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Emilia Fox
  • Birth Name:
    Emilia Lydia Rose Fox
  • Date of Birth:
    July 31, 1974
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Leo
  • Place of Birth:
    London, England, UK
  • Height:
    5' 6"
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Hair Color:
    Blonde
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    British
  • Religion:
    Christianity
  • Education:

    Bryanston School

    Oxford University

Family

Emilia Fox
  • Father:
    Edward Fox
  • Mother:
    Joanna David
  • Spouse:
    Jared Harris

Career

Emilia Fox
  • Profession:
    Actress
  • Claim to Fame:
    Silent Witness - BBC Crime Drama
  • Debut:
    Pride and Prejudice - 1995 - Television Series

Trivia

Emilia Fox
  • Emilia can speak German and basic French.
  • Emilia can play both cello and piano.
  • She is able to speak with varying accents including London, Northern, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Russian, German, French, American, Polish.
  • She won Best Actress at the 2003 Flaiano Film Festival Awards for the Italian film Prendimi l'anima.
  • In 2003 she was nominated for an Eagle Award for Best Actress at the Polish Film Awards for the film The Pianist.
  • She starred in the 1997 TV movie Rebecca, playing the role of the second Mrs. de Winter, the same role played by her mother in the 1978 version of the film.
  • In 2000, she was engaged to actor Vic Reeves, but they broke up shortly after their engagement.
  • In the 1995 miniseries of Pride And Prejudice, she acted alongside her mother Joanna David.
  • Emilia and her husband Jared Harris have played the real-life married couple Jane Seymour and King Henry VIII, though it wasn't in the same production. Emilia was in the TV movie Henry VIII (2003), while her husband was in the TV movie The Other Boleyn Girl (2003).
  • Emilia's father played the role of her character's father in the film Republic Of Love.

Quotes

Emilia Fox
  • "Each episode of Silent Witness I learn about an internal organ, disease or an unpronounceable medical word. You just never know when you'll need it for Scrabble."
  • "People say I became an actress because my parents are. I didn't. I was just better at it than waitressing."
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Biography

Emilia Fox
Last Updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009

EmiliaEmilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is a British actress possibly best known for her role as pathologist Nikki Alexander in television series Silent Witness, having joined the cast on the departure of Amanda Burton.Fox played Jeannie Hurst in the 2000 remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). In 2003, Fox played Jane Seymour in a two-part television biopic on King Henry VIII, with Ray Winstone as the king, Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn and Emily Blunt as Catherine Howard. Emilia 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 the Gunpowder, Treason and Plot mini-series about James I of England and the Gunpowder Plot. In 2005 she played Rosie Jones in the film Keeping Mum. She will next work on Baillie Walsh's Flashbacks of a Fool with Daniel Craig. Fox was born in London, England, the daughter of actors Edward Fox and Joanna David (originally Joanne Elizabeth Hacking). She was educated at Bryanston School and Oxford University. 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.

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Emilia Fox

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