Fran studied theatre at Dartington College of Arts. There followed the usual string of stop gap jobs; one of her funniest days work was in a bacon factory and some of the saddest were spent cleaning domestic fire damaged possessions on behalf of an insurance firm.

Assorted media type jobs ensued: stints acting on stage in Cornwall and Edinburgh, work at a magazine, a theatre company, a radio station and a sound studio in Soho.

In 2003 she became a full time voiceover person from a home studio in Brighton.

She now lives and works in London, 30 minutes from Soho