About Us

Snowball Productions Ltd was formed in 2014 by the agent and entrepreneur Emily Maguire and actor and director Frazer Hines. Their mission is to produce top quality television and film drama, and to establish a home for talent both behind and in front of the cameras.

EMILY MAGUIRE

Emily has been acting on and off since she was 14 years old and after taking a variety of different life paths, found that her heart was still with acting and decided to hone her craft. Training in London at The City Lit and East 15 on a 1 year intensive acting course and taking various classes with the Actors Centre, Emily returned to acting with the intent to push her career as far as possible.

Since training further, Emily has worked successfully has an actress in TV, Film and Theatre on various projects. Including the Timeless Classics comedy idents with the company Biscuit, directed by Matt Carter. With the Director Sam Miller playing the role of Sarah Oakeshott, on the BBC North Production Good Cop. She can also currently be seen in the short Gatecrasher, starring Ryan Prescott, playing the publicist Michelle Addison. More details about Emily's extensive work history can be found via her website www.emilymaguire.co.uk.

In 2012 Emily also started working as a model and has been working none stop ever since, with a look that fits a variety of styles, she has modelled for the NHS, various business shoots and even vintage and fashion modelling.

Alongside being an actor, model and voiceover artist, Emily is also the Managing Director of Reflections Talent Agency (www.reflectionstalentagency.co.uk). Reflections recruits Talent worldwide, with a current focus on the UK, Australia and Ireland. Reflections started in May 2012 and has snowballed ever since and is recognized has one of the good agencies in the entertainment industry. Reflections represent actors, actresses, presenters, dancers, models, specialist acts and more.


FRAZER HINES

Frazer Hines came to prominence as a child actor, appearing in several films before he was fifteen, includingX The Unknown (1956) and Charlie Chaplin’s A King in New York (1957). In 1957 he played Napoleon in the six part BBC serial Huntingtower and followed this with the role of Jan in the seven part BBC serial The Silver Sword (1957-8). Other credits as a child actor include Run to Earth (1958) and William Tell (1958). Other television roles in the sixties include the characters of Tim Birch in Emergency Ward 10 (1963-4), and Roger Wain in Coronation Street (1965).

His film roles include The Weapon (1957) with Lizabeth Scott, Witness in the Dark (1959) with Richard O’Sullivan, The Young Jacobites (1960) with Francesca Annis and Jeremy Bulloch, Go Cart Go (1964) with Dennis Waterman, The Last Valley (1971) with Michael Caine and Omar Sharif, and Zeppelin (1971) with Michael York and Elke Sommer.

His big break came when he was cast to play the part of Jamie McCrimmon in the BBC series Doctor Who, a companion of the second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton. Frazer appeared in the series regularly from 1966 to 1969, earning himself a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest running companion of the Doctor. He returned to the show twice, as a cameo in the 30th anniversary show 'The Five Doctors' (1983), and alongside Patrick Troughton (second Doctor) and Colin Baker (sixth Doctor) in 'The Two Doctors' (1985).

In 1972, Frazer was cast in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm as Joe Sugden, a role he played regularly until 1994. Since leaving the show he has concentrated on a career in the theatre, appearing in many plays, and he currently believes he holds the record for the second most consecutive pantomime appearances – the record holder being Christopher Biggins with 38 appearances. His most recent theatre tour was in John A Penzotti’s Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting On A Green Park Bench (2011).

Frazer has continued his association with Doctor Who and has appeared in and narrated several of the audio adventures published by Big Finish. He has also provided audio commentaries for several of his stories when released on DVD, and has narrated some of the soundtrack releases put out by BBC Audio and AudioGO.

In 1996 Frazer released his autobiography, Films, Farms and Fillies, but at the time of publication, the publishers were in the process of being sold, and so his book only received a rather lack-lustre paperback release. In 2010 therefore, he released a reissued hardback edition of the book, retitled Hines Sight, which corrected many of the typographical and production errors of the first release. This edition was then released in paperback in 2011, and as an audio edition in 2012. In 2013 he released a photographic book of images from his life called Fifty Shades of Frazer. Both are available from his website www.frazerhines.co.uk.

In 2011 Frazer revealed that he had been suffering from, and recovering from bowel cancer for the last eleven years, and was now clear of the disease. He put his name behind several fundraising activities for cancer research, and toured with his one-man show.

In his private life, Frazer has dated some of the most beautiful and eligible actresses and models, and was married to Gemma Craven for three years (1981-1984) and to the award winning water skier Liz Hobbs for nine years (1996-2003).

In his spare time, Frazer is part owner of a stud farm near Newmarket, continuing his love of horses which led to him being a noted amateur horse jockey in the seventies and eighties. He is an active member of The Water Rats, and attends several charity events each year on their behalf. He is a keen sportsman and cricketer, and regularly plays charity events during the summer months.