Kerry Fox

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Kerry Fox (born July 30, 1966) is a New Zealand actress from Wellington, New Zealand.

She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, which garnered her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards.

Fox has gone on to build a truly international career, working far and wide in quality independent films and on television. She received praise and a nomination for the Australian Film Institute Awards for her leading role in Country Life, starred in Danny Boyle's breakout British hit Shallow Grave with Ewan McGregor, and was nominated for the Canadian Academy Award (Genie Award) for her supporting role in The Hanging Garden.

In 2001 she won the Silver Bear for 'best actress' for her role as Claire in Intimacy (directed by Patrice Chereau) at the Berlin Film Festival. Her performance included a graphic sexual act and was highly controversial.

[edit] Filmography

• Bright Star (2009) as Fanny's mother
• Inconceivable (2008) as Kay Stephenson
• Sisters (2008) as TBA
• Rag Tale (2005) as Peach James Taylor
• The Murder Room (2004) ... as Muriel Godby
• Næsland (2004) .... Chloe
• So Close to Home (2003) ... as Maggie
• 40 (2003) ... as Maggie
• Black and White (2002) ... as Helen Devaney
• The Gathering (2002) ... as Marion Kirkman
• The Point Men (2001) ... as Maddy Hope
• Intimacy (2001) ... as Claire
• Fanny and Elvis (1999) ... as Katherine Fanny 'Kate' Dickson
• The Darkest Light (1999) ... as Sue
• Thinking About Sleep (1999) ... as Police Woman
• To Walk with Lions (1999) ... as Lucy Jackson
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998) ... as Maria Vaughan
• The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998) ... as Sonja Buloh
• The Hanging Garden (1997) ... as Rosemary
• Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) ... as Jane Carson
• The Affair (1995) ... as Maggie Leyland
• Saigon Baby (1995) ... as Kate Cooper
• Country Life (1994) ... as Sally Voysey
• The Last Tattoo (1994) ... as Kelly Towne
• Shallow Grave (1994) ... as Juliet Miller
• A Village Affair (1994) ... as Clodagh Unwin
• Friends (1993) ... as Sophie
• Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1993) ... as Hannah
• The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) ... as Vicki
• The Rainbow Warrior (1992) ... as Andrea Joyce
• An Angel at My Table (1990) ... as Janet Frame
• Night of the Red Hunter (1989) ... as Police Officer

[edit] External links

• Kerry Fox at the Internet Movie Database
• Fox interview about Intimacy
• Fox interview about Black and White
• Alexander Linklater's reflections, "Dangerous liaisons", in The Guardian (Friday 22 June 2001)