1. Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox was born on 31 July 1974 and is an English actress and presenter whose career is primarily in British television.
25 Facts About Emilia Fox
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Emilia Fox appeared as Morgause in the BBC's Merlin, beginning in the programme's second series.
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Emilia Fox is the longest-serving cast member since the departures of Tom Ward in 2012 and William Gaminara in 2013.
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Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox was born on 31 July 1974 in Hammersmith, London.
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Emilia Fox's mother is actress Joanna David and her father is actor Edward Fox; her uncle James Fox and her cousins Jack, Laurence, and Lydia are actors.
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Emilia Fox has a brother, Freddie, and a half-sister, Lucy.
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Emilia Fox's great-great-grandfather was Samson Fox, a self-made millionaire, and her great-grandmother was the actress Hilda Hanbury, sister of Lily Hanbury.
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Emilia Fox was educated at the independent Bryanston School near Blandford Forum, Dorset, where she played the cello, and at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where she studied English.
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Emilia 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 Charles Dance.
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Emilia Fox played Jeannie Hurst in the 2000 remake of Randall and Hopkirk.
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Emilia Fox played the title role in Katherine Howard, directed by Robin Lefevre at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1998.
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In 2005, Emilia Fox appeared in the BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen, a four-part miniseries based upon the life of Queen Elizabeth I, Emilia 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.
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Emilia Fox starred in Things To Do Before You're 30 with Billie Piper, who would later marry her first cousin Laurence Fox; they divorced in 2016.
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Emilia Fox was cast as Lynne Frederick in the 2004 film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, which starred Geoffrey Rush in the lead role.
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The deleted scenes with Emilia Fox can be found among the special features on the DVD release of the film.
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In 2007, Emilia Fox was reunited with her Rebecca co-star Charles Dance when they starred together in the ITV1 mini-series Fallen Angel, Emilia Fox played a serial killer, Rosie Byfield, with Dance appearing as her father.
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Emilia Fox narrates the popular children's book We're Going on a Bear Hunt with Kevin Whately in a special edition book and DVD set.
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Emilia Fox appeared as Morgause in the second series of BBC's Merlin in 2009.
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Emilia Fox narrated the Doctor Who character Lady Winters in the Doctor Who Adventure Game, The Gunpowder Plot,.
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Emilia Fox had previously played Berenice in the Eighth Doctor audio drama Nevermore.
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Silent Witness, in which Emilia Fox stars, resumed on BBC1 in January 2018.
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In 2000, Emilia Fox was engaged to comedian Vic Reeves; she subsequently dated Toby Mott.
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Emilia Fox dated chef Marco Pierre White from 2012 to 2016 and Luc Chaudhary from 2019 to 2020.
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Emilia Fox is currently in a relationship with TV producer Jonathan Stadlen.
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Emilia Fox is a patron of the drug, alcohol, and gambling addiction charity DrugFam.