Emma Fielding

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 10 July 1970 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actress.[1][2]

Emma Fielding
Born	10 July 1970[1][2] Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK[1][2]
Occupation	Actress

Biography

The daughter of a British Army officer, Lt. Colonel Johnny Fielding, and Sheila Fielding, she was raised Catholic and spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria in 1979, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop.[3] While studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school,[4] she won a place at Robinson College, Cambridge[5] to study law, but abandoned it and spent a gap year which included five months in a West Bank kibbutz picking watermelons,[6] and as an usherette at the Oxford Apollo; before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.[7]

After graduation she worked for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, coming to the attention of critics in 1993's RSC production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, in which she created the role of Thomasina,[8] and then most notably in John Ford's The Broken Heart for which she won the Dame Peggy Ashcroft Award for Best Actress. Also in 1993, she was Agnes in The School for Wives at the Almeida Theatre, for which she won the Ian Charleson Award.[9] She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2003 in Noël Coward's Private Lives.[3] 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

• 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

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1992	Tell Tale Hearts	Becky Wilson	TV (3 episodes)
	Screenplay	Mary Shelley	TV (1 episode: "Dread Poets' Society")
1993	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Ruth Chevenix	TV (1 episode: "Dead Man's Mirror")
	Performance	Joan Clareville	TV (1 episode: "The Maitlands")
1996	Kavanagh QC	Caroline Wicks	TV (1 episode: "Job Satisfaction")
1997	Drovers' Gold	Elizabeth Watkins	TV miniseries
	A Dance to the Music of Time	Isobel	TV miniseries (2 episodes)
1998	The Scarlet Tunic	Frances Groves	Film
	A Respectable Trade	Frances Scott Cole	TV miniseries (2 episodes)
	The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries	Eleanor Bing	TV (1 episode: "Speedy Death")
	The Life of Confucius	Mother	TV
1999‒2001	Big Bad World	Beatrice Dempsey	TV (7 episodes)
1999	Horizon	Mrs. Lack	TV (1 episode: "Wings of Angels")
2000	Pandaemonium	Mary Wordsworth	Film
	Other People's Children	Josie	TV (1 episode)
	Exposure	Bridget, TV director	Short film
2001	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Helen Clyde	TV (1 episode: "A Great Deliverance")
	The Discovery of Heaven	Helga	Film
	The Green-Eyed Monster	Marni McGuire	TV film
2002	Shooters	D/I Sarah Pryce	Film
	The Gist	Harriet Gould	TV film
	Nova	Emily Shackleton (voice)	TV (1 episode: "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance")
	Birthday Girl	Tracey Jones	TV film
2003	My Uncle Silas	Hermione	TV (1 episode: "A Funny Thing")
	Unscrew	Judy	Short film
	The Ancient Forests	Mother	Short film
2004	Waking the Dead	Dr. Greta Simpson	TV (2 episodes: "The Hardest Word: Parts 1 & 2")
2005	The Government Inspector	Susan Watts	TV film
	Beneath the Skin	Jennifer Hintlesham	TV film
	The Ghost Squad	D/Supt. Carole McKay	TV miniseries (7 episodes)
2007	Fallen Angel	Janet Byfield	TV miniseries (1 episode: "The Office of the Dead")
	Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors	Queen Curtana (English version, voice)	Video game
2007 & 2009	Cranford	Miss Galindo	TV (7 episodes)
2008	The Other Man	Gail	Film
2009	Dragon Age: Origins	Various voices	Video game
2010	Midsomer Murders	Faith Kent	TV (1 episode: "The Silent Land")
2011	Kidnap and Ransom	Naomi Shaffer	TV (3 episodes)
	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher	Mary Kent	TV (1 episode: "The Murder at Road Hill House")
	Death in Paradise	Astrid Knight	TV (1 episode: "Missing a Body?")
	The Great Ghost Rescue	Mabel	Film
2012	Fast Girls	Ellie Temple	Film
	Twenty8k	Jean Weaver	Film
2013	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rise of the Hutt Cartel	Additional voices	Video game
2014	Father Brown	Ada Gerard	TV (1 episode: "The Prize of Colonel Gerard")
	DCI Banks	Liz Forbes	TV (2 episodes: "Piece of My Heart: Parts 1 & 2")
	Inspector George Gently	Agnes Webb	TV (1 episode: "Blue for Bluebird")
	Silk	Elizabeth Buchan	TV (1 episode)
	New Tricks	Caroline Tate	TV (1 episode "Breadcrumbs")
	The Game	Valerie Parkwood	TV miniseries (1 episode)
2015	Foyle's War	Joyce Corrigan	TV (1 episode: "Elise")
	Arthur & George	Charlotte Edalji	TV miniseries (3 episodes)
	This Is England '90	Roma	TV miniseries (1 episode: "Summer")
	Capital	Strauss	TV miniseries (1 episode)
	Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper	London Civilian (voice)	Video game
	The Briny	Unnamed character	Short film
2016	Close to the Enemy	Miss Clarkson	TV miniseries (5 episodes)
	Dark Angel	Helen Robinson	TV miniseries (2 episodes)
2017	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III	Jain Zar (voice)	Video game
2018	Silent Witness	Sally Vaughan	TV (2 episodes: "Moment of Surrender: Parts 1 & 2")
	A Woman of No Importance	Mrs. Allonby	Film
	EastEnders	Judith Thompson	TV (3 episodes)
	Unforgotten	Amy Hollis	TV (6 episodes)
	Call of Cthulhu	Additional voices	Video game
	Doctor Who	Kisar (voice)	TV (1 episode: "Demons of the Punjab")
2018‒2019	Les Misérables	Nicolette	TV miniseries (6 episodes)
2019	Years and Years	Jane Bordolino	TV miniseries (1 episode)
2020	Van der Valk	Julia Dahlman	TV miniseries (3 episodes)

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. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
2. Greenstreet, Rosanna (16 February 2002). "Q & A". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
3. "From the bookies to Stratford's RSC" Archived 5 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Worcestershire News - 26 April 2003
4. Berkhamsted Collegiate School @ UK Schools Guide 2005 Archived 3 February 2006 at Archive.today
5. The Cambridge University List of Members up to December 1991, Cambridge University Press, p. 443
6. My hols: actress Emma Fielding The Sunday Times - 10 August 2003
7. 403 Forbidden
8. Measure For Measure, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The Independent on Sunday - 6 May 2003
9. Fowler, Rebecca. "Triumphant first acts". Sunday Times. 13 March 1994.

External links

• Emma Fielding at IMDb
• Emma Fielding at the Internet Broadway Database
• CV and acting profile