Emma Fielding

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Emma Fielding
Born	(1970-10-07) 7 October 1970 (age 54) [1] [2] [3] Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK [1] [2]
Alma mater	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Occupation	Actress

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 7 October 1970) is an English actress. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Early life and education

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] While studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school, ^[5] she won a place at Robinson College, Cambridge ^[6] to study law, after spending a gap year which included five months in a kibbutz in Israel, picking watermelons, ^[7] and as an usherette at the Oxford Apollo; before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. ^[8]

Career

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, ^[9] 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. ^[10] She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2003 in Noël Coward's Private Lives. ^[11] 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

• In 1994, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her Agnes in The School for Wives at the Almeida Theatre in 1993. ^[10]
• 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

Film

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

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)
2020‒2024	Van der Valk	Julia Dahlman	12 episodes
2023	Sanditon	Lady Montrose	6 episodes
2024	Beyond Paradise	Marion Goddard	Episode: "#2.4"
	Sister Boniface Mysteries	Venetia Thistleton	Episode: "A Fragrant Scandal"
	Strike	Katya Upcott	4 episodes: "The Ink Black Heart: Parts 1‒4"

Video games

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2007	Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors	Queen Curtana (English version, voice)	[12]
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)	[12]

Audiobooks

• 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:

• I Don't Know How She Does It

References

1. "Emma Fielding". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
2. Greenstreet, Rosanna (16 February 2002). "Q & A". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 26 October 2020.
3. Fielding, Emma (10 July 2022). "Thank you so much! But I'm afraid it's on 7th October. Wikipedia keep changing it back?!". Twitter. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
4. "From the bookies to Stratford's RSC". Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
5. "Berkhamsted Collegiate School: Former Pupils". Schools Guide Book. Archived from the original on 3 February 2006.
6. The Cambridge University List of Members up to December 1991, Cambridge University Press, p. 443
7. , but abandoned it.My hols: actress Emma Fielding ^{[ dead link ‍]} The Sunday Times - 10 August 2003
8. "403 Forbidden". Archived from the original on 28 September 2004. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
9. Measure For Measure, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon ^{[ dead link ‍]} The Independent on Sunday - 6 May 2003
10. Fowler, Rebecca. "Triumphant first acts". Sunday Times . 13 March 1994.
11. "From the bookies to Stratford's RSC" Archived 5 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine . Worcestershire News - 26 April 2003
12. "Emma Fielding (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com (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). Retrieved 23 June 2023.

External links

• Emma Fielding at IMDb
• Emma Fielding at the Internet Broadway Database