Emma Fielding


Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding 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. 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.. In 2014, she appeared in another crime drama DCI Banks.
In 2018, Fielding appeared in EastEnders as Ted Murray's daughter.
In November 2018, she provided the voice for the alien Kisar in the Doctor Who episode "Demons of the Punjab".

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Audiobooks

She has narrated the following
for Naxos Audiobooks:
for Random House Audio: