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Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox (born 31 July 1974) is an English actress and presenter whose film debut was in
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's film '' The Pianist''. Her other films include the Italian–French–British romance-drama film '' The Soul Keeper'' (2002), for which she won the Flaiano Film Award for Best Actress; the drama film ''
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'' (2003); the comedy-drama film ''
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'' (2005); the black comedy '' Keeping Mum'' (2005); the romantic comedy-drama film '' Cashback'' (2006); the drama ''
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'' (2008); the drama film '' Ways to Live Forever'' (2010); the drama-thriller '' A Thousand Kisses Deep'' (2011); and the fantasy-horror drama film ''
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'' (2009). Fox's television roles include the BBC drama '' Pride and Prejudice'' (1995), the
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British/German television serial '' Rebecca'' (1997), ITV Granada's '' Henry VIII'' (2003), BBC's '' Gunpowder, Treason & Plot'' (2004), the 2005
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miniseries '' The Virgin Queen'' (2005) and the ITV crime drama series ''
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'' (2007). She also appeared as
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in the BBC's '' Merlin'', beginning in the programme's second series. Fox also starred in '' Delicious'' (2016). She stars as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama '' Silent Witness'', having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of
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. Fox is the longest serving cast member since the departures of
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in 2012 and William Gaminara in 2013.


Early life

Emilia Fox was born in Hammersmith, London. She comes from a thespian family — her mother is actress
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(née Joanna Elizabeth Hacking) and her father is actor Edward Fox. Her uncle is
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and her cousins
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and Lydia are also actors. She has a brother, Freddie (also an actor), and a half-sister, Lucy. She was educated at the independent
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near Blandford Forum,
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, where she played the cello, and at St Catherine's College,
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, where she read English. Her great-great-grandfather was Samson Fox, a self-made millionaire, and her great-grandmother was the actress
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, sister of Lily Hanbury. Her grandfather was
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, a theatrical agent. Through Hanbury, she is related to the Terry family of actors.


Career

Fox first appeared as Georgiana, 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 television adaptation of '' Rebecca'', opposite
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. In 1998 she starred with Ben Miles in the adaptation of
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's ''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''. In 2002 she starred in '' The Pianist'' as Dorota, a beautiful, blond, non-Jewish cellist who adores the playing of the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman (played by
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). The film was directed by
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. In 2003, she played
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in a two-part television biographical film about King Henry VIII. She also played the
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in ''Katherine Howard'', directed by
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at the
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in 1998. In 2004, she joined the cast of the crime drama, '' Silent Witness''. As of 2021, she is still in the show and has now played the role of Nikki Alexander for seventeen years. 2004 also saw her play Lady Margaret in Part 2 of ''Gunpowder, Treason and Plot'', the mini-series about James I (James VI in Scotland) and the
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. In 2005, Fox appeared in the BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen, a four-part miniseries based upon the life of
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, Fox played Amy Dudley, the first wife of Robert Dudley, played by Tom Hardy, despite appearing in only one episode, her character remains a key character in the series. In 2008 she played Sister Jean in Baillie Walsh's ''
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'', which also featured
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. She also starred in ''
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'' with
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, who would later marry her
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, although in 2016 they divorced. She was cast as
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in the 2004 film ''
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'', which starred
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in the lead role. A whole section of the film focusing on the Frederick/Sellers relationship was removed in the final edit, although she can be seen briefly in a background shot towards the end of the film. The deleted scenes with Fox can be found among the special features on the DVD release of the film. in 2007, Fox was reunited with her ''Rebecca'' co-star Charles Dance when they starred together in the ITV1 mini-series ''Fallen Angel'', Fox played a 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 had previously both appeared in ITV1's ''Henry VIII'', but Dance's role as the Duke of Buckingham was limited, as his character was arrested for treason less than fifteen minutes into the first half, while Fox's scenes as the doomed third Queen
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dominated the first half of the second episode. In the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film ''
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'', Fox voiced the character of "Bettina". The dialogue was written by
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; other actors included Pegg himself and Woody Harrelson. Emilia Fox narrates the popular children's book '' We're Going on a Bear Hunt'' (by
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and
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) with
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in a special edition book and DVD set. She appeared as
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in the second series of BBC's '' Merlin'' in 2009. She returned for the third and fourth series. The same year, she portrayed
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in the
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documentary ''
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''. She narrated the Doctor Who character Lady Winters in the Doctor Who Adventure Game, ''The Gunpowder Plot'', (2011). She had previously played Berenice in the Eighth Doctor audio drama ''
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''. In 2015, she appeared as Julia Swetlove in the BBC's dramatisation of
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's book '' The Casual Vacancy''. The following year, she appeared in series 2 of '' The Tunnel'' as Vanessa Hamilton. In 2016–18 she starred as Sam Vincent in '' Delicious'', a Sky television drama. '' Silent Witness'', in which Fox stars, resumed on BBC1 in January 2018. In 2019, Fox co-presented the BBC documentary ''Jack the Ripper – The Case Reopened'', alongside criminologist David Wilson. In 2021, Fox and Wilson teamed up to present a full series of documentaries looking at cold cases. The second series is due to air January 2023.


Personal life

In 2000, Fox was engaged to the comedian Vic Reeves; she subsequently dated Toby Mott. In July 2005, she married the British actor
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, the son of the
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actor
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. The couple announced their separation in 2008, and Harris filed for divorce in January 2009. The divorce followed the breakdown of their long-distance relationship and her 2007 miscarriage. Following her separation from Harris, Fox began a relationship with actor Jeremy Gilley, and in May 2010 it was reported that Fox was pregnant with their child. In November 2010, Fox gave birth to a daughter named Rose. They split up in 2011. She dated chef
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from 2012 to 2016, and Luc Chaudhary from 2019 to 2020.. She is married to TV producer Jonathan Stadlen. Fox is a patron of the environmental and human rights charity the
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. She is also a patron of the drug, alcohol and gambling addiction charity DrugFam.


Filmography


Film


Television


Theatre


References


External links

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