Edith Fields

A veteran of stage, screen and television, 'Edith Fields' (qv) is the recipient of the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, seven Drama Logue 'Awards' (qv) and a KABC Year End Radio Award for her work in Los Angeles Theatre. She began her career at age 5, singing and dancing for community functions in her home town of Poughkeepsie, New York. She acted in college productions and continued to entertain in Army Hospitals with the U.S.O. Fields received her Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (as well as a Drama Logue Award) for her work in the Theatre West Production of Like One Of The Family. Critical praise for her performance as Beth/Consuelo ranged from "dizzy and delightful" (Frontiers) to "a showstopper" (Hollywood Reporter). For her Drama Logue Award-Winning portrayal of Rose, the mother, in Nuts at the Las Palmas Theatre, the Los Angeles Times summed up the critics' opinion: "'Edith Fields' (qv) is splendid!" She won both the KABC Radio Award and Drama Logue Award for Avenue Of Dreams/Nothing Immediate (Company Of Angels), for which she was cited as "extraordinary" (Los Angeles Times). Additional Los Angeles stage credits include Death Of A Salesman (LATC), Beau Jet (Westwood Playhouse), Staccato (Tiffany Theatre), On Borrowed Time (La Mirada Theatre), Grown Ups (Mark Taper Forum), Street Dreams (Zephyr Theatre), Lovers And Other Strangers (Lee Strasberg Theatre), 'A.R. Gurney' (qv)'s Scenes From American Life (Skylight Theatre) and 'Michael Cristopher' (qv)s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Shadow Box (Theatre 40), among many others. In New York, Fields appeared both Off and Off-Off Broadway in The Subject Was Roses, A View From The Bridge, The Rimers Of Eldritch, Rites Of Passage, Spilt Milk, The Ward, Two Ladies Talking, Mother Love and The Poseur. Her film credits include _Mr. Saturday Night (1992)_ (qv) with 'Billy Crystal' (qv), _Dad (1989)_ (qv) with 'Jack Lemmon' (qv), _No Way Out (1987)_ (qv) with 'Kevin Costner' (qv), _Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)_ (qv) with 'Tom Selleck' (qv), 'John Cassavetes' (qv) _Big Trouble (1986)_ (qv), 'Blake Edwards' (qv) _Micki + Maude (1984)_ (qv), 'William Friedkin' (qv) _Rampage (1987)_ (qv) and 'Renée Taylor' (qv) and 'Joe Bologna' (qv)s _Love Is All There Is (1996)_ (qv). Movies for television include HBO's _Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)_ (qv) with 'Mira Sorvino' (qv) and 'Ashley Judd' (qv), _Following Her Heart (1994)_ (qv) directed by 'Lee Grant' (qv), TNT's _Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994)_ (qv) with 'Diane Keaton' (qv), _My First Love (1988)_ (qv) with 'Bea Arthur' (qv) and _The Rockford Files (1974)_ (qv) with 'James Garner' (qv). She has guest starred on numerous television series including _Seinfeld (1989)_ (qv), _Murphy Brown (1988)_ (qv), _Picket Fences (1992)_ (qv), _Caroline in the City (1995)_ (qv), _L.A. Law (1986)_ (qv), _Cagney & Lacey (1981)_ (qv), _Brooklyn Bridge (1991)_ (qv) and _Ned and Stacey (1995)_ (qv), among others. Fields graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and went on to study with such legendary acting teachers as 'Stella Adler' (qv), 'Robert Lewis' (qv), 'Herbert Berghof' (qv) and 'William Hickey' (qv). She is a member of the Actors Studio.::E. Fields