Emma Fielding Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for best actress in a supporting role for "Private Lives" in 2001
• Won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for most promising newcomer for her performances in "Arcadia" and "The School for Wives" in 1993
• Won the Dame Peggy Ashcroft Award for best actress for her role in the play "The Broken Heart" in 1993
• Trained in acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
• Before becoming an actress, she worked as a watermelon picker at a West Bank kibbutz and as an usherette at the Oxford Apollo
• Got her start as a stage actress for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company
• Best known for playing Frances Groves in "The Scarlet Tunic" and Miss Galindo in "Cranford․"
• Made her Broadway debut in a production of the Noel Coward play "Private Lives" in 2003