Fenella Fielding Death
Fenella passed away on September 11, 2018 at the age of 90.
When did Fenella Fielding die?
September 11, 2018How old was Fenella Fielding when died?
90
Fenella Fielding Birthday and Date of Death
Fenella Fielding was born on November 17, 1927 and died on September 11, 2018. Fenella was 90 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: November 17, 1927
Date of Death: September 11, 2018
Age at Death: 90
Fenella Fielding's brother :
- Basil Baron Feldman (life peer)
Fenella Fielding - Biography
Fenella Fielding — "England's first lady of the double entendre" — is an English actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s. She is known for her seductive image and distinctively husky voice. Fielding appeared in two Carry On films, Carry on Regardless (1961) and Carry on Screaming! in 1966.
She was born in 1927 as Fenella Marion Feldman in London, to a Romanian Jewish mother, Tilly (née Katz; 1902–1977), and a Lithuanian Jewish father, Philip Feldman. She is the younger sister of Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman. She grew up in Lower Clapton and later Edgware where she attended North London Collegiate School. Her father at one time managed a cinema in Silvertown, east London. She later came to live in Chiswick, west London.
A 2007 article in The Independent remarked that it was "one of the mysteries of British life that Fenella Fielding, whose wit and distinctive stage presence captivated figures such as Kenneth Tynan, Noël Coward and Federico Fellini, should have drifted into obscurity rather than being celebrated", and the same article quotes The Times as saying that Fielding's performance as Hedda Gabler was "one of the experiences of a lifetime". A 2017 article in The Guardian highlights a career "renaissance in recent years" and describes Fielding as a phenomenal storyteller. "She reminds me of the great raconteur Quentin Crisp – the same love of language, mastery of its rhythms, perfectly formed sentences, and a joie de vivre even when relating her profound despair."
