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Kim Fields Biography
Kim Fields is an American actress and television director. Fields is best known for her roles as Dorothy “Tootie” Ramsey on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life (1979–88), and as Regine Hunter on the Fox sitcom Living Single (1993–98).
Kim Fields
Kim Fields Age
She was born on May 12, 1969, New York City, New York, United States. She is 50 years old as of 2019.
Kim Fields Mom|Sister
Her mother is Chip Fields who is also an actress. She has not disclosed any possible information about her father so its difficult to source her father. Her sister Alexis Fields is also an American Actress.
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Kim Fields Husband|Kids
Fields were married to film producer Jonathon Freeman from 1995-2001. Fields gave birth to her first child, Sebastian Alexander Morgan, by then-boyfriend, Broadway actor Christopher Morgan on May 4, 2007. The couple introduced their son the following week in People magazine.
On July 23, 2007, they were married in a private ceremony officiated by Pastor Donnie McClurkin. On July 24, 2013, she announced on the talk show, The Real, that she and her husband were expecting another child, a boy. The couple welcomed their second son, Quincy Morgan, on December 3, 2013, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Kim Fields Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $8 million dollars. Much of her wealth came from her role as Tootie on Facts of Life and good financial management over the years.
Kim Fields Early Career
Before appearing on Facts of Life, Fields co-starred in a short-lived sitcom called Baby, I’m Back with Demond Wilson and Denise Nicholas, and appeared in a television commercial for Mrs. Butterworth’s pancake syrup. She later appeared on Good Times as a friend of Penny Gordon Woods, played by Janet Jackson. Her real-life mother is the actress Chip Fields. Kim’s episodes on Good Times were “The Snow Storm” and “The Physical.”
Kim Fields Now
On August 18, 2015, it was announced that she would be joining the cast of Bravo reality television show The Real Housewives of Atlanta for its eighth season. March 21, 2016, she announced that she would not return to the show for another season. On March 8, 2016, Fields was announced as one of the celebrities who will compete on season 22 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Sasha Farber. On May 2, 2016, during a double elimination, Fields, and Farber were eliminated and finished the competition in 8th place.
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Kim Fields Living Single
She took a starring role in the hit Fox sitcom, Living single from 1993 to 1998 as Regina “Regine” Hunter.
Kim Fields Rhoa
Throughout The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 8, being a newcomer, she was constantly bombarded with accusations that she wasn’t a good fit for the series. So for this, she just left Rhoa on her own accord by failing to renew her contract. In an announcement on the Ricky Smiley radio show, She compared herself to Brett Favre leaving the New York Jets and simply said, “I’m done.” She further elaborated, “I think about too, at the beginning of the season, what did my mama say? ‘Get in and get out.’ Listen to your mama.”
She also told The Ricky Smiley Morning Show that she was still grateful for the experience. “It was to be able to do a genre that I’d been asked to do before and finding a way to do it that made sense for my team and for the family. Overall it was a really great experience,” she said. That was back in late March 2016, right after Season 8 came to an end. So Kim won’t be back on the series this year, but she’s happy to be moving on.
Even though only a few months have passed since then, she hasn’t been missing out on any opportunities because she opted out of further seasons of RHOA. Right after she made her announcement, she competed on Dancing with the Stars Season 2. Though she didn’t win, she lasted for seven episodes, putting up a solid showing.
More recently, Atlanta’s MJAC reported that she is working on a memoir that will “be a chronicle of living, learning, and ah-ha moments of self-discovery told with humor, transparency, and refreshing honesty by an inspiring woman who found faith at age 14 and has felt God alongside her through every chapter of her life.” According to the report, the book will focus on both Kim’s personal life and her career in the entertainment industry, and while she may have gotten teased a little bit on RHOAfor her attitude about her career, her directorial experience is real, and she’s still working on that as well.
Her next film will be A Question of Faith, which began shooting in Atlanta in September 2016. She’s not directing this one, but she will be acting alongside an ensemble cast. According to Variety, the film will be “a family’s tug of war between career and family priorities. One family examined, the Danielson’s, struggles to have faith in the midst of adversity, and another, the Hernandez’s, embarks quest for forgiveness. More connected than they know, their lives intertwine in prayer.”
And finally, she is actually touring with a performance that seems kind of like a one-woman show. Overall, since leaving The Real Housewives of Atlanta, she has been able to focus less on fitting in and more on being herself, and that seems to be working out well for her so far.
Kim Fields Facts Of Life
She played the role of Dorothy Tootie Ramsey on the sitcom The Facts of Life from 1979 to 1988. Even decades later, many still recognize her catchphrase, “We’re in troouu-ble!” When the show began production, She was so short that the producers put her on roller skates during the first season so that they could avoid difficult camera angles.
However, she later lost a role as Arnold Jackson’s girlfriend on The Facts of Life’s parent show Diff’rent Strokes because she was taller than Gary Coleman, who played Arnold. In 1984, during the run of Facts of Life, Fields released two singles on the Critique Records label: the disco.