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Vivica A. Fox

Vivica A. Fox
Vivica Anjanetta Fox was born on the 30th July 1964 and is best known for her roles in Independence Day (1996), Set It Off (1996), Soul Food (1997), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), and Motives (2004).

Fox moved to California to study an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences at the Gold West College and caught the acting bug. While in California she started acting professionally, first on soap operas such as Generations, Days of our Lives and The Young and the Restless. She was cast as Emily Franklin in the pilot episode of ABC's Living Dolls a sitcom and spin-off of Who's the Boss? but was replaced with Halle Berry for the remaining episodes. In another early role saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series Out All Night. She also appeared as Jazz's sister on the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She got her big break in film in two 1996 movies, Independence Day and Set It Off.

From 2004 to 2006 Fox starred in the drama series, Missing on the Lifetime Television Network with Caterina Scorsone and Mark Consuelos. Upon her duration on the series, she was also one of the show's co-executive producers. Fox was a judge on The WB's talent show The Starlet. Fox participated in the third season of ABC's hit television show, Dancing with the Stars, she was voted off after the fourth week. In September 2007, she appeared in the sixth season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm as a mother of a family displaced by a hurricane and taken in by Larry and Cheryl. Then, on October 1, she appeared in an episode of the show The Game. In August of 2008, she filmed Shark City in Toronto. Fox also hosted her own VH1 reality series entitled Glam God(2008).




Filmography

Vivica A. Fox - filmography


  • Junkyard Dog (2010)
    Starring: Vivica A. Fox,  Innis Casey,  Brad Dourif
    Director: Kim Bass
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Audra Buckman, a 19 year old college student, is trapped in a month-long nightmare, struggling to stay alive and uneaten whilst being held captive, half-starved and repeatedly raped by the Junkyard Dog (Brad Dourif) an oddly charismatic but vicious man-eating monster. Audra’s only hope of escape ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 10 members
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  • Major Moviestar on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jessica Simpson,  Vivica A. Fox,  Steve Guttenberg
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    When fluffy, bubble gum movie star Megan Valentine suddenly finds herself broke and humiliated in the public eye, she wanders from the wreckage of a car accident and witlessly enlists in the U.S. Army hoping in vain that it will change her life.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 638 members
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  • Three Can Play That Game (2008)
    Starring: Usman Sharif,  Jazmin Lewis,  Melyssa Ford
    Director: Samad Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The sequel to the 2001 comedy, 'Two Can Play That Game'. When Byron (Jason Winston George) hits the big time, no one is happier than his girlfriend Tiffany (Jazsmin Lewis) - that is, until she catches him flirting with his sly new project manager Carla (Kellita Smith). It's time to call in the love ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 331 members
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  • Cover (2007)
    Starring: Vivica A. Fox,  Louis Gossett Jr.,  Christopher Michael Holley
    Director: Bill Duke
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a man is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of 15 years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keeps the family alive as a deadly disease threatens to destroy all that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4 members
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  • The Hard Corps on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme,  Vivica A. Fox,  Razaaq Adoti
    Director: Sheldon Lettich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jean-Claude plays a Combat Vet who's just spent the last 3 years fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, and is then hired to be a bodyguard to a former World Heavyweight Boxing champ to protect him and his family against a Rap Music Mogul. He sets up a team called "The Hard Corps". Complications arise ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 3,163 members
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  • Getting Played on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Vivica A. Fox,  Bill Bellamy,  Carmen Electra
    Director: David Silberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bored to tears at being played by the men in their lives, three sexy and smart friends decide to play the players only to discover that the game is fixed in a sizzling relationship comedy. Who's to say that only the boys can play when it comes to matters of love?
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 3,185 members
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  • Blast on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Eddie Griffin,  Vinnie Jones,  Breckin Meyer
    Director: Anthony Hickox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Former Navy Seal Lamont Dixon thought he left his fighting days behind when he became a tugboat captain assigned to tow an offshore oil rig. But calm waters begin to stir as an offshore drilling protest turns into a terrorist hijacking. When the hijackers reveal part of their elaborate scheme, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 195 members
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  • Ella Enchanted on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Anne Hathaway,  Hugh Dancy,  Cary Elwes
    Director: Tommy O'Haver
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Ella is under a spell to be constantly obedient, a fact she must hide from her new step-family in order to protect the prince of the land, her friend for whom she's falling.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 14,715 members
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  • Kill Bill - Vol.1 - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Lucy Liu,  Vivica A. Fox
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 3,364 members
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  • Kill Bill - Vol. 1 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Lucy Liu,  Vivica A. Fox
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 92,210 members
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  • Motives on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Vivica A. Fox,  Shemar Moore
    Director: Craig Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Emery Simms betrays his beautiful wife Constance for one night of passion with a seductive stranger, he is concinved he can keep the fling a secret and move on... But in the high stakes world of upper society and shady business, someone is always watching and Simms learns quickly that no ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 367 members
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  • Ride Or Die on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jadakiss,  Meagan Good,  Duane Martin
    Director: Craig Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A sexy and stylish thriller set to a hip hop beat, Ride Or Die tells the story of private investigator "Rad" McCrae (Duane Martin) and his munitions expert partner Lisa (Vivica A. Fox) as they try to find the killer of Rad's boyhood friend Benjamin (rap sensation Jadakiss), a promising rapper who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 575 members
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  • Juwanna Mann on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Miguel A. Nunez Jr.,  Vivica A. Fox,  Kevin Pollak
    Director: Jesse Vaughan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The story of the 'bad boy' of basketball, Jamal Jeffries, who gets kicked out of the league with no prospects and only one skill - basketball. He hits on the bright idea of dressing up as a woman and trying for success in the women's basketball league - and makes it. Unfortunately he starts to fall ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 335 members
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  • Little Secrets on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Evan Rachel Wood,  Michael Angarano,  David Gallagher
    Director: Blair Treu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Emily (Evan Rachel Wood) is a fourteen year-old violinist who is spending the summer rehearsing for the symphony while her friends are away at camp. She lives in a perfect suburban community, but the other kids in the neighborhood have lots of secrets--secret that they are willing to tell Emily for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 226 members
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  • Boat Trip on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr.,  Horatio Sanz,  Vivica A. Fox
    Director: Mort Nathan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this comic romp, suave single guys looking to 'score' with the ladies plan to take a cruise in the steamy Caribbean. However, they accidentally choose an all-gay cruise. Even when they manage to meet some women, they must then explain that they are not gay. BOAT TRIP stars Cuba Gooding Jr., as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,901 members
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  • Two Can Play That Game on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Morris Chestnut,  Vivica A. Fox,  Lee Anthony
    Director: Mark Brown
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Shante (Vivica A. Fox), a glamorous advertising executive, is a heroine to all her girlfriends. She's the one they turn to for relationship advice--Shante seems to have all the answers when it comes to romance and understanding men. So when she catches her boyfriend Keith (Morris Chestnut) seeing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,221 member
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  • Hendrix on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Billy Zane,  Wood Harris,  Dorian Harewood
    Director: Leon Ichaso
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    No guitarist in modern history has attracted such devotion as the incendiary Jimi Hendrix. From his first band the Velvetones at age 16, through his stint as a paratrooper, to his lonesome death in 1970, this film captures the moments that made him a legend. A man of good humour and great talent, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 136 members
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  • Idle Hands (1999)
    Starring: Seth Green,  Eden Ratcliffe,  Devon Sawa
    Director: Rodman Flender
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Anton is a teenage stoner who, one Halloween season, realizes two days after the fact that his parents have been beheaded. He is even more disturbed to learn that the culprit may be his recently demon-possessed hand. With the help of some fellow young drug abusers, some sharp objects (used to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,434 members
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  • Teaching Mrs Tingle - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Jeffrey Tambor,  Katie Holmes
    Director: Kevin Williamson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the king of teen angst and horror Williamson comes this story of straight-A student Leigh Ann (Holmes) whose hopes for a scholarship are in jeopardy thanks to the tyrannical Mrs. Tingle (Mirren). When Leigh Ann and her friends confront Mrs. Tingle about their grades, a series of mishaps lead ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 13 members
    Due for release on 25th June 2012
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  • Teaching Mrs Tingle on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Jeffrey Tambor,  Katie Holmes
    Director: Kevin Williamson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the king of teen angst and horror Williamson comes this story of straight-A student Leigh Ann (Holmes) whose hopes for a scholarship are in jeopardy thanks to the tyrannical Mrs. Tingle (Mirren). When Leigh Ann and her friends confront Mrs. Tingle about their grades, a series of mishaps lead ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,043 member
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  • Booty Call on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jamie Foxx,  Vivica A. Fox,  Tommy Davidson
    Director: Jeff Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Some guys will do anything for a little something - What happens when a planned night of love turns into the double date from hell? A provocative comedy about two couples grappling with the difference between love and lust, 'BOOTY CALL' tells the outrageous adventures of Bunz (Jamie Foxx), and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 791 members
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  • Soul Food on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Vanessa Williams,  Vivica A. Fox,  Nia Long
    Director: George Tillman Jr.
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    SOUL FOOD is a warmly atmospheric ensemble drama set around the abundant table of Chicago family matriarch Mother Joe, whose extended brood orbits around the stabilising force of her sumptuous Sunday dinners. However, when dissent brews between the competitive sisters Maxine and Teri, grandson (and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 991 members
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  • Batman And Robin on DVD (1997)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 12,977 members
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  • Independence Day - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Bill Pullman,  Mary McDonnell
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With a 71 million dollar budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,978 members
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  • Set It Off on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jada Pinkett,  Queen Latifah,  Vivica A. Fox
    Director: F. Gary Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a lifetime of being exploited by unscrupulous employers, pushed around by sleazy boyfriends, persecuted by the police, and unable to escape from the undertow of ghetto life by socially approved means, a quartet of Angelina women arm themselves to the teeth and bust up banks in this ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,986 member
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Vivica A. Fox facts

5 most recent films

Junkyard Dog - 1.5 stars
Major Moviestar - 3.0 stars
Three Can Play That Game - 3.0 stars
Motives 2 - Retribution - 3.0 stars
Cover - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kill Bill - Vol.1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Independence Day - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Kill Bill - Vol. 1 - 3.5 stars
Set It Off - 3.5 stars
Soul Food - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Junkyard Dog - 1.5 stars
Teaching Mrs Tingle - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Why Do Fools Fall in Love - 3.0 stars
Kingdom Come - 3.0 stars
Cover - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Uma Thurman - 4 times - show films
Molly Ringwald - 2 times - show films
Michael Parks - 2 times - show films
Cheri Oteri - 2 times - show films
Marisa Coughlan - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Quentin Tarantino - 3 times - show films
Kim Bass - 2 times - show films
Craig Ross - 2 times - show films
Tommy O'Haver - 2 times - show films
Kevin Williamson - 2 times - show films