Emilia Fox Biography
Summary
"Emilia Lydia Rose Fox" (born 31 July 1974) is an award-winning English actress, known for her role as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama "Silent Witness", having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of Amanda Burton.
Biography
Personal life
Fox was born in London, England. Her mother is actress Joanna David (née Joanne Elizabeth Hacking) and her father is actor Edward Fox. She has a brother Freddie and a half sister Lucy. She was educated at Bryanston School and the University of Oxford..
She had a relationship with comedian Vic Reeves and in July 2005 married British actor Jared Harris, the son of the late Irish actor Richard Harris. However, the couple announced a split in 2008 and Harris filed for divorce in January 2009.
She speaks German and French, she is a keen kickboxer. She gave up drinking in 2001 and in 2002 she gave up smoking. She plays the cello and the piano. Fox is an agnostic.
Career
Fox first appeared as the sister of Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", followed by her role as the second Mrs. de Winter in the 1997 TV adaptation of "Rebecca" opposite Charles Dance. In 1998 she starred with Ben Miles in the adaptation of Catherine Cooksons "The Round Tower" as the young Vanessa Radcliffe, a wealthy girl from an affluent family who is forced to leave her home after becoming pregnant. Fox played Jeannie Hurst in the 2000 remake of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)". In 2003, she played Jane Seymour in a two-part television biopic about King Henry VIII. She also played the title role in "Katherine Howard" at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, England in 1998. In 2004, she played Lady Margaret in Part 2 of "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot", the mini-series about James I of England and the Gunpowder Plot. In 2005 she played Rosie Jones in the film "Keeping Mum" and in 2008 she played Sister Jean in Baillie Walsh's "Flashbacks of a Fool" with Daniel Craig.
She also starred in Things To Do Before You're 30, with Billie Piper, who would later marry her first cousin Laurence Fox.
She was cast as Lynne Frederick in the 2004 film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" starring Geoffrey Rush in the lead role. A whole section of the film focusing on the Frederick/Sellers relationship was removed in the final edit. (She can be seen briefly in a background shot towards the end of the film.) The deleted scenes with Fox can be found with others among the special features on the DVD release of the film.
2007 saw Fox reunited with her "Rebecca" co-star Charles Dance when they starred together in the ITV1 mini-series "Fallen Angel", which saw Fox as serial killer Rosie Byfield, with Dance appearing as her father. The rewind format in which the show was shot traced the development of the killer streak of Fox's character. (Fox and Dance both appeared in ITV1`s "Henry VIII", but Dance's role was limited to that of the Duke of Buckingham who is arrested for treason less than fifteen minutes into the first half, while Fox's scenes dominated the first half of the second episode.)
In 2008, she signed up to star in director Richard Blanshard's thriller "Soothsayer" due to shoot in the summer of 2008.
External links
(Newzline.com) Fallen Angel Interview - Emilia Fox (Angel)
Credit
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