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KerryFox

  • Actor
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Kerry Fox won international acclaim direct from drama school, after playing writer Janet Frame in Jane Campion's adaptation of An Angel at my Table. The role won her awards in Spain and New Zealand. After appearing in The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior she departed Aotearoa for a busy international career, which has ranged from a lead role in Danny Boyle hit Shallow Grave to acclaimed WWI TV drama The Crimson Field. In 2001 she was named Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for Intimacy. Her other Kiwi roles include the "alpha female" head of drama in The Rehearsal, WWll drama The Last Tattoo and Mr Pip.

Screenography

Little Joe
2019 As: Bella Film
2016 As: Hannah Film
The Dressmaker
2015 As: Beulah Harridiene Film
War Book
2014 As: Maria Film
Patrick's Day
2014 As: Maura Fitzgerald Film

Awards

2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Actress: for The Rehearsal

2012 Australian Film Institute Awards
Nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama: for Cloudstreet

“Kerry Fox [...] is remarkably vivid and strong as the haunted adult Janet.”

New York Times writer Vincent Canby, reviewing An Angel at my Table, 4 October 1990

Related images

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Kerry Fox at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kindly provided by Onfilm.
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Kerry Fox in a scene from An Angel At My Table.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Kerry Fox in a scene from An Angel At My Table.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Kerry Fox in a scene from An Angel At My Table.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Kerry Fox in a scene from An Angel At My Table.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.