[2] She is also well known in Britain for portraying the role of miserable warder Sylvia Hollamby in the prison drama series Bad Girls.

[1] She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art alongside Tom Courtenay and John Thaw, among others.

[6] She made her TV debut in the early 1960s and her credits include Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, The Likely Lads, Doctor in Charge, The Dustbinmen, On the Buses, Rising Damp, Tales of the Unexpected, Duty Free, One Foot in the Grave and Casualty.

[10] Fraser has appeared in the ITV soap Coronation Street twice – in 1998 as Magenta Savannah and again in 2013 as Doris Babbage.

[14] In 1964, she married the recording engineer Peter Handford; the couple had met on the set of Billy Liar.