According to a 1972 newspaper profile, Gaunt was born in Beirut to Scottish Presbyterian parents and lived in Uganda until she was 16.
[2] Fiona Gaunt trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1969.
[3] She subsequently played opposite Anthony Hopkins - as Hélène Kuragina, wife of Pierre Bezukhov - in the BBC's 1972 production of War and Peace.
[4] She then starred as psychiatrist Helen Smith in the 1973 science fiction series Moonbase 3.
She had a handful of roles in The Two Ronnies, including as a stowaway in their spoof of The Onedin Line, and starred as Grace Lovell in the 1978 TV adaptation of A Horseman Riding By.