Background
The daughter of a British Army soldier, Fielding was raised Catholic and spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents" betting shop.
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Emma Fielding
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Career
She made her Broadway theatre debut in 2003 in Noël Coward"s Private Lives. She has also appeared in numerous radio plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation, 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 British Broadcasting Corporation television mini-series Cranford.
In 2009 she appeared as Daisy alongside Timothy West in the British Broadcasting Corporation 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). Awards and nominations.
Achievements
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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.
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Religion
Catholic