# Emma Fielding

Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 7 October 1970) is an English actress.

## Early life and education

The daughter of a British Army officer, Colonel Johnny Fielding, and Sheila Fielding, she was raised Catholic and spent some of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern. While studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school, she won a place at Robinson College, Cambridge to study law, after spending a gap year which included five months in a kibbutz in Israel, picking watermelons, and as an usherette at the Oxford Apollo; before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

## Career

After graduation she 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. (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, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her Agnes in The School for Wives at the Almeida Theatre in 1993.
* 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
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | The Scarlet Tunic | Frances Groves | |
| 2000 | Pandaemonium | Mary Wordsworth | |
| 2000 | Exposure | Bridget, TV director | Short film |
| 2001 | The Discovery of Heaven | Helga | |
| 2002 | Shooters | Detective Inspector Sarah Pryce | |
| 2003 | Unscrew | Judy | Short film |
| 2003 | The Ancient Forests | Mother | Short film |
| 2008 | The Other Man | Gail | |
| 2011 | The Great Ghost Rescue | Mabel | |
| 2012 | Fast Girls | Ellie Temple | |
| 2012 | Twenty8k | Jean Weaver | |
| 2015 | The Briny | | Short film |
| 2018 | A Woman of No Importance | Mrs. Allonby | |

### Television

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1992 | Tell Tale Hearts | Becky Wilson | 3 episodes |
| 1992 | Screenplay | Mary Shelley | Episode: "Dread Poets' Society" |
| 1993 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Ruth Chevenix | Episode: "Dead Man's Mirror" |
| 1993 | Performance | Joan Clareville | Episode: "The Maitlands" |
| 1996 | Kavanagh QC | Caroline Wicks | Episode: "Job Satisfaction" |
| 1997 | Drovers' Gold | Elizabeth Watkins | Mini-series (5 episodes) |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Isobel | Mini-series (2 episodes: "The Thirties" and "The War") |
| 1998 | A Respectable Trade | Frances Scott Cole | Mini-series (2 episodes) |
| 1998 | The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries | Eleanor Bing | Episode: "Speedy Death" |
| 1998 | The Life of Confucius | Mother | |
| 1999 | Horizon | Mrs. Lack | Episode: "Wings of Angels" |
| 1999, 2001 | Big Bad World | Beatrice Dempsey | 7 episodes |
| 2000 | Other People's Children | Josie | Episode: "#1.2" |
| 2001 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Helen Clyde | Episode: "A Great Deliverance" |
| 2001 | The Green-Eyed Monster | Marni McGuire | Television film |
| 2002 | The Gist | Harriet Gould | Television film |
| 2002 | Nova | Emily Shackleton (voice) | Episode: "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance" |
| 2002 | Birthday Girl | Tracey Jones | Television film |
| 2003 | My Uncle Silas | Hermione | Episode: "A Funny Thing" |
| 2004 | Waking the Dead | Dr. Greta Simpson | 2 episodes: "The Hardest Word: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2005 | The Government Inspector | Susan Watts | Television film |
| 2005 | Beneath the Skin | Jennifer Hintlesham | Television film |
| 2005 | The Ghost Squad | D/Supt. Carole McKay | 8 episodes |
| 2007 | Fallen Angel | Janet Byfield | Mini-series (1 episode: "The Office of the Dead") |
| 2007, 2009 | Cranford | Miss Galindo | 8 episodes |
| 2010 | Midsomer Murders | Faith Kent | Episode: "The Silent Land" |
| 2011 | Kidnap and Ransom | Naomi Shaffer | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Mary Kent | Episode: "The Murder at Road Hill House" |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise | Astrid Knight | Episode: "Missing a Body?" |
| 2014 | Father Brown | Ada Gerard | Episode: "The Prize of Colonel Gerard" |
| 2014 | DCI Banks | Liz Forbes | 2 episodes: "Piece of My Heart: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2014 | Inspector George Gently | Agnes Webb | Episode: "Blue for Bluebird" |
| 2014 | Silk | Elizabeth Buchan | Episode: "The Real McCoy: Part 2" |
| 2014 | New Tricks | Caroline Tate | Episode "Breadcrumbs" |
| 2014 | The Game | Valerie Parkwood | Mini-series (1 episode) |
| 2015 | Foyle's War | Joyce Corrigan | Episode: "Elise" |
| 2015 | Arthur & George | Charlotte Edalji | Mini-series (3 episodes) |
| 2015 | This Is England '90 | Roma | Mini-series (1 episode: "Summer") |
| 2015 | Capital | Strauss | Mini-series (1 episode) |
| 2016 | Close to the Enemy | Miss Clarkson | Mini-series (6 episodes) |
| 2016 | Dark Angel | Helen Robinson | Mini-series (2 episodes) |
| 2018 | Silent Witness | Sally Vaughan | 2 episodes: "Moment of Surrender: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2018 | EastEnders | Judith Thompson | 3 episodes |
| 2018 | Unforgotten | Amy Hollis | 6 episodes |
| 2018 | Doctor Who | Kisar (voice) | Episode: "Demons of the Punjab" |
| 2018‒2019 | Les Misérables | Nicolette | Mini-series (6 episodes) |
| 2019 | Years and Years | Jane Bordolino | Mini-series (1 episode) |
| 2020‒2024 | Van der Valk | Julia Dahlman | 12 episodes |
| 2023 | Sanditon | Lady Montrose | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Beyond Paradise | Marion Goddard | Episode: "#2.4" |
| 2024 | Sister Boniface Mysteries | Venetia Thistleton | Episode: "A Fragrant Scandal" |
| 2024 | Strike | Katya Upcott | 4 episodes: "The Ink Black Heart: Parts 1‒4" |

### Video games

| Year | Film | Role |
| 2007 | Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors | Queen Curtana (English version, voice) |
| 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 |
| 2023 | The Invincible | Marit (voice) |
| 2023 | 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