Fenella Fielding

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1. #001

   Fenella Fielding was appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama and charity.

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2. #002

   Her best-known role was Valeria in Carry on Screaming! (1966), in which she appeared alongside Kenneth Williams.

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   In August 2018 she suffered a stroke from which she never recovered.

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   For Carry on Screaming! (1966) she had to pay for her own ring, which cost £9.

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   She was known as "Britain's two-sided First Lady".

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   She made her debut with the actor Ron Moody, whom she met in an amateur production at the London School of Economics.

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   She was the daughter of a Romanian mother, who once ran a cinema in Silvertown in east London, and a Lithuanian father.

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8. #008

   On stage she played the title role in Hedda Gabler and Nora in A Doll's House.

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   She was educated at North London Collegiate School.

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10. #010

    A memorial service for her was held at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden on 28 May 2019.

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11. #011

    She died only five days after Liz Fraser, her co-star in Doctor in Love (1960) and Carry On Regardless (1961).

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12. #012

    Fielding was the sister of Basil, Baron Feldman of Frognal (1923-2019), though she held no title herself; Basil was made a life peer in recognition of his political work.

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    Although her brother was a prominent Conservative politician, she was herself a supporter of the Labour Party, which caused some estrangement between the siblings.

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14. #014

    Despite persistent published reports, Fielding was not the sister of the actor Marty Feldman; the two were in no way related.

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15. #015

    She made her stage debut in 1954 and came to prominence in 'Valmouth' in 1958 and the following year in the West End revue 'Pieces of Eight'.

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    Before entering show business, Fielding worked as a secretary (which she said she was very inefficient at) and as a masseuse. She landed her first stage role by answering an advertisement in The Stage for a position at a venue on Notting Hill Gate in Chepstow Villas, a small theatre that could hold only 90 people but rarely sat them; the show was more a concert party than anything else.

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