Emma Fielding | |
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| Born | 7 October 1970 [1] [2] [3] |
| Alma mater | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland |
| Occupation | Actress |
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 |
Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 7 October 1970) is an English actress. [1] [2] [3]
The 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]
After 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".
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 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 |
| 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" |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 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] |
She has narrated the following for Naxos Audiobooks:
for Random House Audio:
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