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Chip Fields is an American singer, actress, television director, and producer who has appeared in popular films, television series, and Broadway theatre. She is best known for portraying Linella Gordon, the abusive birth mother of Penny Gordon Woods (played by Janet Jackson), in a four–episode story arc (1977) of the 1970s sitcom Good Times. In real life, she is the mother of actress Kim Fields, of The Facts of Life television series and actress Alexis Fields Jackson.

Early life and career

Fields was born in New York to Patsy, her Jamaican mother and an African American father.

Fields began her career as a singer. She joined Ronnie Spector as a Ronette in 1973 and recorded two singles for Buddah Records.

Fields began her acting career as an extra in the 1974 film Claudine. She has had numerous supporting roles and guest appearances on television. She played an unwed mother opposite Patty Weaver in the NBC television soap opera, Days of Our Lives. Also during the 1970s, she played the abusive birth mother of Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods (Janet Jackson) on the sitcom Good Times.

From 1978 to 1979, she played Rita Conway in the short-lived The Amazing Spider-Man TV series. Rita Conway was J. Jonah Jameson's secretary, the same function as the black Glory Grant from the 1970s comics. She also appeared in What's Happening!!, Hill Street Blues, T. J. Hooker, Roc, Kirk (a short-lived sitcom starring Kirk Cameron), The Wayans Bros., and The Parkers. She played the role of "Laverne", mother to the character "Regine" (played by her real-life daughter Kim Fields) on Living Single.

Fields was a consultant for The Parkers, Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Living Single, and was a dialogue coach for the film, Menace II Society. She also directed episodes of the popular UPN sitcoms, One on One, All of Us, Girlfriends, The Parkers, as well as episodes of Romeo!, Just Jordan, Hannah Montana, Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Meet the Browns.

Discography

• 1973 (as Ronnie and the Ronettes) – "Go Out and Get It" b/w "Lover, Lover" (Buddha 384)
• 1974 (as Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes) – "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine" b/w "I Wonder What He's Doing" (Buddha 408)

Filmography

Acting

Film

Television

Production

Film

Television

References

1. Clemente, John (2013). Girl Groups: Fabulous Females Who Rocked the World. AuthorHouse. p. 408. ISBN 978-1-4772-7633-4.
2. "Chip Fields Filmography". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
3. "Claudine". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
4. "The Happy Hooker". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
5. "Blue Collar". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
6. "The Lady in Red". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
7. "Woman Thou Art Loosed". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
8. "Change at 125th Street". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
9. "Battered". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
10. "The Night the City Screamed". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
11. "The Facts of Life Goes to Paris". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
12. "Menace II Society". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
13. "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 15, 2016.

External links

• Chip Fields at IMDb
• Chip Fields at the Internet Broadway Database

• Living people
• Actresses from New York City
• African-American television directors
• American people of Jamaican descent
• American television directors
• American film actresses
• American stage actresses
• American television actresses
• American women television directors
• African-American actresses
• The Ronettes members
• 20th-century African-American women singers
• 20th-century American women singers
• 20th-century American singers
• 21st-century African-American people
• 21st-century African-American women