Fenella Fielding (born 17 November 1934)[1] is an English actress popular in the 1950s and 1960s and known chiefly for her seductive image and distinctively husky voice.
Fielding was born as Fanella Feldman in London, of Romanian Jewish[2] descent. The daughter of Tilly (nee Katz) and Philip Feldman, she is the younger sister of Lord Feldman. She was not related to the actor, Marty Feldman, as has been occasionally misreported. Fielding never married.
Career
Fielding began her acting career in 1954, concentrating on stage theatrical productions. She had occasional guest appearances in television programmes such as The Avengers (after being passed over as Patrick Macnee's regular partner in favour of Honor Blackman) and in Danger Man.
She is perhaps best known for her appearances in two of the Carry On films and three of the Doctor films (e.g. Doctor in Clover).
She was the uncredited voice of The Village's announcements in The Prisoner, and co-starred with Tom Poston and Robert Morley in the 1963 version of The Old Dark House. In the film Dougal and the Blue Cat, based on The Magic Roundabout, she voiced the character of the Blue Voice — referred to as "Madam" by both Buxton (the blue cat of the title) and Dougal at various stages throughout the film.
She has played the voice of 'MOOD', a quirky supercomputer in the video game Martian Gothic in a script written by science fiction author Stephen Marley. Since 2000 she has been recording with the book publishing and recording company, Savoy. Her work with them includes readings of Colette, J. G. Ballard's Crash and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. She also made an album of cover songs including Robbie Williams' Angels, Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out Of My Head, New Order's Blue Monday and the White Stripes' Passive Manipulation.
Critical reception
In an article by The Independent remarks that it is odd that she "drifted into obscurity rather than being celebrated", and the same article quotes the The Times as saying her Hedda Gabler was "one of the experiences of a lifetime". [3]
References
Films
Her most recent film appearances were in Wishbaby (2007) and The All Together (2007).
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