Cirie Fields spent nearly two decades being called the best Survivor player never to win the game. Then she went on a completely different show and took home the entire prize. Her victory on Season 1 of The Traitors gave her the winner’s title that four separate Survivor seasons never did, capping a reality-TV career built almost entirely on outlasting people smarter, stronger, and more suspicious than her.
Long before any of that, Fields was a nurse in New Jersey who called her nursing degree her proudest accomplishment, well before television ever entered the picture.
A Nurse from Jersey City
Cirie Tiffany Fields was born in 1970 in Jersey City, New Jersey, growing up alongside her sisters Karla and Cicely and her brother Kenneth. She earned her nursing degree from St. Francis Nursing School in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and built a career as a surgical technician, a clinical coordinator at Norwalk Hospital’s surgical center, and later a perioperative systems director across a three-hospital system in New Jersey. She is married to her husband, Clarencio “H.B.” Fields, and has three sons, John, Jamil, and Jared.
Four Seasons of Survivor Legend
Fields debuted on Survivor: Panama in 2006, finishing 4th, before returning for Survivor: Micronesia in 2008 and finishing 3rd. She came back again for Heroes vs. Villains in 2010, where she was blindsided early by a hidden immunity idol play and finished 17th, then returned once more for Survivor: Game Changers in 2017, exiting in 6th place without a single vote ever cast against her. That combination of four appearances, multiple deep runs, and a reputation for maneuvering around bigger threats without ever getting caught is why she’s widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the show’s history, and specifically the standard-bearer for players who mastered the game without ever winning it.
Winning The Traitors
Fields entered Season 1 of The Traitors as an original hidden Traitor, and her Survivor instincts translated almost immediately. After Cody Calafiore was banished, she recruited Arie Luyendyk Jr. as a fellow Traitor to keep her numbers alive. In the finale, she forced a final vote that would have eliminated her own Traitor partner, but Luyendyk removed himself from the game before the vote could happen, sensing where things were headed. Because a Traitor remained in the final group when the game ended, Fields won the entire $250,000 prize by herself, the single biggest payday of her long reality-TV résumé.
Big Brother with Her Son, and Survivor 50
In 2023, Fields competed on Big Brother 25 alongside her son Jared Fields, adding another franchise to her résumé and another layer to a family that had already spent years watching her outlast people on television. In 2025, she joined Survivor: Australia v the World, competing well into her fifties alongside fellow Traitors Season 1 castmate Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick. Nearly twenty years after her first tribal council, Fields is still one of the few names that makes an entire season’s cast nervous the moment she walks onto a beach.