Emma Fielding

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

Biography

The lapsed Roman Catholic daughter of a British Army soldier, [http://archive.worcesternews.co.uk/2003/4/26/205006.html From the bookies to Stratford's RSC] Worcestershire News - 26 April, 2003] Fielding spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop. Whilst studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school, [ [http://www.schoolsguidebook.co.uk/schools/Berkhamsted_Collegiate_School.html Berkhamsted Collegiate School @ UK Schools Guide 2005 ] ] 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 water melons, [ [http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article861765.ece My hols: actress Emma Fielding] The Sunday Times - August 10, 2003] and as an usherette at the Oxford Apollo; before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. [ [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Ge3j2ExO-MQJ:mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/stratfordians/stfieem.htm+%22Emma+Fielding%22+actress&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=41 403 Forbidden ] ]

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," [ [http://arts.independent.co.uk/theatre/reviews/article103542.ece Measure For Measure, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon] The Indepent on Sunday - 6 May 2003] 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." She has also appeared in numerous radio plays for the BBC, inclduing playing Esme in Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll", a role she also played in the West End] . Most recently, she appeared in the BBC TV mini-series " Cranford".

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

elected Filmography

Films

*"Pandaemonium" - 2001
*"Shooters" - 2001
*"A 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
*"The Government Inspector" (2005) as Susan Watts
*"A Great Deliverance" (pilot episode of the "Inspector Lynley" series based on the Elizabeth George novels) as Helen Shavers

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

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