Emma Fielding. Actress: Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born October 7th 1965 in Catterick, North Yorkshire, England) is an English actress. The daughter of a British Army soldier, Fielding was raised Catholic and spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop. While studying at the Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school, she won a place at the University of Cambridge...