Christina Cox

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Christina Cox
Born July 31, 1971 (1971-07-31) (age 36)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christina Cox (born July 31, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian movie and television series actress and stuntwoman.

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Christina Cox was born on July 31, 1971 just outside of Toronto.[1] She is the youngest of three girls.[1] Her two sisters are named Tracey and Melissa.[2] She studied theatre and dance at the Arts York at Unionville High School.[1] She continued her theatre training at the Ryerson Theatre School of Toronto[1] where she studied for two years.[3]

Cox competed in the areas of gymnastics, track and field and Tae Kwon Do.[1] At one point she had aspirations of becoming an Olympic gymnast but then focused on drama and dance while in high school.[3] She is also proficient in boxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing and fencing and has had training in stage combat, period weaponry and firearms.[1]

She has over 38 movie and television appearances to her credit. Her best known movie roles include the 1999 Canadian movie Better than Chocolate, where she co-starred as Kim, and a feature supporting role as Eve Logan in The Chronicles of Riddick. She received a Gemini Award nomination for her performace of Angela Ramírez in F/X: The Series[1] in the episode Red Storm.[3]

Christina has appeared in numerous national theater productions such as William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" to Jim Cartwright's raw and dirty "Road".[4] She is also credited with stuntwork in Million Dollar Baby, starring Hilary Swank. Her current role is that of Vicki Nelson in Blood Ties, a supernatural detective series based on the novels by Tanya Huff.[5] Tanya Huff said that: "Back when Christina Cox was doing FX: The Series, I used to point at the screen and announce, 'When she's a little older, she'd be brilliant as Vicki!"[5]

Cox was an original member of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends, cast as Lynn, for the pilot episode.

She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.[1]

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