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Frances James is a fictional character in the Australian Channel Seven drama series ''Winners & Losers'', played by Virginia Gay. Frances made her debut screen appearance in the pilot episode "Covert Aggression in Netball", which was broadcast on 22 March 2011. She is one of the show's four female protagonists alongside Sophie Wong (Melanie Vallejo), Jenny Gross (Melissa Bergland) and Bec Gilbert (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith). The series follows their lives after they win eight million dollars on the Oz Lotto. Frances is portrayed as a smart and savvy businesswoman, yet a "complete social loser" disengaged with emotional relationships. Frances' persona is said to have been modeled on the behaviour of her father following the absence of female influence in her upbringing. The character's storyline takes her on the journey finding romance with Zach Armstrong (Stephen Phillips), bonding with her long-lost sister Jasmine Patterson (PiaGrace Moon) and maintaining a close friendship with her personal assistant Jonathan Kurtiss (Damien Bodie). The characters go on to create a family unit. Several storylines involve relationship problems with Zach as meddling characters such as Claire Armstrong (Natalie Saleeba) and Shannon Taylor (Luke McKenzie) threaten their happiness. While others include Frances being held at gunpoint, becoming a lawyer and a same-sex tryst with terminally ill Cat Johnson (Peta Sergeant). The character faced more uncertain times following Jonathan, Jasmine and Zach's departures and the discovery she is pregnant with the latter's child. The character has been favoured by critics such as Debi Enker (''The Age'') and Michael Idato (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') who argued that she is one of the show's better written characters. While Idato's colleague's Bridget McManus and Frances Atkinson have praised Gay's acting skills in comparison to the remainder of the cast. ==Creation and casting== Bevan Lee created the character with Gay in mind. He had previously worked with her on ''All Saints''. Gay was considering moving to the US to pursue her career, but Lee asked her to wait until she read the part. Gay was attracted to the role because she thought it was "wonderful" to read a script in which the main characters were all female. She viewed the characters as "unusual" and "flawed". Gay told Kate Mead from Stuff.co.nz that "I love that about this show and that it's about how our flaws make you the woman that you are today".〔 Gay explained to Mead that she quickly bonded with Melanie Vallejo, Melissa Bergland and Zoe Tuckwell-Smith (who play Frances' best friends Sophie Wong, Jenny Gross and Bec Gilbert respectively). She said that they all undertook "a crash course in each other's lives", share meals and wine to get to know each other. By the third day of rehearsals Gay felt as though they did not have to act their friendships out anymore because they had already been formed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frances James (Winners & Losers)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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