Biography

Marneen Fields' multifaceted award winning career in the entertainment industry for forty nine years is a testament to her versatility, talent, and dedication since her early days as one of Hollywood's most famous pioneering stunt woman and stunt actress of the 70s and 80s who appeared opposite major A list stars on 150 films and prime time TV shows, she has made significant contributions across various domains. Her transition from performing stunts to becoming a respected character actress, to singing, writing, composing, script writing, directing, and filmmaking showcases her adaptability and amazing talent.

In 2012, Marneen founded her own independent production company to showcase her array of creative works as a filmmaker of socially conscious projects and true stories, and as a composer of inspirational love songs. A Heavenly Waterfall umbrella where her talents finally converged into one unified creative identity. When she first opened her company, it was titled Heavenly Waterfall Song Publishing and Productions with her ASCAP publishing title being Heavenly Waterfall. She’s in the process of streamlining the title to Heavenly Waterfall Productions, which also serves as the publishing imprint for all of her literary works: including books, screenplays, and audio books. As the CEO, executive producer, and creative director of the award winning Heavenly Waterfall Productions, Marneen has built a lucrative and successful multifaceted career as an independent artist that spans high dramatic and theatrical performance, WGA script writing, SAG signatory productions, filmmaking, directing, editing, producing, teaching the craft of acting, speaking, composing music, and producing music videos. Her creative catalog continues to expand across film, music, books, and multimedia a body of achievements that underscore her influence across multiple creative industries spanning nearly five decades that showcases her versatility and expertise in numerous genres, mediums, and artistic disciplines. Marneen teaches, mentors, and encourages artists through her books, speaking engagements, and multimedia productions with the same passion that has fueled her career since the beginning.

She’s making her directorial debut with her award-winning screenplay "Who’s Gonna Take Care of Me?" based on her mother’s true story. This powerful drama about saving a mentally ill, cancer-ridden, homeless mother reflects her commitment to storytelling that addresses pressing social issues. Part one of the film is scheduled to make its run on the film festival circuit in 2027 as she seeks investors and distributors to film part two. Her deepest wish is to bring the production to a global audience to help educate and support the mentally ill who are homeless and their families.

Marneen’s original songs and music videos are making an impact not only in the United States but also internationally. Her award-winning alternative song, "I'll Never Kiss His Lips Again," is a meaningful spiritual work designed to bring global awareness to suicide prevention. Her award-winning gospel song, "A White Dove of Love," is making the film festival rounds, and delivers a powerful message about God’s love, reassuring the world that His ever-present healing will always be a source of salvation bringing us grace in our darkest hours.

Marneen’s upcoming literary works including her spiritual filmography memoir, "Rolling with the Punches with a Hollywood Fall Girl," and her spiritually advanced autobiography, "Cartwheels & Halos: The True Marneen Lynne Fields Story" further demonstrate her prowess in the literary field as an international bestselling author. Both highly dramatic, inspirational true stories will have accompanying audio books, and spawn offshoots of standalone short story excerpts. First out of the gate will be "Marneen Fields: Scarecrow and Mrs. King, We’re Off to See the Wizard Role of Artillery Dorothy," publishing at the end of September 2026. As Marneen completes the greatest creative works of her lifetime, her legacy as one of Hollywood’s most fearless and multifaceted artists will be leave a permanent mark on the history in the name of charity and good works.

To date, Marneen has won or been nominated for nearly 100 awards in U.S. and international film and music festivals for her acting, stunt-acting, stunts, music videos, song compositions, screenplays, and filmmaking. She’s been interviewed on over 200 television and radio shows, and in magazines and newspapers circling the globe. It’s her unceasing passion to share her remarkable journey of resilience and her astounding faith in God’s miraculous healing powers with the world. Marneen has been honored as an Ambassador of Peace worldwide and recognized as one of the "100 Most Inspiring Personalities in the World" distinctions that reflect her global impact as both an artist and humanitarian whose work uplifts, empowers, and inspires.

Her international bestselling, "five star" rated book, "The Illusive Craft of Acting: An Actor’s Preparation Process" has established her as a leading specialist in the Stanislavski and Chekhov methods of acting guiding actors to transform ink on a page into living, breathing souls and helping them develop a strong craft of acting that will give them the upper hand in any acting situation. On September 1, 2026, the Kindle edition HIT #1 on the Amazon international bestseller charts in Theater Direction & Production. She spent five days at the end of August playing musical chairs with the long-standing works of masters Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, and William Shakespeare. Then, on the 1st, there was a shift as she seized her moment in time and grabbed the front chair. Marneen shared that she won’t feel bad when her #1 rank drops back down and one of the masters in all their immortal power, grabs the top chair again. She’ll always cherish the moment as a full circle reward bringing extraordinary karmic justice in respect to her name not only seeing it next to theirs on the charts, but in the #1 position on the Amazon international bestsellers in the very difficult categories on acting technique. To land on top with them following behind was one of the greatest honors of her career. She’ll be recording the audio book soon to reach a larger audience and will release the hardcover edition in mid-September 2026.

Marneen is a multifaceted artist whose career spans nearly five decades of performance, creativity, versatility, talent, and reinvention a testament to her courage, her craft, and her belief in the transformed power of the performing arts. Through every triumph, hardship, and artistic evolution, her fervor for heartfelt storytelling has remained unwavering. She continues a steadfast devotion to mentoring the next generation of performers, guiding them toward authenticity, discipline, and emotional truth. Her message serves as a powerful reminder that true craft is forged through perseverance, faith, and an unyielding commitment to excellence. As she steps into this next chapter of her career, Marneen remains dedicated to creating an enduring legacy of meaningful work that will leave a flowing Heavenly Waterfall impression to inspire millions around the world.

Marneen divides her time between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nashville, San Francisco, and other U.S. states for live performances, acting roles, speaking engagements, red-carpet award events, and interviews.
- IMDb mini biography by: Heavenly Waterfall Productions Staff

Marneen L. Fields is an award winning entertainment industry veteran whose dynamic forty nine year career has sailed to multiple creative heights. First and foremost, she considers herself to be a SAG actress, having minored in Theater Arts while on a gymnastics scholarship to Utah State University from 1973 to 1976. Her advanced, all around Olga Korbut style gymnastics talent catapulted her straight into the Hollywood spotlight blazing an unforgettable trail. Her legacy began the moment she rose to become one of the most prominent, pioneering Hollywood stunt women and stunt actresses of the 1970s and 1980s.

Marneen's aerial gymnastics, elite high fall stunts, dynamic multi style martial arts, intense fight scenes, versatile athletics, and expert aquatic and scuba talents launched her to the top of the stunt world, and she remained there for fifteen years. She became a rare double threat: a powerful, well trained character actress with a vast dramatic range who could seamlessly execute her own and other stars' highly dangerous stunts. Marneen's precision, athletics, versatility, and fearlessness placed her alongside some of the most iconic stars of the era, cementing her reputation as one of the industry’s most remarkable stunt performers and stunt actresses.

Since 1976, she has left an indelible mark on over 150 big budget films, movies of the week, prime time television shows, music videos, web series, and theatrical productions. Credited as: stunt actress, character actress, guest star, co star, lead actress, and lead vocalist. She has appeared opposite a star studded lineup including Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kramer, James Garner, Michael Caine, Angela Lansbury, Olivia de Havilland, Lily Tomlin, Fred MacMurray, Ricardo Montalbán, Ed Asner, Mark Hamill, Linda Hamilton, Sharon Stone, Lee Majors, Stacy Keach, James Fargo, Irwin Allen, Dick Van Dyke, Lauren Green, George Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Jeff Goldblum, Lynda Carter, Pamela Sue Martin, Bruce Boxleitner, Patrick Duffy, Morgan Fairchild, Robert Englund, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Priscilla Presley, Tom Jones, Rick Springfield, Gregory Harrison, Perry King, Joe Penny, Heather Menzies, Mary Crosby, Karen Black, Natasha Richardson, Michelle Phillips, Misty Rowe, Robert Logan, Joyce DeWitt, Doug Barr, and countless others.

Marneen’s professional life as a SAG talent was dominated by high risk dexterous stunts, but acting roles were her true love. She spent hours daily chasing her artistic dream of becoming a celebrated actress. Strategically, she kept her day job accepting stunt woman and stunt actress roles to build her illustrious resume. It was during these years that the world saw her amazing talent step into the shoes, wear the wigs, and perform death defying feats for 100 of the most successful actresses of the day including herself when cast in a role performing her own stunts. The unique challenges of accepting those roles, regardless of the danger, allowed her to explore a wide range of characters, emotional landscapes, and dramatic styles. Awarding her the ultimate training to stretch her dramatic acting range by transforming herself into the star she was doubling studying their mannerisms, mimicking how they walked, and mirroring their exact movements. It was the best real Hollywood character actress training around. This amazing job gave Marneen a one-in-a-million chance to land auditions with top casting directors, and work on blockbuster films and TV productions filming on the major studio lots: Universal Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount, MGM, and CBS where she rubbed elbows with the industry's most legendary directors and stars.

Marneen was first introduced to the craft of acting and "bitten by the acting bug" while away at college. Once she was back in Los Angeles and now a professional SAG stunt actress, she continued her study at world-renowned film schools like the American Film Institute (AFI). She also invested in intensive workshops and courses led by top casting directors and coaches always with the determination of an artist who never stops learning or evolving. Her most influential celebrity acting coaches were Jeff Corey the legendary actor from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who mentored superstars like Barbra Streisand, Jack Nicholson, and Jane Fonda and Victor French, a distinguished director and co star of Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven opposite Michael Landon. Both of these extraordinary mentors shaped her understanding of the craft, instilling in her the disciplined foundation that would define her as a true actress. Through her intensive training with Jeff and Victor, she was reintroduced to an array of classic masters and playwrights, just as she was in college, and she read and studied everything she could get her hands on by all of them.

Feeling a profound connection to Constantin Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov, even though they differed in their techniques, Marneen delved even deeper into their serious training and techniques. Infused with passion and curiosity, she developed a strong foundation in dramatic structure, character creation, inner monologues, subtext, emotional truth, line memorization, character relationships, directing, and theatrical production. Her immense dedication and training helped her land lead and co star roles in fifteen small theater productions throughout the Los Angeles area. Ultimately, it was this extensive study of the great masters that took her acting to an extraordinary level, sparking the ideas for the technique she would create decades later and publish under the title, "The Illusive Craft of Acting: An Actor’s Preparation Process."

1985 was a phenomenal year for Marneen. She was briefly coined "Hollywood’s Original Fall Girl" and awarded a "Fall Girl" license plate by legendary stuntman J.P. Bill Catching and the Stuntmen’s Association. She was on top of the world, having landed an impressive half dozen large co star, guest star acting roles and large stunt acting roles on major films and prime time television shows. Everyone thought Marneen was destined to be the next Sissy Spacek when a wicked twist of fate came crashing down. By 1986, she suffered residual effects from a previous near fatal car accident that prompted a decade of life threatening abdominal surgeries.

In an instant, her dreams were shattered, forcing her to withdraw from performing live on stage and decline all straight acting roles especially those requiring physical action due to the physical and mental challenges caused by the crash and surgeries. She found herself destroyed and alone on the boulevard of broken dreams, with only memories of her Hollywood success to comfort her. During her long and painful recovery, Marneen discovered a rare blend of artistic depth and spiritual resilience deep within her soul as she found the courage to ride the wake of her childhood dream to become a famous singer. Music became her healing force. With the grace of God, she rose from adversity and transformed her suffering into a new chapter of creative expression. She didn’t stop with just singing and song composition; she continued solo monologue rehearsals and found the craft of script writing brought her eye to eye with her devotion for acting.

In 2012, Marneen founded her own independent production company to showcase her array of creative works as a filmmaker of socially conscious projects and true stories, and as a composer of inspirational love songs. When she first opened her company, it was titled Heavenly Waterfall Song Publishing and Productions with her ASCAP publishing title being Heavenly Waterfall. She’s in the process of streamlining the title to Heavenly Waterfall Productions, which also serves as the publishing imprint for all of her literary works including books, screenplays, and audio books. As the CEO, executive producer, and creative director of the award winning Heavenly Waterfall Productions, Marneen has built a lucrative and successful multifaceted career as an independent artist that spans high dramatic and theatrical performance, WGA script writing, SAG signatory productions, filmmaking, directing, editing, producing, teaching the craft of acting, speaking, composing music, and producing music videos. Her creative catalog continues to expand across film, music, books, and multimedia a body of work spanning nearly five decades that showcases her versatility across genres, mediums, and artistic disciplines. Marneen teaches, mentors, and encourages artists through her books, speaking engagements, and multimedia productions with the same passion that has fueled her career since the beginning.

Her international bestselling, "five star" rated book, "The Illusive Craft of Acting: An Actor’s Preparation Process" has established her as a leading specialist in the Stanislavski and Chekhov methods of acting, guiding actors to transform ink on a page into living, breathing souls and helping them develop a strong craft of acting that will give them the upper hand in any acting situation. On September 1, 2026, the Kindle edition HIT #1 on the Amazon international bestseller charts in Theater Direction & Production. She spent five days at the end of August playing musical chairs with the long standing works of masters Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, and William Shakespeare. Then, on the 1st, there was a shift as she seized her moment in time and grabbed the front chair. Marneen shared that she won’t feel bad when her #1 rank drops back down and one of the masters in all their immortal power, grabs the top chair again. She’ll always cherish the moment as a full circle reward bringing extraordinary karmic justice in respect to her name not only seeing it next to theirs on the charts, but in the #1 position on the Amazon international bestsellers in the very difficult categories on acting technique. To land on top with them following behind was one of the greatest honors of her career. She’ll be recording the audio book soon to reach a larger audience and will release the hardcover edition in mid-September 2026.
- IMDb mini biography by: Calliane Prescott III