| 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. Biography Fox has gone on to build an 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.This was the film in which she performed unsimulated 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. Filmography - Night of the Red Hunter (1989) ... as Police Officer
- An Angel at My Table (1990) ... as Janet Frame
- The Rainbow Warrior (1992) ... as Andrea Joyce
- The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) ... as Vicki
- Rocky Star (1993) ... as Dianna Moore
- Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1993) ... as Hannah
- Friends (1993) ... as Sophie
- Shallow Grave (1994) ... as Juliet Miller
- The Last Tattoo (1994) ... as Kelly Towne
- Country Life (1994) ... as Sally Voysey
- Saigon Baby (1995) ... as Kate Cooper
- A Village Affair (1995) ... as Clodagh Unwin
- The Affair (1995) ... as Maggie Leyland
- Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) ... as Jane Carson
- The Hanging Garden (1997) ... as Rosemary
- The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998) ... as Sonja Buloh
- The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998) ... as Maria Vaughan
- To Walk with Lions (1999) ... as Lucy Jackson
- Thinking About Sleep (1999) ... as Police Woman
- The Darkest Light (1999) ... as Sue
- Shockers: Deja Vu (1999) ... as Jessica
- Fanny and Elvis (1999) ... as Katherine Fanny 'Kate' Dickson
- Intimacy (2001) ... as Claire
- The Point Men (2001) ... as Maddy Hope
- The Gathering (2002) ... as Marion Kirkman
- Black and White (2002) ... as Helen Devaney
- 40 (2003) ... as Maggie
- So Close to Home (2003) ... as Maggie
- Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) (2004) .... Chloe
- The Murder Room (2004) ... as Muriel Godby
- Bob the Builder: Snowed under (2004) (voice) ... as Charlene
- Rag Tale (2005) ... as Peach James Taylor
- Footprints in the Snow (2005) ... as Claire
- Cold Blood (2005) ... as Jan
- Nostradamus (2006) ... as Catherine de Medici
- The Ferryman (2007) ... as Suze
- Intervention (2007) ... as Kate
- He Said (2007) ... as Julie
- Trial & Retribution XVIII: The Box (2008) ... as DI Moyra Lynch
- Inconceivable (2008) ... as Kay Stephenson
- The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (2008) ... as Jocelyn Hurndall
- Storm (2009) ... as Hannah Maynard
- Bright Star (2009) ... as Mrs. Brawne
External links - Kerry Fox at the Internet Movie Database
- Kerry Fox at Allmovie
- Kerry Fox at Yahoo! Movies
- Fox interview about Intimacy
- Fox interview about Black and White
- Alexander Linklater's reflections, "Dangerous liaisons", in The Guardian (Friday 22 June 2001)
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