Edith Fields

Edith Fields is an American actress whose career has spanned stage, screen, and television. She started at age five, singing and dancing at community events in her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, and later performed in college productions and at Army hospitals with the U.S.O. After graduating from New York University, she trained with Stella Adler, Robert Lewis, Herbert Berghof, and William Hickey, and she has been a member of the Actors Studio. Her Los Angeles theater work brought her a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, seven Drama Logue Awards, and a KABC radio award, with praised performances in Like One of the Family, Nuts, and Avenue of Dreams/Nothing Immediate. On film, she appeared in 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990), Mr. Saturday Night (1992), Dad (1989), and No Way Out (1987). Her TV movies include Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) and Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994), and she guest starred on Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, and Picket Fences.