Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding
Born	10 July 1966 Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Residence	England

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 10 July 1966 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actress.

Biography

The daughter of a British Army soldier, Fielding was raised Catholic and spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop.^[1] While studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school,^[2] she won a place at the University of Cambridge to study law, but abandoned it and spent a gap year which included five months in a West Bank kibbutz picking watermelons,^[3] and as an usherette at the Oxford Apollo; before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.^[4]

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,^[5] 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.^[6] She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2003 in Noël Coward's Private Lives.^[1] 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).

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
1993	Agatha Christie: Poirot	Ruth Chevenix	TV (1 episode: "Dead Man's Mirror")
	Performance	Joan	TV (1 episode: "The Maitlands")
1996	Kavanagh QC	Caroline Wicks	TV (1 episode: "Job Satisfaction")
1997	Drovers' Gold	Elizabeth Watkins	TV
	A Dance to the Music of Time	Isobel	TV (2 episodes)
1998	The Life of Confucius	Mother	TV
	A Respectable Trade	Frances Scott Cole	TV
	The Scarlet Tunic	Frances Groves
	The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries	Eleanor Bing	TV (1 episode: "Speedy Death")
1999	Big Bad World	Beatrice Dempsey	TV (7 episodes)
2000	Pandaemonium	Mary Wordsworth
	Other People's Children	Josie	TV (1 episode: "Episode #1.2")
	Exposure	Bridget	Short
2001	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Helen Clyde	TV (1 episode: "A Great Deliverance")
	The Discovery of Heaven	Helga
2002	Shooters	D.I. Sarah Pryce
	The Gist	Harriet Gould	TV
	Green-Eyed Monster	Marni McGuire	TV
	Birthday Girl	Tracey Jones	TV
2003	My Uncle Silas	Hermione	TV (1 episode: "A Funny Thing")
	My Uncle Silas II	Hermione	TV
	Unscrew	Judy	Short
2004	Waking the Dead	Dr. Greta Simpson	TV (2 episodes)
2005	The Government Inspector	Susan Watts	TV
	Beneath the Skin	Jennifer Hintlesham	TV
	The Ghost Squad	D.I. Carole McKay	TV (5 episodes)
2007	Fallen Angel	Janet Byfield	TV (1 episode: "The Office of the Dead")
	Doragon kuesuto sôdo: Kamen no joô to kagami no tô	Queen Curtana	Video Game
	Cranford	Miss Galindo	TV (7 episodes)
2008	The Other Man	Gail
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
	The Great Ghost Rescue	Mabel	post-production
2012	Twenty8k	Jean Weaver	post-production
2014	Father Brown	Mrs Gerard
2015	Arthur & George	Charlotte Edalji	TV

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. "From the bookies to Stratford's RSC". Worcestershire News - 26 April 2003
2. Berkhamsted Collegiate School @ UK Schools Guide 2005
3. My hols: actress Emma Fielding The Sunday Times - 10 August 2003
4. 403 Forbidden
5. Measure For Measure, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The Independent on Sunday - 6 May 2003
6. Fowler, Rebecca. "Triumphant first acts". Sunday Times. 13 March 1994.

External links

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