Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 7 October 1970) is an English actress.[1][2][3]
Emma Fielding | |
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| Born | 7 October 1970[1][2][3] |
| Alma mater | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
| Occupation | Actress |
Early life and education
editThe daughter of a British Army officer, Colonel Johnny Fielding, and Sheila Fielding, she was raised Catholic and spent some of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern.[4][5] While studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school,[6] she won a place at Robinson College, Cambridge[7] to study law, after spending a gap year which included five months in a kibbutz in the occupied West Bank, Palestine, picking watermelons,[8] and as an usherette at the Oxford Apollo; before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.[9]
Career
editAfter graduation she worked for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, coming to the attention of critics in 1993's National Theatre production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, in which she created the role of Thomasina,[10] and then most notably in John Ford's The Broken Heart for which she won the Dame Peggy Ashcroft Award for Best Actress.[citation needed] Also in 1993, she was Agnes in The School for Wives at the Almeida Theatre, for which she won the Ian Charleson Award.[11] She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2003 in Noël Coward's Private Lives.[12] She has also appeared in numerous radio plays for the BBC, including playing Esme in Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, a role she also played in the West End. More recently, she appeared in the BBC TV mini-series Cranford.
In 2009, she appeared as Daisy alongside Timothy West in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders. She has also appeared in the crime drama Death in Paradise playing the part of Astrid Knight. (Season 1, Episode 4). In 2014, she appeared in another crime drama DCI Banks (Series 3, Episodes 17 & 18).
In 2018, Fielding appeared in EastEnders as Ted Murray's (Christopher Timothy) daughter.
In November 2018, she provided the voice for the alien Kisar in the Doctor Who episode "Demons of the Punjab".
Awards and nominations
edit- In 1994, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her Agnes in The School for Wives at the Almeida Theatre in 1993.[11]
- Fielding was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance for her role in The School for Scandal in the 1998 season.
- She was nominated for a 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role of 2001 for her performance in Private Lives at the Albery Theatre, London. She won a Theatre World Award for outstanding Broadway debut for the same role when the show was produced on Broadway in 2002.
- She was awarded the 1993 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performances in Arcadia and The School for Wives.
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The Scarlet Tunic | Frances Groves | |
| 2000 | Pandaemonium | Mary Wordsworth | |
| Exposure | Bridget, TV director | Short film | |
| 2001 | The Discovery of Heaven | Helga | |
| 2002 | Shooters | Detective Inspector Sarah Pryce | |
| 2003 | Unscrew | Judy | Short film |
| The Ancient Forests | Mother | Short film | |
| 2008 | The Other Man | Gail | |
| 2011 | The Great Ghost Rescue | Mabel | |
| 2012 | Fast Girls | Ellie Temple | |
| Twenty8k | Jean Weaver | ||
| 2015 | The Briny | Short film | |
| 2018 | A Woman of No Importance | Mrs. Allonby |
Television
edit| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Tell Tale Hearts | Becky Wilson | 3 episodes |
| Screenplay | Mary Shelley | Episode: "Dread Poets' Society" | |
| 1993 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Ruth Chevenix | Episode: "Dead Man's Mirror" |
| Performance | Joan Clareville | Episode: "The Maitlands" | |
| 1996 | Kavanagh QC | Caroline Wicks | Episode: "Job Satisfaction" |
| 1997 | Drovers' Gold | Elizabeth Watkins | Mini-series (5 episodes) |
| A Dance to the Music of Time | Isobel | Mini-series (2 episodes: "The Thirties" and "The War") | |
| 1998 | A Respectable Trade | Frances Scott Cole | Mini-series (2 episodes) |
| The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries | Eleanor Bing | Episode: "Speedy Death" | |
| The Life of Confucius | Mother | ||
| 1999 | Horizon | Mrs. Lack | Episode: "Wings of Angels" |
| 1999, 2001 | Big Bad World | Beatrice Dempsey | 7 episodes |
| 2000 | Other People's Children | Josie | Episode: "#1.2" |
| 2001 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Helen Clyde | Episode: "A Great Deliverance" |
| The Green-Eyed Monster | Marni McGuire | Television film | |
| 2002 | The Gist | Harriet Gould | Television film |
| Nova | Emily Shackleton (voice) | Episode: "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance" | |
| Birthday Girl | Tracey Jones | Television film | |
| 2003 | My Uncle Silas | Hermione | Episode: "A Funny Thing" |
| 2004 | Waking the Dead | Dr. Greta Simpson | 2 episodes: "The Hardest Word: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2005 | The Government Inspector | Susan Watts | Television film |
| Beneath the Skin | Jennifer Hintlesham | Television film | |
| The Ghost Squad | D/Supt. Carole McKay | 8 episodes | |
| 2007 | Fallen Angel | Janet Byfield | Mini-series (1 episode: "The Office of the Dead") |
| 2007, 2009 | Cranford | Miss Galindo | 8 episodes |
| 2010 | Midsomer Murders | Faith Kent | Episode: "The Silent Land" |
| 2011 | Kidnap and Ransom | Naomi Shaffer | 3 episodes |
| The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Mary Kent | Episode: "The Murder at Road Hill House" | |
| Death in Paradise | Astrid Knight | Episode: "Missing a Body?" | |
| 2014 | Father Brown | Ada Gerard | Episode: "The Prize of Colonel Gerard" |
| DCI Banks | Liz Forbes | 2 episodes: "Piece of My Heart: Parts 1 & 2" | |
| Inspector George Gently | Agnes Webb | Episode: "Blue for Bluebird" | |
| Silk | Elizabeth Buchan | Episode: "The Real McCoy: Part 2" | |
| New Tricks | Caroline Tate | Episode "Breadcrumbs" | |
| The Game | Valerie Parkwood | Mini-series (1 episode) | |
| 2015 | Foyle's War | Joyce Corrigan | Episode: "Elise" |
| Arthur & George | Charlotte Edalji | Mini-series (3 episodes) | |
| This Is England '90 | Roma | Mini-series (1 episode: "Summer") | |
| Capital | Strauss | Mini-series (1 episode) | |
| 2016 | Close to the Enemy | Miss Clarkson | Mini-series (6 episodes) |
| Dark Angel | Helen Robinson | Mini-series (2 episodes) | |
| 2018 | Silent Witness | Sally Vaughan | 2 episodes: "Moment of Surrender: Parts 1 & 2" |
| EastEnders | Judith Thompson | 3 episodes | |
| Unforgotten | Amy Hollis | 6 episodes | |
| Doctor Who | Kisar (voice) | Episode: "Demons of the Punjab" | |
| 2018‒2019 | Les Misérables | Nicolette | Mini-series (6 episodes) |
| 2019 | Years and Years | Jane Bordolino | Mini-series (1 episode) |
| 2020‒2023 | Van der Valk | Julia Dahlman | 9 episodes |
| 2023 | Sanditon | Lady Montrose | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Beyond Paradise | Marion Goddard | Episode: "#2.4" |
| 2024 | Sister Boniface Mysteries | Venetia Thistleton | Episode: "A Fragrant Scandal" |
Video games
edit| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors | Queen Curtana (English version, voice) | [13] |
| 2009 | Dragon Age: Origins | The Lady of the Forest / Mother Perpetua / Traveller (voice) | |
| 2013 | Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rise of the Hutt Cartel | Katha Niar (voice) | |
| 2015 | Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper | Blighters / London Civilian (voice) | |
| 2017 | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III | Jain Zar (voice) | |
| 2018 | Call of Cthulhu | Additional voices | |
| 2022 | Steelrising | Marie-Antoinette (voice) / Additional Voices | |
| 2023 | The Invincible | Marit (voice) | |
| Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon | Morgana (voice) | [13] |
Audiobooks
edit- His Dark Materials as Mrs Coulter
- Vanity Fair as Rebecca Sharp Crawley
- The Haunting of Hill House as The Narrator. (By Shirley Jackson. Audiobook, BBC).
- Israbel as Israbel. (By Tanith Lee. Dramatisation, [A Short History of Vampires Episode 3 of 4], BBC).
- Funny Girl as The Narrator. (By Nick Hornby, 2014, Penguin Audio).
She has narrated the following for Naxos Audiobooks:
- Hamlet
- Hedda Gabler
- Jane Eyre
- Lady Windermere's Fan
- Othello
- Rebecca
- The Turn of the Screw
- Fanny Hill
for Random House Audio:
References
edit- ^ a b c "Emma Fielding". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ a b c Greenstreet, Rosanna (16 February 2002). "Q & A". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ a b Fielding, Emma (10 July 2022). Twitter https://twitter.com/emmagafielding/status/1546066849288290304. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Archive news from the Worcester News". Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
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- ^ "Berkhamsted Collegiate School: Former Pupils". Schools Guide Book. Archived from the original on 3 February 2006.
- ^ The Cambridge University List of Members up to December 1991, Cambridge University Press, p. 443
- ^ , but abandoned it.My hols: actress Emma Fielding[dead link] The Sunday Times - 10 August 2003
- ^ "403 Forbidden". Archived from the original on 28 September 2004. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ Measure For Measure, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon[dead link] The Independent on Sunday - 6 May 2003
- ^ a b Fowler, Rebecca. "Triumphant first acts". Sunday Times. 13 March 1994.
- ^ "From the bookies to Stratford's RSC" Archived 5 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Worcestershire News - 26 April 2003
- ^ a b "Emma Fielding (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved 23 June 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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