James Fox is the second of three sons, born to the theatrical agent Robin Fox and his actress wife Angela Worthington - aka Angela Fox. His brothers are the actor Edward Fox and the producer Robert Fox. He started acting as a child actor and used his real name, until he reached his early 20s. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. ...
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Parents
Angela Fox, Robin Fox
Siblings
Edward Fox, Robert Fox
Awards
BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Nominations
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actor
Movies
The Servant, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Remains of the Day, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Performance, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Passage to India, The Double, Sherlock Holmes, The Prince and Me, Patriot Games, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, King Rat, Sexy...
TV Shows
London Spy, Utopia, Cambridge Spies, The Old Curiosity Shop (US)
Star Sign
Taurus
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Trademark
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Rich smooth voice
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Quote
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After I made "Performance", for about a year and a half I started to try and reform my life. I thought it was a mess. I did start going back to church and I started to read the New Testament.
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Performance (1970) gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that everything changed.
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[on his 9-year break from acting]: People think Performance (1970) blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.
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Fact
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He was cast as Lord William Holmes in Patriot Games (1992) after his elder brother Edward Fox left the film.
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Joint winner with Julie Christie of the 1963 Variety Club of Great Britain Most Promising Newcomer Award.
He replaced actor John Woods in the Old Vic's early 2006 production of the Arthur Miller play "Resurrection Blues", which was directed by Robert Altman in his London theatrical debut, one month before previews began. The play was widely panned by critics, partly due to the divergent acting styles of the eclectic cast assembled by Robert Altman, which included the Swiss actor Maximilian Schell as Fox's character's cousin.
Fox left the acting profession for nine years (1970-1979) after he filmed Performance (1970) with Mick Jagger. A combination of his father's recent death, the strain of filming and smoking the hallucinogen DMT with Mick Jagger led to a nervous breakdown. Fox subsequently joined a religious organisation known as "The Navigators" which is similar to the Gideons and is closely associated with the ministry of Billy Graham.
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Had a relationship with the actress Sarah Miles in the early 1960s.
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