Frances Fisher

Frances Fisher is an American actress born on May 11, 1952, in Milford on Sea, England, to American parents. She trained in theater, studied at the Actors Studio, and spent years on regional and off-Broadway stages before reaching a wide audience on television as Detective Deborah Saxon in the ABC soap opera The Edge of Night from 1976 to 1981. She later joined Guiding Light and took guest and recurring roles in series such as Roseanne, Becker, Titus, Eureka and Resurrection, and she appeared in the HBO series Watchmen in 2019. Her film career took off with Unforgiven in 1992, directed by Clint Eastwood, and continued with Titanic in 1997, where she played the society matron Ruth DeWitt Bukater, as well as True Crime, House of Sand and Fog, The Lincoln Lawyer and Woman in Gold. Fisher has also been active in the Screen Actors Guild and its successor union SAG-AFTRA as a board member and chapter officer.