Emma Fielding

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 7 October 1970) is an English actress.

Early life and education

The daughter of a British Army officer, Fielding spent some of her childhood in Nigeria, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Northern Ireland and other places, also living above a betting shop in Malvern. She went to school at Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school and worked as an usherette at the Apollo Theatre Oxford as a teenager. She studied law at Cambridge University, abandoning her studies after two terms, and worked at a kibbutz in Israel before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Career

After graduation Fielding 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, 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. She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2003 in Noël Coward's Private Lives. 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, Fielding won the Ian Charleson Award for her Agnes in The School for Wives at the Almeida Theatre in 1993.
• 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

Television

Video games

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
• Longbourn

External links

• at IMDb
• at the Internet Broadway Database