About Emma Fielding
Born 1966. Emma Fielding is a British actor, film actor and 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. before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. 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. 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. 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
The Invincible Marit (voice) Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon Morgana (voice) 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
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Who is Emma Fielding?
British actress
When was Emma Fielding born?
Emma Fielding was born on 10 July 1966 in Catterick.
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Emma Fielding is an actor, film actor and actress.
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Emma Fielding is British.
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