Chip Fields

Laverne Bernard, better known by her stage name Chip Fields or Chip Hurd, is an American actress, singer, television director, dialogue coach, and producer who has appeared in popular films, television series, and Broadway theatre. She is best known for portraying Lynnella Gordon, the abusive birth mother of Penny Gordon Woods, in a four–episode story arc (1977) of the 1970s sitcom Good Times.