Kerry Fox

Kerry Fox Biography

Kerry Lauren Fox (born 30 July 1966) is a New Zealand actress. She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards.

Biography

Kerry Fox was born in Wellington. She has had an international career, working in 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.

For her role as Claire in Intimacy (2001), directed by Patrice Chreau, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. In this film she performed real, rather than simulated, fellatio.

In autumn 2009 she appeared alongside John Simm, Lucy Cohu and Ian Hart in the Duke of York's Theatre production of Andrew Bovell's play Speaking In Tongues. In 2011 she played Oriel Lamb in the television adaptation of Tim Winton's novel Cloudstreet.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	'	Janet Frame
1992	'	Vicki
1993	Friends	Sophie Gordon
1994	'	Kelly Towne
1994	Country Life	Sally Voysey
1994	Shallow Grave	Juliet Miller
1995	Saigon Baby	Kate Cooper
1997	Welcome to Sarajevo	Jane Carson
1997	'	Rosemary
1998	'	Sonja Buloh
1998	'	Maria Vaughan	AKA, Immortality
1999	To Walk with Lions	Lucy Jackson
1999	'	Sue
1999	Thinking About Sleep	Police Woman	Short film
1999	Fanny and Elvis	Katherine Fanny 'Kate' Dickson
2001	Intimacy	Claire
2001	'	Maddy Hope
2002	Black and White	Helen Devaney
2003	'	Marion Kirkman
2003	So Close to Home	Maggie
2004	Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)	Mary
2004	Bob the Builder: Snowed Under	Charlene (voice)	Video
2005	Rag Tale	Peach James Taylor
2007	'	Suze
2007	Intervention	Kate
2007	He Said	Julie	Short film
2008	Inconceivable	Kay Stephenson
2009	Storm	Hannah Maynard
2009	Bright Star	Mrs. Brawne
2010	Morning Echo	Christine Moffatt	Short film
2011	Burning Man	Sally
2011	Intruders	Dr. Rachel
2012	Mental	Nancy
2012	Mr. Pip	June Watts
2013	Trap for Cinderella	Julia
2014	Patrick's Day	Maura Fitzgerald
2014	War Book	Maria
2015	Holding the Man	Mary Gert Conigrave
2015	Downriver	Paige Levy
2015	'	Beulah Harridiene
2016	The Rehearsal

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Night of the Red Hunter	Police Officer	TV series
1993	Rocky Star	Dianna Moore	TV series
1993	Mr. Wroe's Virgins	Hannah	TV miniseries
1993	'	Andrea Joyce	TV film
1995	'	Clodagh Unwin	TV film
1995	'	Maggie Leyland	TV film
1996	Tales from the Crypt	Dolores	"Last Respects"
1999	Shockers: Deja Vu	Jessica	TV film
2003	40	Maggie	TV miniseries
2004	Waking the Dead	Elsbeth Varley	"Anger Management: Part 1"
2005	'	Muriel Godby	TV miniseries
2005	Footprints in the Snow	Claire	TV film
2005	Cold Blood	Jan	TV film
2006	Nostradamus	Catherine de' Medici	TV film
2007	'	Polly Lewington	"Pandemic"
2008	Trial & Retribution	DI Moyra Lynch	"The Box: Part 1"
2008	'	Jocelyn Hurndall	TV film
2011	Vera	Patricia Carmichael	"Little Lazarus"
2011	Cloudstreet	Oriel Lamb	TV miniseries
2012	Midsomer Murders	Betty DeQuetteville	"The Dark Rider"
2012	New Tricks	Jane Ross	"Part of a Whole"
2012	Falcn	Manuela Falcn	"The Blind Man of Seville", "The Silent and the Damned"
2013-2015	Sex & Violence	Brenda Shaw	Recurring role
2014	'	Sister Margaret Quayle	TV miniseries
2014	Glue	Jackie Warwick	TV miniseries