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Australian-born English actress and ballet dancer (1923–2009)
Moyra Fraser
Born (1923-12-03 ) 3 December 1923
Died 13 December 2009(2009-12-13) (aged 86 )
England
Years active 1940–2005 Spouse(s ) Douglas Sutherland (divorced) Roger Lubbock (until his death)Children 3 Relatives Shelagh Fraser (sister)
Moyra Fraser (3 December 1923 – 13 December 2009) was an Australian-born English actress and ballet dancer, who is best known for playing Penny in the long-running sitcom As Time Goes By . Her sister was the actress Shelagh Fraser . She married author Douglas Sutherland , with whom she had a daughter, and Roger Lubbock, by whom she had two sons.[1]
Early life [ edit ]
Moyra Fraser was born in Sydney, Australia to John Newton Mappin Fraser, a director of Mappin & Webb , and Vera Eleanor (née Beardshaw)[2] [3] [4] on 3 December 1923 and with her family emigrated to the United Kingdom in June 1924. Educated at St Christopher's, Kingswood , and Eversfield, Sutton ,[3] she left school at 14 to take up a scholarship with Sadler's Wells Ballet ,[4] where she was befriended by Robert Helpmann .[5]
Stage career [ edit ]
Fraser joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet after training, dancing the title role in Giselle , the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Princess [6] and creating the role of Hope in The Quest (Ashton /Walton after Spenser ).[7] She left the company to play the principal role in Song of Norway at the Palace Theatre, London .[4] Following that Fraser appeared as Venus in The Olympians at Covent Garden , and starred in many plays and pantomimes .[4] These included Girl in the Window and the musical romance Golden City ; she was in the revue Airs on a Shoestring at the Royal Court Theatre from 1953 to 1955.[1] The Country Wife followed at the same theatre.[8] She was part of the Old Vic Company in 1959–60, appearing in As You Like It , The Double Dealer and The Merry Wives of Windsor .[1]
In the 1960s and 1970s, she was seen in Through the Looking Glass at the Lyric, Hammersmith , the revue See You Inside , The Buxom Muse , Ring Round the Moon at the Haymarket Theatre in 1968, and for four years was in the farce No Sex Please, We're British .[1]
Film and television [ edit ]
Fraser's first film role was in the musical The Dancing Years (1950), and she then appeared in the David Lean film Madeleine (also 1950).[9] She appeared in the film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) and starred in The Boy Friend (1971).[10] Fraser's television career began in the 1960s, and she appeared on The Benny Hill Show , ITV Playhouse and an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973.[5] In 1975, she appeared in two episodes of the BBC Television series The Good Life as Felicity, the wife of Jerry's boss, Andrew.[11] [12]
From 1985 to 1986, Fraser played Annie Jolly in From the Top appearing in a total of 12 episodes.[13] She first played Penny, the sister of Jean's first husband, in 1993, on As Time Goes By . She continued with the part until the programme's final episode in 2005.[5] During the show's run, Fraser appeared in other programmes including Rumpole of the Bailey and Jeeves and Wooster .[14] [15]
Selected filmography [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1999, vol. 1, p. 147
^ a b Who's who in theatre, John Parker, 12th ed., 1957, p. 526
^ a b c d "Moyra Fraser" . ATGB Central.[permanent dead link ]
^ a b c Coveney, Michael (15 December 2009). "Moyra Fraser obituary" . The Guardian .
^ Bland A. The Royal Ballet – the first 50 years. Threshold Books, London, 1981.
^ Vaughan D. Frederick Ashton and his Ballets. A & C Black Ltd, London, 1977.
^ "Moyra Fraser | Theatricalia" . theatricalia.com .
^ "Moyra Fraser – Movies and Filmography" . AllMovie . Retrieved 18 September 2021 .
^ "Moyra Fraser" . BFI . Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2021 .
^ "BBC One - the Good Life, Series 1, Say Little Hen...?" .
^ "BBC One - the Good Life, Series 1, the Pagan Rite" .
^ "From the Top (1985)" . BFI . Archived from the original on 28 November 2020.
^ "Rumpole for the Prosecution (1991)" . BFI . Archived from the original on 27 April 2019.
^ "Moyra Fraser" . aveleyman.com .
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moyra_Fraser&oldid=1234387682 "
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