An actress best known as Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey, the lone African American student and consummate gossip at the exclusive Eastland Preparatory School for Women on NBC's sitcom The Facts of Life (1979-1988), Kim Fields actually appeared on several popular series in the 1970s-2000s. The Big Apple native grew up in a single-parent household and began acting in commercials well before she reached her teens, making her most widely seen appearance on an advertisement for Mrs. Butterworth's syrup. She made her foray into acting with scattered guest appearances on Good Times in 1978 and signed for the Facts of Life role one year later, at the age of 10, when Norman Lear (the producer of both Times and Facts) tapped her for that part. Fields remained with the program for its entire nine-year run, a run that witnessed numerous changes in the show's lineup and format, including the replacement of star Charlotte Rae with Cloris Leachman, and a change of venue in 1985. About five years after Facts folded in 1988, Fields scored her second major coup with a much different multiseason role as Regine Hunter, a loose, money-hungry employee of a clothing boutique on the urban-oriented Queen Latifah sitcom Living Single (1993-1998). Fields spent the following years appearing in scattered features, such as the 2000 telemovie Hidden Blessings and the 2001 telemovie Facts of Life Reunion (which reunited her with several of her ex-costars), and making guest appearances on programs including The Drew Carey Show and The Division; she also took time out to start a family.
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Intimate Portrait: Kim Fields
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2001 | |||
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Me & Mrs. Jones
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2001 | |||
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Hidden Blessings
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2000 | |||
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Uninvited Guest
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1999 | |||
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Living Single: Season 05
Actor |
1997 | |||
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Living Single: Season 04
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1996 | |||
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Living Single: Season 03
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1995 | |||
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Living Single: Season 02
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1994 | |||
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Living Single: Season 01
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1993 | |||
| 1993 | ||||
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It's O.K. to Say No to Drugs
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1988 | |||
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Kids Have Rights Too!
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1987 | |||
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| 1982 | ||||
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Children of Divorce
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1980 | |||
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The Comeback Kid
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1980 | |||
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Good Times: The Physical
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1979 | |||
| 1979 | ||||
| 1978 |









