Background
Frances was born in Malibu, California.
Frances was born in Malibu, California.
Frances studied at the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in communications and minored in marketing.
She lived in Ecuador and France as part of a foreign exchange program while in high school. During summer breaks, she interned in the news department of KABC-television She spent her junior year of college abroad in Spain, and while living in Madrid, worked at the local television station Canal Plus. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in communications and a minor in marketing from the Wharton School of Business, she joined the staff at Cable News Network in Atlanta as a production assistant, and covered the Republican National Convention.
Frances spent almost two years at Cable News Network before moving back to Los Angeles to join Univision"s KMEX-television, a Spanish-language television station, an assignment editor and producer.
After leaving Univision, she joined Extra—The Entertainment Magazine as a producer, where she helped to launch the syndicated program The following year she joined A Current Affair, a syndicated news magazine, where she produced feature stories and a daily entertainment news segment for anchor Nancy O"Dell.
She began to work for KVBC-television, the National Broadcasting Company station in Las Vegas, where she was hired as an on-air reporter. Later that year she moved to Tucson, Arizona, as a lead reporter at KOLD-television the Columbia Broadcasting System station.
In 1999, she moved to New York to join WCBS-television Channel 2.
She left WCBS-television in 2001 to join the CW11 Morning News as a reporter. In 2002, she was named the Entertainment Anchor for the PiX 11 Morning News. In 2005, the "The CW11 Morning News" team was awarded an Emmy for Best Morning News Program.
She has appeared in feature films and television
She has starred as a reporter in Maid in Manhattan. She played a reporter in two other films, Searching for Bobby Doctorate and The Narrow Gate.
She appeared as herself (an entertainment reporter) on the July 25, 2006 episode of the now defunct soap opera All My Children. 2005 Emmy Award, Best Morning News Program, The CW11 Morning News.