Fenella Fielding was known for her seductive image and distinctively husky voice.
21 Facts About Fenella Fielding
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Fenella Fielding Marion Feldman was born on 17 November 1927 in Hackney, London, to a Romanian Jewish mother, Tilly, and a Lithuanian Jewish father, Philip Feldman.
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Fenella Fielding was the younger sister of Basil, later Baron Feldman.
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Fenella Fielding grew up in Lower Clapton and later Edgware where she attended North London Collegiate School.
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Fenella Fielding began her acting career in 1952, concentrating on stage productions, including the Bromley Little Theatre.
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Fenella Fielding was given her first break when she accompanied the then-unknown actor Ron Moody to an audition.
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Fenella Fielding guested in the Hancock's Half Hour episode "The Poetry Society" broadcast in December 1959.
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Between 1960 and 1962 Fenella Fielding played Janet Harris, a liberated secretary at an advertising firm, in the BBC radio sitcom Something to Shout About.
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Fenella Fielding later starred in her own television programme Izeena.
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Fenella Fielding had occasional guest appearances in television programmes such as The Avengers and in Danger Man.
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Fenella Fielding appeared in four episodes of Morecambe and Wise Show between 1969 and 1972.
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Fenella Fielding interspersed these with performances in plays by Ibsen, Shakespeare and Henry James, reputedly keeping an edition of Plato's writings by her bed.
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Fenella Fielding was the uncredited Village announcer in The Prisoner, and co-starred with Tom Poston and Robert Morley in the remake of The Old Dark House.
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In 1999, Fenella Fielding starred in Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson's film Guest House Paradiso.
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Fenella Fielding toured in a production of Lady Windermere's Fan the same year.
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In 2011, Fenella Fielding appeared at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London in an English Chamber Theatre presentation of Jane McCulloch's Dearest Nancy, Darling Evelyn, the dramatised letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh.
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From 2012, Fenella Fielding performed readings of English translations of Greek classics by David Stuttard.
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Fenella Fielding's autobiography was published in both audio and book form in 2017 and led to a number of appearances on stage reading extracts from it in places all over the UK.
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Fenella Fielding was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.
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Fenella Fielding provided the voice to two tracks on the Graham Roos album Quest.
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Fenella Fielding suffered a stroke on 25 August 2018 and died two weeks later at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, on 11 September 2018, aged 90.