Kerry Lauren Fox[ which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards.
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Early life
Fox was born in Lower Hutt, Wellington. She graduated from in 1987 with a Diploma in Acting.
Career
Fox 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,[ and was nominated for the Canadian Genie Award for her supporting role in The Hanging Garden.
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For her role as Claire in Intimacy (2001), directed by Patrice Chéreau, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. In this film she performed unsimulated fellatio. Her husband, Alexander Linklater, wrote about the experience of watching her perform this act on another man.
In 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.
Fox starred as criminal matriarch Frankie in the ABC series Bay Of Fires for two seasons between 2023 - 2025.
Personal life
Fox is married to journalist Alexander Linklater. They have two sons.
Filmography
Film
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| 1990 | | Janet Frame | |
| 1992 | | Vicki | |
| 1993 | Friends | Sophie Gordon | |
| 1994 | The Last Tattoo | Kelly Towne | |
| 1994 | Country Life | Sally Voysey | |
| 1994 | A Village Affair | Clodagh Unwin | |
| 1994 | Shallow Grave | Juliet Miller | |
| 1995 | Saigon Baby | Kate Cooper | |
| 1995 | The Affair | Maggie Leyland | |
| 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 | Hannah | |
| 2017 | Mayhem | Irene Smythe | |
| 2019 | Top End Wedding | Hampton | |
| 2019 | Little Joe | Bella | |
| 2019 | Rare Beasts | Marion | |
| 2021 | The Colour Room | Ann Cliff | |
Television
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| 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 | Falcón | Manuela Falcón | "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 |
| 2016 | National Treasure | Zoe Darwin | TV miniseries |
| 2017 | Death in Paradise | Linda Taylor | Series 6 Episode 3 The Impossible Murder |
| 2018 | The Split | Judge Joyce Aspen | TV miniseries |
| 2018 | Medusa's Ankles | Susannah | Short TV film |
| 2020 | Last Tango in Halifax | Nadine | TV series |
| 2022 | Conversations with Friends | Valerie Taylor-Gates | TV miniseries; 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Bay of Fires | Frankie McLeish | TV series |
| 2025 | The Stolen Girl | Deborah Stanton | TV miniseries; 2 episodes |
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