RP / YORKSHIRE. Your favourite naughty Aunt. Great stories. Firm voice in velvet wraps. Peppa Pig's Grandma!

Frances has RP, Yorkshire (native) and Southern Irish accents.

She left the Central School of Speech & Drama with four awards, and has since played in well over 200 roles on TV (many of them leads) which earned her the soubriquet "the thinking man's crumpet"!

Her TV work includes the comedy series A Very Peculiar Practice and Nobody's Perfect, but she's probably best known for the seven series of May To December where she starred as Miss Flood.  Other leading roles include Game On!, Armchair Theatre's The Victorian Chaise Longue and The Imbroglio, Stan Barstow's Raging Calm, and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Wednesday's Child and The Prince Regent.  Further roles include The World Of AE Coppard, Dusky Ruth, Miss Peppard in Dawn French's Wild West (BBC), Holby City (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Dangerfield (BBC), Peak Practice (Central TV), Thieftakers (Carlton TV), Wycliffe (HTV) I, Claudius (BBC), Screamer and Doctor Who (BBC).

Frances' movies include Mary Queen Of Scots, Press For Time and Pumpkin Eater.

On stage she was Laura in The Trouble With Old Lovers (Basingstoke Haymarket Theatre), in A Severed Head (West End) and was The Woman in Ira Lewin's Veronica's Room (Basingstoke).

Her voice work includes numerous documentary recordings including Seconds From Disaster (National Geographic), Hiroshima (BBC), Hitler Youth, and The History Of The SS.  She is also the voice of Grandma Pig in the pre-school animation series Peppa Pig - which won the 2005 BAFTA Award for Best Pre-School Animation, and is even now in production for it's sixth series.