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Edith Fields

1939 (87) • Acting

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 Mr. Saturday Night (1992) with Billy Crystal, Dad (1989) with Jack Lemmon, No Way Out (1987) with Kevin Costner, Three Men and a Little Lady (1990) with Tom Selleck, John Cassavetes Big Trouble (1986), Blake Edwards Micki + Maude (1984), William Friedkin Rampage (1987) and Renée Taylor and Joe Bolognas Love Is All There Is (1996). Movies for television include HBO's Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) with Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd, Following Her Heart (1994) directed by Lee Grant, TNT's Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994) with Diane Keaton, My First Love (1988) with Bea Arthur and The Rockford Files (1974) with James Garner. She has guest starred on numerous television series including Seinfeld (1989), Murphy Brown (1988), Picket Fences (1992), Caroline in the City (1995), L.A. Law (1986), Cagney & Lacey (1981), Brooklyn Bridge (1991) and Ned and 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.

Known For

Modern Family

79%

Neighbor / Elderly Woman

2009

Seinfeld

82%

Mrs. Payton

1989

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

81%

School Nurse

1997

Six Feet Under

81%

Quaker Woman

2001

American Crime Story

76%

Bronia

2016

Timeless

72%

Elderly Woman

2016

The King of Queens

71%

Mrs. Hanley

1998

Baywatch

60%

Unknown

1989

B Positive

63%

Mrs. Franco

2020

Magic Camp

69%

Old Lady

2020

Timeless

72%

Elderly Woman

2016

American Crime Story

76%

Bronia

2016

Life in Pieces

71%

Marlene

2015

Grace and Frankie

77%

Brenda

2015

Second Chances

62%

Minnie Wheaton

2013

Meth Head

41%

Nora

2013

Autism and Cake

Alice

2012

Hart of Dixie

73%

Vera

2011

Elena Undone

69%

Older Woman

2010

Modern Family

79%

Neighbor / Elderly Woman

2009

Over Her Dead Body

55%

Mrs. Williams

2008

Next

61%

Old Lady in Casino

2007

The Closer

78%

Anita Casey

2005

Committed

54%

Elderly Woman

2005

American Dreams

52%

Mrs. Murphy

2002

Without a Trace

72%

Social Worker

2002

Scrubs

82%

Mrs. Foster

2001

Six Feet Under

81%

Quaker Woman

2001

My Wife and Kids

74%

Unknown

2001

The Amati Girls

47%

Aunt Loretta

2001

Nikki

59%

Dolores Pritkin

2000

The Bachelor

51%

Edith

1999

Judging Amy

75%

Mrs. Sanko

1999

The Parkers

80%

Unknown

1999

My Last Love

54%

Poetess

1999

The King of Queens

71%

Mrs. Hanley

1998

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