Born and brought up in India for the first ten years, Fran Biggs completed her education in England and trained as a Drama Specialist in London. Fran discovered her love of theatre aged four when she made her acting debut on stage in Hyderabad, S India. She taught for over twenty years. Then in the year 2000 Fran made a career change and is now a busy full-time actor, writer and Community Theatre director.
Fran understands the importance of being a team player and thrives on working hard to attain the highest standard at all times. She is a versatile performer with a professional attitude and extensive theatre, television and film experience.
In 2003 she was commissioned to write and direct a children’s play called ‘Wicked Dragons’. It toured the Newcastle area as a preview to seventeen performances in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It proved to be a great success, with an audience of nearly seven hundred.
She also has had the good fortune to attend master classes with well known actors such as Richard Wilson, Prunela Scales and Penelope Keith and excellent workshops with top directors/casting directors and producers. These were run by The Actors’ Centre North East in Newcastle, which sadly no longer exists.
Since becoming a professional actor, Fran has gained valuable television, film and radio experience with roles including the chief protester in ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’, a news reporter in ‘Wire in the Blood’ for television, various ‘mother’ roles, company boss, a model and a super-bitch in films, and some voice-over work for local radio.
