| Summary: | Actress Kim Fields was born on May 12, 1969, in New York City. She made her television debut on Sesame Street at age five and then at age seven appeared in a Mrs. Butterworth commercial. Fields acted on the short-lived series, Baby, I'm Back before landing the role of "Tootie" on the hit show, The Facts of Life, in 1979. After the series ended in 1988, Fields attended Pepperdine University and graduated in 1990 with her B.A. degree in communications and film. While in school, she started her own production company, Victory Entertainment. Between 1993 and 1998, Fields returned to TV in the hit sitcom Living Single. In 1994, she received an NAACP Image Award for Best Director; and, in 1995, she received another NAACP Image Award for Best Actress. Since then, Fields has directed, starred and appeared in numerous television and film productions, including appearing on season twenty-two of Dancing with the Stars in 2016.
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