby [7] from the first episode in 1999 to the last in 2006. [1] She reprised the role in the West End production of Bad Girls: The Musical in 2007. [6]
She made her TV debut in the early 1960s and her credits include Z-Cars , Dixon of Dock Green , The Likely Lads , Doctor in Charge , The Dustbinmen , On the Buses , Rising Damp , Tales of the Unexpected , Duty Free , One Foot in the Grave and Casualty . [8] She also worked on TV with comedians like Dick Emery and the Two Ronnies in the 1970s. [6]
She has also appeared on stage, including with the Royal National Theatre, in the West End and in regional theatres across the country. [9] In 2009 and 2010, she toured the UK as Mrs Fisher in a stage version of Billy Liar . [3] In 2011, she joined the tour of Calendar Girls . [10]
Fraser has appeared in the ITV soap Coronation Street twice – in 1998 as Magenta Savannah and again in 2013 as Doris Babbage. [11] [12] [13]
In 2015, she appeared in an episode of the BBC daytime soap Doctors . [14]
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