It’s always fun when real life relatives play fictional relatives in a movie or on a TV show, and that very thing happened on “Living Single.” Chip Fields played the recurring character of Laverne Hunter, the mother of real-life daughter Kim Fields’ character Regina, across all five seasons of “Living Single.” Interestingly, before Laverne’s debut, Chip previously played two different one-off characters during the show’s first season: A character named Bev, and another that was an unnamed bar patron. The veteran actor and musician also served as a consultant on the series, a job that she also did on the shows “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” “Me and the Boys,” “Arsenio,” “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century,” and “The Parkers.”
Like her daughter, Chip also has an affinity for directing and took it up around the same time that Kim did. She first directed an episode of “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” then spent a few more years directing an episode here and there of a few different shows. Once she got that experience in hand, Chip ramped up her time in the director’s chair on shows like “Girlfriends,” “One on One,” and “The Parkers.” Age hasn’t slowed her down one bit, with the 70-year-old directing 25 episodes of Nickelodeon’s “Young Dylan” in the last two years. She has largely given up acting, however, with only four credits since the end of “Living Single” and none since 2007.
It’s always fun when real life relatives play fictional relatives in a movie or on a TV show, and that very thing happened on “Living Single.” Chip Fields played the recurring character of Laverne Hunter, the mother of real-life daughter Kim Fields’ character Regina, across all five seasons of “Living Single.” Interestingly, before Laverne’s debut, Chip previously played two different one-off characters during the show’s first season: A character named Bev, and another that was an unnamed bar patron. The veteran actor and musician also served as a consultant on the series, a job that she also did on the shows “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” “Me and the Boys,” “Arsenio,” “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century,” and “The Parkers.”
Like her daughter, Chip also has an affinity for directing and took it up around the same time that Kim did. She first directed an episode of “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” then spent a few more years directing an episode here and there of a few different shows. Once she got that experience in hand, Chip ramped up her time in the director’s chair on shows like “Girlfriends,” “One on One,” and “The Parkers.” Age hasn’t slowed her down one bit, with the 70-year-old directing 25 episodes of Nickelodeon’s “Young Dylan” in the last two years. She has largely given up acting, however, with only four credits since the end of “Living Single” and none since 2007.