Emilia Fox
Also Known As: Emilia Lydia Rose Fox, Эмилия Фокс, Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox, Εμίλια Φοξ, Εμίλια Ρόουζ Ελίζαμπεθ Φοξ, Εμίλια Λυδία Ρόουζ Φοξ, 에밀리아 폭스, امیلیا فاکس
Biography: Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an English actress and presenter whose career is primarily in British television. Her feature film debut was in Roman Polanski's film The Pianist (2002). Her other motion pictures include the Italian–French–British romance-drama The Soul Keeper (2002), for which she won the Flaiano Film Award for Best Actress; the drama The Republic of Love (2003); the comedy-drama Things to Do Before You're 30 (2005); the black comedy Keeping Mum (2005); the romantic comedy-drama Cashback (2006); the drama Flashbacks of a Fool (2008); the drama Ways to Live Forever (2010); the drama-thriller A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011); and the fantasy-horror drama Dorian Gray (2009).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: July 31, 1974
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Gender: Female
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The Pianist
Overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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The Tiger and the Snow
Overview: Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Ballet Shoes
Overview: An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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Dorian Gray
Overview: Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Cashback
Overview: After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-17
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Keeping Mum
Overview: A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-02
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Flashbacks of a Fool
Overview: An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-05
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Things to Do Before You're 30
Overview: A smart, sexy and poignantly accurate comedy drama about a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Overview: Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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The Soul Keeper
Overview: Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of internet chat rooms, webcam sites and virtual communication. One evening, Thomas witnesses the brutal murder of a webcam friend and in a vain attempt to protect her he becomes the prime suspect in the homicide. Determined to prove his innocence, Thomas teams up with Claire, a specialist in internet crimes to uncover the truth. To expose the murderer, Claire and Thomas decide to set up their own webcam site using Claire as the cyber bait. Somewhere down the line the truth becomes blurred and Thomas no longer knows where to turn or who to trust. As his life starts to spiral out of control, he has to face the terrifying reality that he could be the next victim.........the virtual nightmare has only just begun.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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Ways to Live Forever
Overview: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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The Republic Of Love
Overview: A thrice-divorced radio DJ meets the woman of his dreams but can he convince her of the truth of his feelings? An exploration of love, adapted from the novel by Pulitzer prize winning author Carol Shields.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-31
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A Thousand Kisses Deep
Overview: The suicide of an old woman from her apartment building sends a nurse on a strange journey back through time to try to rectify her past mistakes.
Genres: Romance Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-15
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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Overview: A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance with him if he presents her with a red rose. The nightingale fetches a rose, but at a terrible price...
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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Suspension of Disbelief
Overview: Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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The Wipers Times
Overview: When Captain Fred Roberts discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916, he decided to publish a satirical magazine called The Wipers Times - "Wipers" being army slang for Ypres. Full of gallows humour, The Wipers Times was poignant, subversive and very funny. Produced literally under enemy fire and defying both authority and gas attacks, the magazine proved a huge success with the troops on the western front. It was, above all, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. In his spare time, Roberts also managed to win the Military Cross for gallantry.
Genres: Comedy War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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War and Justice: The Case of Marine A
Overview: In Afghanistan, 2011, Royal Marine Alexander Blackman shot an unarmed Taliban insurgent in the chest. What's the true story behind one of the most controversial events in the war on terror?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-31
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Bright Hair
Overview: A solitary schoolgirl, prone to sudden blackouts after she's stumbled into a murder scene, gets involved with her English teacher. Then, when his wife is also murdered, questions about what's real and what's made up start haunting her.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-09
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The Man Who Married Himself
Overview: Oliver has a mid-life crisis, and decides to get married - to himself. This is the story of his relationship, and how he discovers some truths about life and love on the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-03
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Consuming Passion
Overview: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the popular romance publishing phenomenon Mills & Boon, a colourful and camp drama which charts the witty and moving stories of three very different women affected by the brand's success: co-founder Charles Boon's wife Mary, daydreaming 1970s writer Janet and modern-day literature lecturer Kirstie.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-02
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Penguin
Overview: Ben is delighted when he rips open his present and finds a penguin inside. “Hello, Penguin!” says Ben. Penguin says nothing. Ben tickles Penguin; he pulls his funniest face; he puts on a happy hat, sings a silly song and does a dizzy dance. “Can’t you talk?” says Ben. Penguin says nothing. It isn’t until a passing lion intervenes that Penguin finally speaks ... and when he does, Ben discovers something that was really worth the wait.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-03
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We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Overview: When Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury's family go on a bear hunt, they are full of the bravado and confidence that the knowledge of failure brings: We're going on a bear hunt, We're going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day! We're not scared. Caves, mud, rivers, forest … whatever obstacles the family encounters, they overcome with reassuring ease. But when their quest is successful, they decide bear hunts are not to be repeated.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Owl Babies
Overview: Three baby owls, Sarah, Percy and Bill, wake up one night in their hole in a tree to find that their mother has gone. So they sit on a branch and wait. Darkness gathers and the owls grow anxious, wondering when their mother will return. But, at last, she does, and they bounce up and down with joy, welcoming her home.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Hideous Man
Overview: Hideous Man written and directed by John Malkovich and produced by Bella Freud is their 3rd film collaboration. It tells the story of a group of beatnik girls rehearsing their work for a performance of their alter ego ‘hideous man’.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-01
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Born Equal
Overview: Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-17
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The Carer
Overview: Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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Retrospective
Overview: A wartime photographer takes the last photograph of his career in Palestine, and later uses it to save his own life...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-14
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Mum's List
Overview: The story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when Kate was diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over her last few days, she created her list: writing her thoughts and memories down, to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons, after she was gone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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Cashback
Overview: Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-01
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Honeymoon
Overview: A newly married couple, en route to their honeymoon, stop at a service station in the middle of the night. When Zoran disappears to make a phone call and fails to return, Dawn begins to wonder just how well she knows her new husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-24
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The Snow Wolf: A Winter's Tale
Overview: A dramatized tale of how wolves recovered in Europe after almost going extinct.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-27
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Jack the Ripper : The Case Reopened
Overview: Emilia Fox and Britain’s top criminologist, Professor David Wilson, cast new light on the Jack the Ripper case. Together, they examine the Ripper’s modus operandi using modern technology to recreate the murder sites to help understand the extraordinary risks the Ripper took to kill his victims. Using the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System (HOLMES)—a bespoke computer system used by the police to help detect patterns in criminal activity—and evidence uncovered within the investigation, results strongly indicate another woman was, in fact, the first Ripper victim.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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Kew's Forgotten Queen
Overview: Within Kew Gardens stands an extraordinary gallery, celebrating the work of one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. At a time when women barely left their parlour rooms, Marianne North's globetrotting exploits defied convention as she travelled alone at the height of the British Empire. From Borneo and Brazil to Japan, South Africa, Australia and India, she fearlessly navigated the world twice over in her pursuit of capturing every living plant on canvas. Actress Emilia Fox tells the story of how this Victorian rebel changed the face of botanical research, propelling her to the top of a male-dominated world of science and exploration, gaining the admiration of Charles Darwin and even Queen Victoria. Retracing Marianne's footsteps and her passion for the natural world, Emilia revisits the awe-inspiring locations of some of her greatest experiences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-26
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Trap for Cinderella
Overview: A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-12
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Blithe Spirit
Overview: A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-10
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The Ghost
Overview: When Spurs legend John White was killed by a bolt of lightning in 1964, the football world was rocked by the tragedy. He was just 27 years old. His son, Rob, was only six months old and never knew his father. The man who was revered by hundreds of thousands of football fans across the country was a stranger…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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The Private Lives of Pompeii
Overview: The Private Lives of Pompeii concentrates on the people that lived and worked in Pompeii at the time of its destruction, as depicted in the archaeology of their houses, their tombs and the surviving documents that relate to them. Emilia Fox introduces us to the themes and ideas that lie behind the structure of the Roman society of Pompeii, themes which are then played out by actors illustrating the private lives of four key characters.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-30
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Who Shot Simon Cowell?
Overview: Simon Cowell is shot at his birthday party, and Ant and Dec are accused and forced to run.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-30
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