Destiny Brought Frances Fisher Together With Clint Eastwood

Frances Fisher often wondered growing up what it would be like to have roots.

“I remember thinking what it would be like to have a home in one place and have friends you know for all your life. I never felt that.”

Fisher plays the vengeful Strawberry Alice in her boyfriend Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed Western “Unforgiven,” and is featured in Showtime’s thriller “Devlin,” airing Saturday, as the oversexed, crazy wife of Bryan Brown.

As a youngster, Fisher’s father supervised construction companies in England, Turkey, Frances, Italy, Columbia, Iowa and Texas.

“I learned to read and write French in the first grade,” Fisher recalls. “I guess I learned English from (reading) Little Lulu comic books because I didn’t learn English until the second grade when I was in Brazil.”

Wanderlust is still very much in Fisher’s blood. “I live in a couple of different places. When I was in New York, which was the longest I was ever in one city, 14 years, I moved seven times.”

Fisher caught the acting bug after appearing in community theater productions in Texas of “Summer and Smoke” and “A Man for All Seasons.”

“I thought, ‘This sure beats being a secretary at Firestone,’ ” she says, laughing. “I faked my way through shorthand so I was barely a secretary. I knew there was something else in my destiny.”

After apprenticing at Virginia’s Barter Theatre for a year, Fisher moved to New York and appeared on stage in such productions as “Fool for Love” and “Orpheus Descending.”

Since moving to Los Angeles, Fisher has been featured in “Pink Cadillac,” also with Eastwood, “L.A. Story” and played Lucille Ball in the 1991 CBS movie “Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter.”

Will Fisher and Eastwood team up again on on the silver screen? “I hope so,” she says enthusiastically. “I would like to. He is a wonderful actor and director.”