Cirie Fields

Cirie Fields was a contestant on Survivor: Panama, Survivor: Micronesia and Survivor: Heroes vs Villains. She placed 4th, 3rd and 17th, respectively.

She is regarded as one of the most likeable and strategic contestants to play the game and more commonly known as "the woman who got off the couch and played Survivor.

Profile
Cirie Fields was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. She attended St. Francis Nursing School in New Castle, Pennsylvania, where she earned her nursing degree. She currently works as an operating room nurse. Her previous occupations include surgical technician, home health aid, working at a candy factory and telemarketing. Fields' proudest accomplishment was becoming a nurse. Her mother is her hero because she raised six kids with nothing and taught her kids many life skills.

Fields swims regularly. Her favorite sports include running and working with a personal trainer. She loves amusement park rides and watching television. She describes herself as funny, charismatic and compassionate. She believes she will be a useful member of the tribe because she is very strong. Fields' skills include the ability to fish, cook and do some carpentry. She believes she will be the Sole Survivor because people love her cute, smiling personality. Her primary motivation for being on the show is to win and to change her family's life. She is proud of the fact that she was disciplined enough to lose 30 pounds once she learned she would be a castaway on the show.

Fields currently resides in Walterboro, South Carolina. She recently married Clarencio and has three sons from a previous marriage. They have one dog, Sam. Her birth date is July 18, 1970.

Survivor: Panama
Being one of the four eldest female contestants, Cirie was placed at the purple Casaya tribe. Coming into the game, Fields had little outdoor experience and even claimed to be afraid of leaves. However, her social skills and strategic game play would take her far.

After losing the first immunity challenge, Cirie felt vulnerable, feeling that her tribemates would view her as the weak link. She quickly formed an alliance with Melinda Hyder and Ruth Marie Milliman to vote out Tina Scheer (whom she nicknamed "The Lumberjack Lady"), the most productive member of the Casaya tribe yet a social recluse. At Tribal Council, Tina voted against Cirie, but Cirie's efforts paid off and she succeeded in eliminating Tina from the game.

When the four tribes merged into two, Cirie found herself on the outside of a four-person alliance of Aras Baskauskas, Danielle DiLorenzo, Courtney Marit, and Shane Powers. After losing the next immunity challenge, Shane told Cirie and Melinda that who does not go home at the next vote will go next. Despite both's vulnerability, Cirie and Melinda honored their bond with each other and did not campaign against one another. But when Cirie noticed Shane's rampant mood swings as cancer to the tribe, she used this as an opening to break their alliance. At Tribal Council, though Cirie and Melinda both voted against Shane, Melinda was ultimately ousted, leaving Cirie as the only older woman in her tribe.

Over the next few days, the dysfunctional Casaya tribe began to argue, and Cirie sat back and watched the drama unfold between the majority alliance, with Shane's volatile personality continue to grate on his alliance partners. The dysfunction however, was put aside when needed to, as Casaya managed to win the next two Immunity Challenges, giving Cirie time to fully develop her social game and attempt to work her way into the graces of the ruling alliance. When Casaya finally lost an Immunity Challenge on Day 15, the decision of who to boot came down to Bobby Mason and Bruce Kanegai, two other outsiders. Bruce was the original target, but the Casaya women, led by Danielle, decided to vote out Bobby. At Tribal Council, Bobby was voted out in a 3-2-1-1 vote. Cirie was one of only three people on her tribe to not receive a vote at that Tribal Council, proving Shane's words on Day 6 wrong that Cirie would be next after Melinda.

The next day, Shane wanted to leave the alliance of four. He asked if he could take his son's name back because that he had sworn allegiance to the group by. Courtney Marit and Danielle DiLorenzo gladly released him from his promise, and decided to vote him out at the next Tribal Council. However, after winning the next combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, the alliance began to get along again, to Cirie's disappointment. However, Cirie was adopted by the majority alliance prior to the arrival of the enemy La Mina tribe for the merger.

When the tribes merged on Day 16, the Casaya tribe had a 6-4 advantage over La Mina and planned to eliminate them to their last member. When Terry Deitz tried to offer Cirie a deal, but rejected it, stating he "was not in the position to offer anything." As Terry kept winning Immunity Challenges, Cirie and the rest of Casaya tribe voted off his La Mina allies Nick Stanbury, Austin Carty, and Sally Schumann one by one.

On Day 28, Bruce Kanegai had to be evacuated due to medical reasons, leaving only six survivors in the game. When Terry once again won Immunity, the Casayas had to vote out one of their own. Cirie felt worried that Shane and Terry wanted to take Courtney to the Final Tribal Council because of her unpopularity, as revealed in a rather prickly Reward Challenge which revealed everyone's perception of each other, for an easy win. Courtney, Terry, and Danielle planned to vote out Aras, but Cirie managed to flip Danielle to her side. Shane thought the plan was to vote out Danielle, and Cirie left him out of the loop. Courtney Marit was voted out in a 3-2-1 vote, all due to Cirie's planning. From this point forward, while her strategy continued to pay off, her survival skills also improved, as she caught a large fish all by herself, in which Terry claimed as the biggest fish ever caught by the tribe, much to her delight.

When Terry won the next Reward Challenge, which had a family visit up for grabs, he chose Cirie to get a visit from her husband H.B. He was able to spend a day on the island with the castaways. H.B. was amazed of how his wife was doing at camp, for he stated that he was seeing a different side of Cirie that he never saw before. At the next Tribal Council, Cirie, Aras, and Danielle voted out Shane Powers, once again blindsiding both Shane and Terry, who had planned on making the Final Three together. Cirie and Aras now planned to take each other to the Final Two. While Cirie and Aras went on a trip down the Panama Canal during the Reward Challenge, Danielle and Terry were stuck to endure Exile Island together. The two made a pact to the Final Two. After Aras won the next Immunity Challenge, Danielle and Cirie were targeted by both dyads, and decided to settle the score with a tiebreaker challenge. Meanwhile, trying her best to forgo the deal, Danielle begged Terry to give her his still-unused Hidden Immunity Idol. But when Terry refused to, the vote was deadlocked between Danielle and Cirie. The two faced off in a fire-building tiebreaker. After a lively competition, Danielle won, eliminating Cirie out of the game.

Cirie returned as the sixth member of the jury and cast her vote for Aras Baskauskas, who went on to win the game. At the live reunion show, a viewer's poll revealed that Cirie was the most popular contestant of the season, winning herself a car.

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
In the first challenge, despite Cirie fighting hard, she was unable to score a point for her team. Cirie seemed on good terms with most of the Heroes on the tribe right off the bat, with the only exception likely being Stephenie and Tom. After the Heroes lost the first immunity challenge, despite several people bringing up Sugar to vote off, Cirie felt that Tom and Stephenie were threats, but eventually Cirie sided with the rest of the tribe and voted off Sugar. Cirie would later form strong bonds with Amanda, James, Rupert, JT, and to a lesser extent Candice, and that would be proven as they all voted off Stephenie on day 2. Cirie, like all the Heroes, contributed to the Heroes's first immunity challenge win on day 8. On day 11, Cirie was targeted by Tom for seeming to be the orchestrater of her alliance and beign able to make the vote go her way. So Tom and Colby made a plan that involved Tom using his idol and JT switching his vote from Colby to Cirie. JT contemplated the desicion carefully, and in the end JT felt that it was the best choice and the plan worked which caused Cirie to be voted off 3-2-0, finishing in 17th place.

Trivia

 * In Panama, Cirie was the only original Casaya member to make the merge.
 * Cirie stated that after first she believed that Sandra should not have been on the Villains tribe but after Sandra ripped of Sugar's bra, she discarded that thought.
 * Cirie received 3 votes against her in all three of her seasons.
 * Cirie is the only three-time contestant whose starting tribe lost the first Immunity Challenge in every season.
 * Cirie was the first Survivor three-time contestant to be voted off three different times.
 * Was inducted into Xfinity's Survivor Hall of Fame in 2011.
 * Total number of votes against her: 9.