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Raised in a family of actors in New York City, Tess Frazer began performing on stage as a child in the Upper West Side and Hell's Kitchen neighborhoods. She attended the Professional Performing Arts School and graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, a specialized public school renowned for nurturing professional talent in the performing arts. Frazer then trained at the Maggie Flanigan Studio, focusing on the Meisner Technique, and at Circle in the Square Theatre School. She also pursued improv and comedy training at IO Theater in Chicago, as well as at The PIT, Magnet Theater, and Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City.
Her screen debut came in 2015 with the television movie Fan Girl, where she played Claire Bovary opposite Meg Ryan and Kiernan Shipka. The next year, Frazer appeared in Woody Allen's ensemble period film Café Society (2016), set in 1930s Hollywood and New York high society. In April 2016, she originated the role of Lorna in the world premiere of Tracy Letts's Mary Page Marlowe at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, directed by Anna D. Shapiro to critical acclaim; she reprised the role in the New York premiere at Second Stage Theater in summer 2018, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
Frazer's breakthrough came in 2017 as a series regular on the Netflix limited series Godless, portraying Callie Dunne, a former prostitute turned schoolteacher in a mining town largely inhabited by women. This role placed her alongside Michelle Dockery, Merritt Wever, and Jeff Daniels in the Emmy-winning Western drama. Subsequent projects included Write When You Get Work (2018), appearing opposite Emily Mortimer, and guest roles on network television such as FBI: Most Wanted (CBS).
Frazer has continued to expand her theatrical portfolio with world premieres like Richard Greenberg's The Perplexed at Manhattan Theatre Club and workshop development of Anna Deavere Smith's Love All, as well as Off-Broadway performances in The Winter’s Tale, Dracula, and All My Sons. She remains active in both screen and stage work, balancing dramatic roles with her ongoing passion for comedy.
