[1] A short, cherubic-like character actress, Fax mainly appeared in cheerful small supporting roles as 'little old ladies'.

She served as an occasional comic foil to Jack Benny, Lucille Ball (in a guest appearance on I Love Lucy), and others.

She also made appearances in numerous other popular television shows of the 1950s and 1960s such as Gunsmoke, Peter Gunn, Our Miss Brooks, The Jack Benny Program, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Perry Mason, The Joey Bishop Show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Andy Griffith Show,[6] Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., and The Wild Wild West.

(1969), The Music Man (1962) with Robert Preston, The Family Jewels (1965) with Jerry Lewis, and the Andy Griffith film Angel in My Pocket (1969).

In addition to appearing in his television shows, Fax acted in the Alfred Hitchcock murder/suspense films Rear Window (1954), which starred James Stewart and Grace Kelly, and North By Northwest(1959), which starred Cary Grant.