Moyra Fraser was born in Sydney, Australia. She won a scholarship at the age of 12 to the Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company and scored her first major success in Robert Helpmann’s ballet Comus. She stayed with the ballet as a soloist until the age of 20—leaving to play a leading role in the musical Song of Norway. She then played the non-singing part of Venus in the Bliss - Priestley opera The Olympians at Covent Garden. Following a con­siderable personal success in her first revue Penny Plain at the St. Martin’s Theatre, she then starred with Max Adrian in Airs on a Shoe­string and its sequel Fresh Airs. Miss Fraser then moved on to play in the English Stage Company's production of the Restoration Comedy The Country Wife. This was fol­lowed by a season with the Old Vic Company in Double Dealer, As You Like It and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Miss Fraser’s many West End appearances include Camelot at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and Ring Round the Moon at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Tele­vision has also featured largely in her career varying from the serial dramatisation of Jorrocks to Comedy Playhouse. Films Miss Fraser has appeared in include The Man Who Loved Redheads, Left, Right and Centre, The V.I.P.s, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and most recently The Boyfriend for Ken Russell.

Thanks to Maree Wilson for sending this photo and biography, which, I assume, came from the Bloomsbury Program because the photos were sent together and Bloomsbury is not mentioned in the bio. Bloomsbury, according to the flyer, was first performed at the Phoenix Theatre on July 10, 1974.

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