A veteran of stage, screen and television, Edith Fields is the
recipient of the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, seven
Drama Logue Awards 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 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's Scenes From American
Life (Skylight Theatre) and
Michael Cristophers 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
Der letzte Komödiant - Mr. Saturday Night (1992) with
Billy Crystal,
Dad (1989) with
Jack Lemmon,
No Way Out - Es gibt kein Zurück (1987) with
Kevin Costner,
Drei Männer und eine kleine Lady (1990)
with Tom Selleck,
John Cassavetes
Sterben... und leben lassen (1986),
Blake Edwards
Micki + Maude (1984),
William Friedkin
Anklage Massenmord (1987) and
Renée Taylor and
Joseph Bolognas
Love Is All There Is (1996).
Movies for television include HBO's
Marilyn - Ihr Leben (1996)
with Mira Sorvino and
Ashley Judd,
Nashville (1994)
directed by Lee Grant, TNT's
Amelia Earhart - Der letzte Flug (1994)
with Diane Keaton,
My First Love (1988) with
Bea Arthur and
Detektiv Rockford - Anruf genügt (1974)
with James Garner. She has guest
starred on numerous television series including
Seinfeld (1989),
Murphy Brown (1988),
Picket Fences: Tatort Gartenzaun (1992),
Caroline in the City (1995),
L.A. Law: Staranwälte, Tricks, Prozesse (1986),
Cagney & Lacey (1981),
Brooklyn Bridge (1991) and
Ned & Stacey (1995), 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,
Robert Lewis,
Herbert Berghof and
William Hickey. She is a member
of the Actors Studio.
