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Frances Bergen

Frances Bergen (née Westerman, 1922–2006), American actress and fashion model, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen; Powers model, Madame Francine on Yancy Derringer, and star of Eating (1990).

Frances Conroy

Frances Conroy, also known as Frances Hardman Conroy, is an American actress born in 1953, known for playing Ruth Fisher on HBO's Six Feet Under.

Frances de la Tour

Frances de la Tour (born 1944) is an English stage, television and film actress known for Miss Ruth Jones in Rising Damp, Madame Olympe Maxime in the Harry Potter films, and Mrs Lintott in The History Boys; she has won three Olivier Awards and a Tony Award.

Frances Dee

Frances Dee, full name Frances Marion Dee, was an American film actress who appeared in more than 50 pictures from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.

Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer (1913-1970) was a Seattle-born stage and film actress, star of Come and Get It and Broadway's Golden Boy, later institutionalized in the 1940s and host of Indianapolis TV's Frances Farmer Presents; the lobotomy claim traces to a retracted biography.

Frances Fisher

Frances Fisher (born 1952, Milford-on-Sea, England) is an American actress known as Deborah Saxon on The Edge of Night, Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven, and Ruth DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, with a career in theater, film, and SAG-AFTRA activism.

Frances Ford Seymour

Frances Ford Seymour, also known as Frances Ford Seymour Fonda, was a Canadian-born socialite, the second wife of Henry Fonda, and mother of Jane and Peter Fonda.

Frances Ha

Frances Ha is a 2012 American black-and-white comedy-drama directed by Noah Baumbach, co-written with star Greta Gerwig, about a 27-year-old aspiring dancer drifting between apartments in New York City.

Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand (born 1957) is an American actress and producer, wife of Joel Coen, with three Best Actress Oscars (Fargo, Three Billboards, Nomadland), two Emmys for Olive Kitteridge, and a Tony for Good People.

Frances O'Connor

Frances O'Connor (Frances Ann O'Connor), British-Australian actress and director born 1967 in Wantage, England; star of Mansfield Park, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and The Missing; directed Emily (2022).

Frances Reid

Frances Reid (1914-2010), American stage and television actress, best known as Alice Horton on NBC's Days of Our Lives from the 1965 premiere to 2007; Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award 2004.

Frances Sternhagen

Frances Sternhagen (1930–2023), American actress and two-time Tony winner for The Good Doctor and The Heiress; known on TV as Esther Clavin on Cheers, Bunny on Sex and the City, and Gamma on ER.

Frances Tomelty

Frances Tomelty (born 1948, Belfast) is a Northern Irish actress, daughter of actor Joseph Tomelty and first wife of Sting (married 1976–1984), known for The Field, Bellman and True, and Outlander.

Frances Turner

Frances Turner (born 1980, New Rochelle, New York) is an American actress and former corporate attorney, known for Barb Howard in Fallout, Monique in The Boys, Bell Mallory in The Man in the High Castle, and Dr. Lyn Malvo in New Amsterdam.

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, British actor and composer from Brighton, won the 2025 Ian Charleson Award for Juliet opposite Tom Holland in Jamie Lloyd's West End Romeo & Juliet, after racist abuse; also known as Blessing in BBC's Bad Education.

Francesca Annis

Francesca Annis, English actress born in London (sources give 1944 or 1945), trained in ballet at Corona. Known for Lady Macbeth in Polanski's Macbeth (1971), Lady Jessica in Dune (1984), and the BAFTA-winning Lillie (1978), through The Forsytes (2025).

Francesca Capaldi

Francesca Capaldi (Francesca Angelucci Capaldi), American actress born 2004 in California, known for Chloe James on Disney's Dog with a Blog and voicing the Little Red-Haired Girl in The Peanuts Movie (2015), later Crown Lake and 2024 films.

Francesca Eastwood

Francesca Eastwood, born Francesca Ruth Fisher-Eastwood, is an American actress, daughter of Clint Eastwood and Frances Fisher, known for M.F.A. (2017) and her father's Juror #2 (2024).

Francesca Gardiner

Francesca Gardiner is a television writer and producer, Emmy-winning consulting producer on Succession and writer of His Dark Materials' finale, now showrunner of HBO's Harry Potter series.

Francesca Gonshaw

Francesca Gonshaw (born 1959, Marylebone, London) is an English actress who played Maria Recamier in 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1987, 21 episodes) and Marie in Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986).

Francesca Gregorini

Francesca Gregorini (born 1968, Rome) is an Italian-American director, writer, and producer, stepdaughter of Ringo Starr; directed Tanner Hall, The Truth About Emanuel, and Emmy-nominated episodes of The Dropout and Killing Eve.

Francesca Hayward

Francesca Hayward, born 1992 in Nairobi, is an English Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, trained at the Royal Ballet School 2003-11, promoted to Principal in 2016, known for Manon and as Victoria in the 2019 film Cats.

Francesca Hilton

Francesca Hilton (Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton, 1947–2015) was an American actress, photographer, and comedian, the only child of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Conrad Hilton, great aunt of Paris Hilton, and heir to a contested estate.

Francesca Martinez

Francesca Martinez, British comedian, actress, writer and campaigner born in London; "wobbly" with cerebral palsy; first woman to win the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award (2000), Grange Hill actress, author of What The Is Normal?!, and playwright of All of Us at the National Theatre.

Francesca Scorsese

Francesca Scorsese (born 1999), actress, director and TikTok creator, youngest daughter of Martin Scorsese; known for We Are Who We Are, Fish Out of Water (Tribeca 2023), and viral father-daughter TikToks.

Francesca Sloane

Francesca Sloane, American Salvadoran-American TV writer, producer, and showrunner; co-creator of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024) with Donald Glover; also wrote for Atlanta, Fargo, The First, Seven Seconds; two 2024 Emmy nominations.

Francesca Xuereb

Francesca Xuereb (born 1998, Detroit) is an American actress known for Kim White in Room 203 (2022), Cheyenne in Landman season 2, and Erin in Ted; BFA from Loyola Marymount University.

Francesco Carril

Francesco Carril is a Spanish actor and theater director, born in Madrid in 1986, known for his stage career and his film work with director Jonás Trueba.

Francesco Carrozzini

Francesco Carrozzini (born 1982, Monza) is an Italian director and photographer, son of Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani; directed Franca: Chaos and Creation, The Hanging Sun, Supersex, and the AI-made documentary Be Brave.

Francesco Quinn

Francesco Quinn (Francesco Daniele Quinn), Italian-born American actor (1963–2011), son of Anthony Quinn; played Rhah in Platoon, Syed Ali on 24, and Tomas del Cerro on The Young and the Restless; died of a suspected heart attack in Malibu at 48.