Angus Fraser is a

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and

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. He has most recently been

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and writer for '' Terminal City''.

Career

Fraser is a native of

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. His drama ''Terminal City'' aired on

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on October 17, 2005. He was the director-creator, with

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also brought in as a director. Timeout says the show "prominently counts reality TV among its subjects, but its chief concerns—marriage, family and mortality—are timeless ones that are given fresh urgency by the way screenwriter Angus Fraser approaches them from odd angles." Fraser's plot follows a family woman who finds she has cancer and becomes the star of a reality show simultaneously. He was partly inspired by a close call his mother had with cancer, and his own near-death experience when he was stabbed in the heart as a bouncer. In 2008 ''Terminal City'' was picked up by

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. He also co-wrote the films ''A Girl Is A Girl,'' ''Witnesses and Wiseguys,'' and '' A Complicated Kindness.''

Filmography

*''Kissed'' (1996) *''A Girl is a Girl'' (1999) *''

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'' (2004)

TV credits

*'' Terminal City'' (2005)

Accolades

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* Best Screenwriting Dramatic Series - Winner - ''Terminal City'' - For Episode 8

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* Best Writing in a Dramatic Series - Nominee - ''Terminal City''

References

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