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name: "Emilia Fox"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emilia-fox"
fi1m_id: "emilia-fox"
imdb_id: "nm0288976"
tmdb_id: 6639
wikidata_id: "Q213257"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 July 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-07T17:01:07.233278+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Emilia Fox

## Identity

Emilia Fox

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emilia-fox
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emilia-fox
- **IMDb ID:** nm0288976
- **TMDB ID:** 6639
- **Wikidata ID:** Q213257
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Fox, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213257, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6639

Actor. Born 31 July 1974 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 July 1974, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1995–present
- **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
- **Frequently works with:** [Julian Rhind-Tutt](https://film.one/person/julian-rhind-tutt.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (1), 2000s 82 (2), 2010s 74 (2), 2020s 40 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 3, War 2, Fantasy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $121m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Fox, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213257, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6639

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Pianist*](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md) (87), [*The Wipers Times*](https://film.one/film/the-wipers-times.md) (74)
- **AMC+:** [*Blithe Spirit*](https://film.one/film/blithe-spirit-2020.md) (40)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Emilia Fox

> Emilia Fox is the actor cinema casts and then forgets to look at; television has had the sense to look for twenty years. Our film reviews barely notice her, which is cinema's loss and not hers.

Watch what Emilia Fox does when someone else has the scene. She does not fidget for attention and she does not vanish; she listens, with a patience that makes the louder person look either better or worse than they are. It is a quiet gift, and the cinema has treated it the way quiet gifts usually are treated, by casting her as the sister, the second wife, the woman with the cello, and then pointing the camera at the man.

She started as Georgiana Darcy in the 1995 *Pride and Prejudice*, a summer job taken while reading English at Oxford, by her own account with no idea about acting. Two years later she was carrying *Rebecca* (1997) as the second Mrs de Winter, alongside Charles Dance, who would turn up opposite her again more than once. Her first feature was Roman Polanski's *The Pianist* (2002), as Dorota. Then in 2004 came the part that has outlasted everything else: Dr Nikki Alexander, the forensic pathologist in *Silent Witness*, which she has now played for more than twenty years and over two hundred episodes, longer than anyone else in the cast. In 2022 she took the title role in *Signora Volpe*, and a producer's credit with it.

We have reviewed two of her films and neither review mentions her, which tells you something about the parts. In *The Pianist* she plays Dorota, a cellist, and we admit we went back to the film looking for her and were a little ashamed by how little we had registered: Polanski's patience is spent entirely on Brody, and the restraint we admired in that film leaves nobody at its edges room to be more than a face. In *Blithe Spirit* (2020) she is Violet Bradman, with Julian Rhind-Tutt, who has been turning up beside her for twenty years, in an Edward Hall remake that swaps Coward's talk for pratfalls and shrieking. She is willing, like the rest of the cast, and the film wastes her along with Dench.

What the cinema never gave her, television did: time. She has said of *The Pianist*, "I loved working with Roman and Adrian [Brody], it was there that I learnt the difference between working on film and on tv." The difference, in her case, is that television let her keep one character for two decades, and the kindness that reads as filler in a two-hour film reads as a person when you have watched it for two hundred episodes. If you want to know what she does, her film credits will not tell you. The pathologist will.

## Biography

Emilia Fox is an English actress. She was born in 1974 in London to actors Edward Fox and Joanna David, and studied English at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Her feature film debut was as Dorota in Roman Polanski's *The Pianist* (2002). Other film roles include Sharon in *Cashback* (2007), Lady Victoria Wotton in *Dorian Gray* (2009), and Rosie Jones in *Keeping Mum* (2005). She won the Flaiano Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in *The Soul Keeper* (2002).

On television she has played Morgause in *Merlin* (2008) and appeared in series including *Coupling* (2000), *Pride and Prejudice* (1995) and *Inside No. 9* (2014). She is a long-serving cast member of *Silent Witness*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Blithe Spirit* (2020), Fi1m 40, as Violet Bradman — [page](https://film.one/film/blithe-spirit-2020.md)
- *The Wipers Times* (2013), Fi1m 74, as Kate Roberts — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wipers-times.md)
- *The Wrong Mans* (2013), Fi1m 73, as Scarlett — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wrong-mans.md)
- *The Virgin Queen* (2006), Fi1m 78, as Amy Dudley — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-virgin-queen.md)
- *The Pianist* (2002), Fi1m 87, as Dorota — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md)
- *Pride and Prejudice* (1995), Fi1m 88, as Georgiana Darcy — [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice.md)

## Complete filmography (68)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Legend Has It* (2025), as Meerin
- *War and Justice: The Case of Marine A* (2022), as Narrator
- *Signora Volpe* (2022), series, as Sylvia Fox · Executive Producer
- *Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius* (2021), as Narrator
- *In the Footsteps of Killers* (2021), series, Creator
- *Blithe Spirit* (2020), as Violet Bradman — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/blithe-spirit-2020.md)
- *The Trial of Christine Keeler* (2019), series, as Valerie Profumo
- *The Snow Wolf: A Winter's Tale* (2018), as Narrator
- *Murdertown* (2018), series, as Presenter
- *The Ghost* (2018), as Sandra White
- *Home from Home* (2018), series, as Penny Dillon
- *Who Shot Simon Cowell?* (2017), as Dr. Nikki Alexander
- *Delicious* (2016), series, as Sam Vincent
- *Mum's List* (2016), as Kate
- *The Carer* (2016), as Sophia
- *The Casual Vacancy* (2015), series, as Julia Sweetlove
- *The Secrets* (2014), series, as Zara
- *Retrospective* (2014), as Sophie
- *Inside No. 9* (2014), series, as Natasha — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md)
- *The Wrong Mans* (2013), series, as Scarlett — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wrong-mans.md)
- *The Wipers Times* (2013), as Kate Roberts — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wipers-times.md)
- *Trap for Cinderella* (2013), as Dr. Sylvie Wells
- *Falcón* (2012), series, as Inés Conde de Tejada
- *Suspension of Disbelief* (2012), as Claire Jones
- *A Thousand Kisses Deep* (2012), as Doris
- *Upstairs Downstairs* (2010), series, as Lady Portia Alresford
- *Ways to Live Forever* (2010), as Amanda MacQueen
- *The Man Who Married Himself* (2010), as Sarah
- *The Queen* (2009), series, as Queen Elizabeth II
- *Dorian Gray* (2009), as Lady Victoria Wotton
- *Penguin* (2009), as Narrator
- *Owl Babies* (2009), as Narrator
- *Consuming Passion* (2008), as Kirstie
- *Merlin* (2008), series, as Morgause
- *Ballet Shoes* (2008), as Sylvia Brown
- *Flashbacks of a Fool* (2008), as Sister Jean
- *Honeymoon* (2007), as Dawn
- *Fallen Angel* (2007), series, as Angel
- *Cashback* (2007), as Sharon Pintey
- *Born Equal* (2006), as Laura
- *The Virgin Queen* (2006), series, as Amy Dudley — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-virgin-queen.md)
- *Keeping Mum* (2005), as Rosie Jones
- *The Tiger and the Snow* (2005), as Nancy Browning
- *Things to Do Before You're 30* (2005), as Kate
- *The Republic Of Love* (2004), as Fay
- *Cashback* (2004), as Sharon
- *Gunpowder, Treason & Plot* (2004), series, as Lady Margaret
- *Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose* (2003), as Nightingale (voice)
- *Henry VIII* (2003), series, as Jane Seymour
- *Three Blind Mice* (2003), as Claire Bligh
- *Helen of Troy* (2003), series, as Cassandra of Troy
- *The Soul Keeper* (2003), as Sabina Spielrein
- *The Private Lives of Pompeii* (2002), as Narrator
- *The Pianist* (2002), as Dorota — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md)
- *Hideous Man* (2002), as Girl on swing
- *Other People's Children* (2000), series, as Dale
- *Coupling* (2000), series, as Wilma
- *Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)* (2000), series, as Jeannie
- *David Copperfield* (1999), series, as Clara Copperfield
- *The Scarlet Pimpernel* (1999), series, as Minette Roland
- *Shooting the Past* (1999), series, as Spig
- *Verdict* (1998), series, as Charlie Moyes
- *The Round Tower* (1998), series, as Vanessa Ratcliffe
- *The Temptation of Franz Schubert* (1997), as Karoline von Esterhazy
- *Bright Hair* (1997), as Ann Devenish
- *Rebecca* (1997), series, as The Second Mrs. de Winter
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, as Nikki Alexander · Executive Producer
- *Pride and Prejudice* (1995), series, as Georgiana Darcy — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice.md)

## Gallery

- ![Emilia Fox](https://film.one/media/person/97665/gallery-0a2e77106b3a.jpg) Emilia Fox — Amy Dudley, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Emilia_Fox.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Emilia Fox (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/97665/gallery-82d889ca9134.jpg) Emilia Fox (2013) — Sean Reynolds from Liverpool, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Emilia_Fox_%288464876318%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Emilia Fox on the red carpet at BAFTA TV Awards May 26 (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/97665/gallery-65108b4ed3b4.jpg) Emilia Fox on the red carpet at BAFTA TV Awards May 26 (2026) — JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Emilia_Fox_at_BAFTA_2026.jpg/1280px-Emilia_Fox_at_BAFTA_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emilia Fox at the TV BAFTA red carpet May 26 (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/97665/gallery-0c20673db42d.jpg) Emilia Fox at the TV BAFTA red carpet May 26 (2026) — JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Emilia_Fox_at_BAFTAs_2026_02.jpg/1280px-Emilia_Fox_at_BAFTAs_2026_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emilia Fox](https://film.one/media/person/97665/gallery-c5e79e041a5c.jpg) Emilia Fox — Image via TMDB
- ![Emilia Fox](https://film.one/media/person/97665/gallery-daf446f0a3e7.jpg) Emilia Fox — Image via TMDB
- ![Emilia Fox at the TV BAFTA red carpet May 26 (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/97665/gallery-129cf7061491.jpg) Emilia Fox at the TV BAFTA red carpet May 26 (2026) — JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Emilia_Fox_at_BAFTAs_2026_03.jpg/1280px-Emilia_Fox_at_BAFTAs_2026_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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