[3][4] Frances is best known for her recurring role as Anne Tranter in the 1970s television drama series Survivors and for her appearance in the 1979 Doctor Who serial The Creature from the Pit, in which she played the villainous Lady Adrasta.
[2] She played a schoolteacher at a party in the film Remembrance (1982), about a group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, who go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
Frances left acting, though in the period 1991 to 1993, she directed several plays at the Mill theatre in Sonning, Berkshire.
[2] Frances was first married to the actor Robert Taylor; the couple had one child, actress Rebecca Egan, but divorced.
[2] Frances met her second husband Peter Egan in 1972 while working on the show The Organisation; they married on 13 February 1972.