Helen Fraser

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Helen Fraser (born Helen Margaret Stronach; Oldham, Lancashire 15 June 1942) is an English actress, who has appeared in many television series since the early 1960s. For international audiences, she may be best known her roles in Billy Liar (1963) and Repulsion (1965). She is also well known for portraying the role of miserable warder Sylvia Hollamby in the prison drama series Bad Girls. She appeared in the series from the very first episode in 1999 to the very last in 2006.She trained at RADA alongside Tom Courtenay and John Thaw, among others. She got her breakthrough role alongside Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963). They later played the parents of character Dave Best in the Christmas special of The Royle Family (2008).She is best known to television viewers for her long-running role in the ITV women's prison drama Bad Girls as unpleasant warder Sylvia Hollamby from the very first episode in 1999 to the very last in 2006. She reprised the role in the West End production of Bad Girls: The Musical in 2007.She made her TV debut in the early 1960s and her credits include Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, The Likely Lads, Doctor in the House,The Dustbinmen, On the Buses, Rising Damp, Tales of the Unexpected, Duty Free, One Foot in the Grave and Casualty. She also worked on TV with comedians like Dick Emery and the Two Ronnies in the 1970s.She has also appeared on stage, including with the Royal National Theatre, in the West End and in regional theatres across the country. In 2009 and 2010 she toured the UK as Mrs Fisher in a stage version of Billy Liar. In 2011 she joined the tour of Calendar Girls.Fraser has appeared in the ITV soap Coronation Street twice - in 1998 as Magenta Savannah and again in 2013 as Doris Babbage.In 2015 she appeared in an episode of the BBC daytime soap Doctors.In 1964 she married the recording engineer Peter Handford, the couple had met on the set of Billy Liar. Handford died in 2007. Fraser resides in Eye, Suffolk. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Helen Fraser on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1972 to 2016. See the full graphs of the number of Helen Fraser movies released per year from 1972 till 2016.

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Helen Fraser works mostly in Documentary Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 30% of Helen Fraser movies are Documentary Genre movies. See Top Genres that Helen Fraser worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Helen Fraser has worked on is 7.6.

7.6 / 10

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Popular sitcom set in a seedy bedsit lorded over by the mean, vain, boastful, cowardly and racist landlord Rigsby. In each episode, his conceits are debunked by his long suffering tenants.

7.8/1030 min

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