Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding
Born	1966 Yorkshire, England

Emma Fielding (born 1966 in Yorkshire) is an English actress.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Filmography 2.1 Films 2.2 Television 2.3 Audiobooks 3 References 4 External links

Biography

The lapsed Roman Catholic daughter of a British Army soldier,^[1] Fielding spent much of her childhood in Malaya and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop.^[1] Whilst studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school,^[2] she gained entry to the University of Cambridge to study law, but abandoned it and spent a gap year encompassing five months in a West Bank kibbutz picking water melons,^[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,^[5] and then most notably in John Ford’s The Broken Heart for which she won the Dame Peggy Ashcroft Award for Best Actress and the Ian Charleson Award. She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2003 in Noel Coward's Private Lives.^[1] She has also appeared in numerous radio plays for the BBC, inclduing playing Esme in Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. Most recently, she appeared in the BBC TV mini-series Cranford.

• 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 was awarded the 1993 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performances in Arcadia and The School for Wives.

Filmography

Films

• Pandaemonium - 2001
• Shooters - 2001
• Respectable Trade - 1998
• The Scarlet Tunic - 1997

Television

• A Dance to the Music of Time (eight-part mini-series, 1997) as Isobel Tolland
• Cranford (BBC One, 2007) as Miss Galindo

Audiobooks

• His Dark Materials as Mrs Coulter

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

References

External links

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