1. Laurence Paul Fox was born on 26 May 1978 and is an English actor and right-wing political activist.
42 Facts About Laurence Fox
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Laurence Fox's best known role is James Hathaway in the TV drama series Lewis.
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Laurence Fox was publicly critical of the George Floyd protests that began in 2020.
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Laurence Fox subsequently stood in the 2024 London Assembly election, in which he lost his deposit.
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Laurence Paul Fox was born in Leeds on 26 May 1978, the son of Mary Elizabeth Piper and actor James Fox.
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Laurence Fox has two older brothers named Tom and Robin, a younger sister named Lydia, and a younger brother named Jack.
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Laurence Fox is the cousin of actors Emilia and Freddie Fox, the children of his uncle Edward.
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Laurence Fox was expelled a few weeks before taking his A-Level exams, and was unable to obtain a place at any university due to a report about him from Harrow.
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Laurence Fox made his acting debut in the horror-thriller film The Hole.
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Laurence Fox next appeared in Robert Altman's film Gosford Park.
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Laurence Fox then donned uniforms in a slew of film and television features, including roles as a German airman in Island at War, an SS officer in The Last Drop, and as British soldiers in the 2002 films Deathwatch and Ultimate Force, and in Colditz.
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The next day, at a meeting regarding a new project, Whately mentioned that Laurence Fox "would be worth taking a look at".
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Laurence Fox has portrayed Prince Charles, in Whatever Love Means ; Wisley, one of Jane Austen's suitors, in Becoming Jane ; and Sir Christopher Hatton, the Lord Chancellor of England in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, released in 2007.
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In 2013, Laurence Fox played Guy Haines in Strangers on a Train at London's Gielgud Theatre.
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In 2018, Laurence Fox joined the cast of the ITV series Victoria, playing Lord Palmerston, for its third season, which first aired on PBS in January 2019.
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In November 2020, Laurence Fox was dropped by his talent agency Artists Rights Group after stating on Question Time that an audience member's description of him as a "white privileged male" was "racist".
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Laurence Fox had been dropped by his previous managers Authentic Talent earlier in the year.
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In 2021, Laurence Fox portrayed Hunter Biden in filmmaker Robert Davi's biopic My Son Hunter, starring alongside fellow conservatives Gina Carano and John James, the former of whom was dropped by her agent after allegedly expressing some of the same opinions as Laurence Fox.
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Laurence Fox has released two albums, Holding Patterns in 2016 and A Grief Observed in 2019.
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From November 2022, Laurence Fox presented a regular Friday night slot on GB News.
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Laurence Fox released on Twitter an apparent private message exchange with Wootton in which he had reacted approvingly to what Laurence Fox had said.
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In January 2020, Laurence Fox attracted media attention for stating that the depiction of a Sikh soldier in the film 1917 was "forced diversity" in spite of Sikh soldiers having fought on the Western Front in the First World War.
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Laurence Fox's actions were publicly condemned by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
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In September 2020, Laurence Fox attracted funding for a new political party, provisionally called Reclaim, and dubbed "UKIP for culture".
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In October 2020, Laurence Fox became leader of the party, succeeding Jeremy Hosking.
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In July 2023, Laurence Fox stood in the 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election as a Reclaim Party candidate.
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Laurence Fox attempted to stand in 2024 London mayoral election but failed to fill in the nomination forms correctly.
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In October 2020, Laurence Fox announced he would boycott the supermarket Sainsbury's because they "support racial segregation and discrimination", making reference to the store establishing "safe spaces" for black employees, while asking others to do the same.
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Laurence Fox deleted the tweets and explained in further tweets that he wanted to teach people a lesson in calling people something which they are not.
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Laurence Fox took this decision to the Court of Appeal, who ruled in August 2023 that they were "satisfied that the ordinary reasonable reader of that tweet would not have taken the word [paedophile] literally", but dismissed Laurence Fox's other challenges.
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Mr Laurence Fox did not attempt to show these allegations were true, and he was not able to bring himself on the facts within the terms of any other defence recognised in law.
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The judge summarised that "Mr Laurence Fox did not attempt to show these allegations were true, and he was not able to bring himself on the facts within the terms of any other defence recognised in law".
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On 4 October 2023, it was reported that Laurence Fox had been arrested by police on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to ULEZ cameras and encouraging or assisting offences to be committed.
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On 31 January 2024, a hearing was held at the High Court whereby Laurence Fox took legal action against a man who called him a "racist" on social media.
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Laurence Fox sued Mukhtar Ali Yassin for libel over a row on X over four tweets sent during the exchange in May 2023.
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Ben Gallop, representing Laurence Fox, told the court that Yassin had made "seriously defamatory allegations of racism against my client that are bare comments".
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Laurence Fox said in March 2024 that he had discontinued the case; Yassin said Laurence Fox had agreed to its dismissal, paying thousands of pounds of legal fees to do so.
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On 3 May 2024, multiple news sources reported that Laurence Fox was under investigation by police for allegedly sharing an upskirt photo of the broadcaster Narinder Kaur on Twitter.
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Laurence Fox said he "would like to apologise" to Kaur, stating it was not his fault that Kaur was pictured in the compromising image more than 15 years ago.
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Laurence Fox met actress Billie Piper while they were performing together in the play Treats in 2006.
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Laurence Fox said that the pair had been to court many times since their split and criticised the family court system as biased towards the mother.
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In June 2024, Laurence Fox announced his engagement to Elizabeth Barker.