Educated at St Christopher's, Kingswood, and Eversfield, Sutton,[3] she left school at 14 to take up a scholarship with Sadler's Wells Ballet,[4] where she was befriended by Robert Helpmann.

[4] These included Girl in the Window and the musical romance Golden City; she was in the revue Airs on a Shoestring at the Royal Court Theatre from 1953 to 1955.

[1] In the 1960s and 1970s, she was seen in Through the Looking Glass at the Lyric, Hammersmith, the revue See You Inside, The Buxom Muse, Ring Round the Moon at the Haymarket Theatre in 1968, and for four years was in the farce No Sex Please, We're British.

[5] In 1975, she appeared in two episodes of the BBC Television series The Good Life as Felicity, the wife of Jerry's boss, Andrew.

[5] During the show's run, Fraser appeared in other programmes including Rumpole of the Bailey and Jeeves and Wooster.