Moyra Fraser (1923 – 2009), Australian-born English actress and ballet dancer, who is best known for playing Penny in the long-running sitcom As Time Goes By.
In 1924 her family emigrated to the United Kingdom. She left school at 14 to take up a scholarship with Sadler's Wells Ballet, where she was befriended by Robert Helpmann. Fraser joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet after training and left the company to play the principal role in Song of Norway at the Palace Theatre, London. Following that Fraser appeared as Venus in The Olympians at Covent Garden, and starred in many plays and pantomimes.
Fraser's first film role was in the musical The Dancing Years (1950).
She first played Penny, the sister of Jean's first husband, in 1993, on As Time Goes By. She continued with the part until the programme's final episode in 2005.
- "Her grace, vivacity and flaming red hair were prominent on a variety of major dance stages before and after the second world war..." https://www.theguardian.com/.../dec/15/moyra-fraser-obituary
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