Fraser left drumming to join
Graeae Theatre Company, Europe's leading disabled theatre company, after their production of
Ubu inspired him to change careers. He worked in forum theatre for Graeae for several months, then landed the part of Dr Prentice in
Joe Orton's
What the Butler Saw. He is now a patron of Graeae. Subsequent theatre roles in the 1990s included the Group K production of
Marisol and the title role in
Johnny Sol at the Croydon Warehouse. His first major television role was in ITV's 1998 three-part World War II drama series
Unknown Soldier (ITV, 1998). Fraser has been associated with the use of the term "spacking up" to describe when a non-disabled actor plays the part of a disabled person rather than the part going to a disabled actor, as a play on
"blacking up", used to describe the controversial practice where non-black actors take on the characters of black people. The term was actually coined by one of the show's writers, in the line "spacking up is the new blacking up". Fraser has appeared on television in a number of other productions, including
Metrosexuality and
Every Time You Look at Me (2004). He wrote 2005's
Thalidomide!! A Musical, in which he and Anna Winslet played all the roles. After leading in Lou Birks's short film "Stubborn & Spite", written for him in 2009, he released his own film
Kung Fu Flid starring
Faye Tozer (formerly of pop group
Steps),
Frank Harper, and
Terry Stone. Fraser appeared in the
RTÉ One soap opera
Fair City in June 2011, playing Esther's son
David. In 2012 he appeared in
Kaite O'Reilly's stage play ''In Water I'm Weightless'' as part of the
2012 Cultural Olympiad. Fraser was one of the regular cast members in the fourth season of the US TV series
American Horror Story: Freak Show. For three seasons, from 2017 to 2020, Fraser played the character Roger Frostly on the American comedy-drama television series
Loudermilk. In May 2017, Fraser was cast as Shakespeare's King Richard III, "a disabled guy gets cast as a disabled guy", a role he discussed with Emma Tracey, presenter for
BBC Radio's service for disabled people, "Ouch". In 2019, Fraser played Raymond Van Geritt in the
BBC One adaptation of
Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy
His Dark Materials. In 2020, Fraser wrote and curated the
BBC Four disability series
Criptales. Also in 2020, he played Jim Bell in episodes 1 and 2 of
Silent Witness, Series 23. In 2023 he played a minor role as the hospital administrator, Steve, in ITV's
Maternal. Also in 2023, Fraser appeared in
Sister Boniface Mysteries in Series 2, Episodes 5 and 10, as Clement Rugg. In 2024, Fraser played the role of Daedalus in the
Netflix series
Kaos, a modern comedic adaptation of
Greek mythology. == Television presenting ==