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Emilia Fox

Emilia Fox
Date of Birth
31 July 1974, London, England, UK

Birth Name
Emilia Lydia Rose Fox

Height
5' 6" (1.68 m)

Spouse
Jared Harris (16 July 2005 - present) (filed for divorce)

Trivia
Daughter of Edward Fox and Joanna David.
In 1997, she played the role of the second Mrs. de Winter in Rebecca (1997) (TV) which her mother, Joanna David, had played in the 1978 version.
Attended Oxford University, where she dated Orlando Wells.
Cousin of actor Laurence Fox
Niece of actor James Fox
Lives in Notting Hill, London.
For a short time in 2000 she was engaged to Eves.html">Vic ReEves whom she met when they were both starring in "Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)" (2000).
Acted with mother Joanna David in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995).
Shares the same birthday with Michael Klesic, J.K. Rowling, Wesley Snipes, Ben Chaplin, Barry Van Dyke, and Loren Dean.
Daughter-in-law of Richard Harris and Elizabeth Rees.
Sister-in-law of Jamie Harris and Damian Harris.
Met her husband, Jared Harris, in 2003 when they both starred in the ill-fated West End theatre production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".
She and her husband have played a real life married couple: though not in the same production. Jared Harris played Henry VIII in the BBC version of The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) (TV) and Emilia played Jane Seymour in Henry VIII (2003) (TV).
She played the daughter of her real father, Edward Fox, in The Republic of Love (2003).




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Emilia Fox - what members say


  • Henry VIII
  • Henry VIII review by A customer from The West Country, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Was Henry VIII an Essex boy???? 26 November 2008
    ...very small niggle would be that HBC was perhaps a little too old to play Anne. Emilia Fox on the other hand, was perfect as Jane Seymour and Emily Blunt was gorgeous as ...   Read customer review
  • Shooting The Past
  • Shooting The Past review by Richardcraze from
    Rated - 5.0 stars A fantastic BBC series 4 May 2011
    ...Billie Whitelaw, Timothy Spall, Emilia Fox, Lindsay Duncan, Liam Cunningham are all fantastic in this BBC TV series. I remember seeing it in the 90s and loved it then. Li...   Read customer review
  • Rebecca
  • Rebecca review by A customer from Chesterfield Derbyshire
    Rated - 3.0 stars Well Made Remake Of The Original Classic 27 October 2004
    ... like remake with good acting and first look at the talents of the now popular 'Emilia Fox' The wife loved it anyway, worth a view if its your cup of tea...   Read customer review

Emilia Fox - filmography


  • Dorian Gray - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Ben Barnes,  Colin Firth,  Caroline Goodall
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Forever Young. Forever Cursed. Dorian Gray is Beautiful. Charming. Powerful. CURSED Young Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) arrives fresh on the London social scene and is taken under the wing of corrupt, devilish Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth) who introduces him to the seedy pleasures of London life. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 7,394 members
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  • Dorian Gray on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ben Barnes,  Colin Firth,  Caroline Goodall
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Forever Young. Forever Cursed. Dorian Gray is Beautiful. Charming. Powerful. CURSED Young Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) arrives fresh on the London social scene and is taken under the wing of corrupt, devilish Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth) who introduces him to the seedy pleasures of London life. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 33,027 members
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  • Flashbacks of a Fool on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jodhi May,  Sid Mitchell,  Eve
    Director: Baillie Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Joe Scot (Daniel Craig) is a washed-up Hollywood star whose hedonistic lifestyle of sex, drugs and celebrity has taken its toll. Flashback to his childhood and small-town English seaside life set to the beat of Roxy music and Bowie. Joe¿s rites of passage as a young man lay the foundations for the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 6,914 members
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  • Ballet Shoes on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Marc Warren,  Lucy Boynton,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Sandra Goldbacher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "We three Fossils vow to put our name in the history books, because it is ours, and ours alone, and nobody can say it's because of our grandfathers". With these words, three orphans embark on an exhilarating journey through the world of show business... Set in 1930s London, Ballet Shoes tells ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,876 member
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  • Cashback on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Sean Biggerstaff,  Emilia Fox,  Shaun Evans
    Director: Sean Ellis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Art student Ben Willis develops insomnia after going through a painful break-up. To kill time, he joins a colorful cast of characters on the late shift at the local supermarket. They all have their own time-killing devices, and Ben's allows him to see the beauty of the everyday world including the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 8,007 members
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  • The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
    Starring: Jean Reno,  Roberto Benigni,  Nicoletta Braschi
    Director: Roberto Benigni
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1997's LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, Roberto Benigni found international success by accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making a moving comedy set during the Holocaust. Nearly a decade later, he similarly uses Dante's INFERNO as a template to mold a romantic comedy around the early days of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 40 members
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  • Keeping Mum on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Rowan Atkinson,  Kristin Scott Thomas,  Maggie Smith
    Director: Niall Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson), the well meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop, is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to his wife Gloria's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor Lance (Patrick Swayze); neither does he notice that his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 36,090 members
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  • Silent Witness - Series 9-10 (5 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Edward Clayton,  Emilia Fox,  Jack Deam
    Director: Richard Signy,  Andy Hay,  Michael Offer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For forensic pathologist Dr Sam Ryan, solving child murders and ritual killings is all in a day's work. But in her search for justice and truth, she must confront her own demons, particularly when faced with personal tragedy. Includes the entire ninth and tenth series of the popular crime drama.
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 112 members
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  • Gunpowder, Treason And Plot (2004)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Emilia Fox,  Paul Nicholls
    Director: Gillies Mackinnon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern explores the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and her son, James I in this BBC drama. Robert Carlyle leads a prestigious cast in this lavish production. Peopled with infamous characters, driven by compelling drama and life with love, lust, politics and prejudice, we ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 805 members
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  • The Soul Keeper (2004)
    Starring: Iain Glen,  Emilia Fox,  Craig Ferguson
    Director: Roberto Faenza
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1905 a nineteen-year-old girl is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich where she has arrived from Russia in desperate condition. The girl suffers from a severe form of hysteria and refuses to eat. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time ever, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • 3 Blind Mice on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Edward Furlong,  Emilia Fox,  Chiwetel Ejiofor
    Director: Mathias Ledoux
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    THREE BLIND MICE is a modern thriller that finds a young computer programmer caught up in a web of lust and murder. Thomas (Edward Furlong) is a young man who spends his time on the internet, surfing various webcam sites. Eventually, he falls in love with the pretty and sweet Cathy. But one night, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 1,227 member
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  • The Pianist - HD (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 614 members
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  • The Pianist on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living in Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 47,147 members
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  • The Pianist - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 1,285 member
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  • Shooting The Past (2 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Billie Whitelaw,  Timothy Spall,  Emilia Fox
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    American property developer Christopher Anderson (Liam Cunningham) has plans to renovate an English country house in order to open a business school. However the staff of the vast photo library already housed there are determined to stop him. It soon transpires that there is a picture of Anderson's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 2,527 members
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  • Rebecca on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Charles Dance,  Diana Rigg,  Faye Dunaway
    Director: Jim O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Rebecca is based on Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of the same name. Emilia Fox stars as Mrs. De Winter, a young middle class girl who meets her rich but aging husband, Mr. De Winter (Charles Dance), while he is travelling. The two fall in love almost ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,369 member
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  • Fallen Angel (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Charles Dance,  Emilia Fox
    Director: David Drury
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    FALLEN ANGEL takes a look at the past of a murderer, looking at the factors that turned a woman into a sociopath. Based on the novel by Andrew Taylor.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 176 members
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Emilia Fox facts

5 most recent films

Silent Witness - Series 13-14 - 4.0 stars
Dorian Gray - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Dorian Gray - 3.0 stars
The Queen - The Life of a Monarch - 3.5 stars
Flashbacks of a Fool - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Silent Witness - Series 11-12 - 4.0 stars
Silent Witness - Series 9-10 - 4.0 stars
Silent Witness - Series 7 and 8 - 4.0 stars
The Pianist - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Pianist - HD - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Double Life Of Franz Schubert - 2.5 stars
The Soul Keeper - 3.0 stars
The Tiger and the Snow - 3.5 stars
Silent Witness - Series 13-14 - 4.0 stars
Free Jimmy - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charles Dance - 8 times - show films
Maureen Lipman - 7 times - show films
Tom Ward - 7 times - show films
Ed Stoppard - 7 times - show films
Thomas Kretschmann - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roman Polanski - 7 times - show films
Maurice Phillips - 7 times - show films
Brendan Maher - 7 times - show films
Rachel Talalay - 6 times - show films
Richard Signy - 6 times - show films