Biography

Franceska was born and raised in the southeastern United States. Her parents are scientists and she holds four college degrees, including two Masters. She studied acting in London, England with Vivienne Guignard, in New York City with Julie Bovasso and Judy Magee, and in Los Angeles with Alfred Molina, the LA Women's Shakespeare Company, and the Classical Theatre Lab. Her favorite artists are the Beatles.
- IMDb mini biography by: Granny Smith Productions

Mary Barrett Dyer, a Quaker martyr who was hanged in Boston in 1660 for refusing to renounce her beliefs in freedom of thought, speech, and religion for all people, was her 11th great-grandmother.

Studied Shakespeare in Los Angeles with Alfred Molina.

Danced the mambo with Samuel L. Jackson in a March Madness promo for CBS.

Shares a birthday on December 9th with Dame Judi Dench, Felicity Huffman, Kirk Douglas, John Malkovich, Donny Osmond, John Cassavetes, and Redd Foxx.

Franceska is descended from settlers and Indigenous peoples. She is of Scottish, English, Irish, German, Jewish, Italian, Cherokee, Pamunkey, and Nanticoke descent.