---
name: "Kerry Fox"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kerry-fox"
fi1m_id: "kerry-fox"
imdb_id: "nm0289098"
tmdb_id: 17258
wikidata_id: "Q261531"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 July 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T17:36:46.843389+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."
---

# Kerry Fox

## Identity

Kerry Fox

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kerry-fox
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kerry-fox
- **IMDb ID:** nm0289098
- **TMDB ID:** 17258
- **Wikidata ID:** Q261531
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Fox, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289098/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17258

Actor. Born 30 July 1966 in Wellington, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 July 1966, Wellington, New Zealand
- **Active:** 1990–2016
- **Also known as:** کری فاکس
- **Frequently works with:** [Danny Boyle](https://film.one/person/danny-boyle.md), [Jane Campion](https://film.one/person/jane-campion.md), [John Chapman](https://film.one/person/john-chapman.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (2), 2000s 82 (1), 2010s 75 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 76 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 3, History 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $34m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Fox, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289098/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17258

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*An Angel at My Table*](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md) (87)
- **Apple TV:** [*National Treasure*](https://film.one/tv/national-treasure-2016.md) (78)

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

## Fi1m on Kerry Fox

> Kerry Fox makes difficult characters worth attending to without asking us to like them. We value her emotional candour, but the sharp interplay of *Shallow Grave* is a reminder that her work can be funny as well as exposed.

In *Shallow Grave* (1994), Kerry Fox keeps the exchanges from becoming a contest between two men. Her Juliet Miller is one of the three flatmates Danny Boyle confines to the same flat. Ewan McGregor makes Alex Law's smugness amusing, while Christopher Eccleston makes David Stephens the most unsettling of the trio. Fox gives both someone to play against, and the three-way balance is much of the pleasure. We laughed at their exchanges because all three actors make the flatmates' unpleasant company so entertaining.

The breakthrough had been as the adult Janet Frame in Jane Campion's *An Angel at My Table* (1990). Fox's ability to suggest a complicated inner life made that a fitting introduction. *Shallow Grave* then took her into international independent cinema, where difficult characters have remained a preference. As Claire in Patrice Chéreau's sexually explicit *Intimacy* (2001), she took on a more physically exposed part. That work needs emotional honesty as well as nerve, and both are strengths of hers.

She returned to Campion for *Bright Star* (2009), playing Mrs Brawne, Fanny Brawne's mother, in a supporting role. Moving between leads and smaller parts suits an actor who is alert to repeating herself. Her own account is useful: “When I recognise myself repeating a gesture, it jolts me.” There is more to her work than accepting difficult material. Describing her chiefly in terms of what she is prepared to expose risks overlooking the judgement involved in fitting a performance to the people around her.

*Shallow Grave* also shows how well she works with humour. Boyle's confinement of the actors gives the early exchanges their pressure, though the growing violence is less interesting. Fox keeps the exchanges lively, but we would not pretend her presence cures that weakness. We prefer the film when it lets the three flatmates be funny and disagreeable together, and she is central to that pleasure. Start there for the company, with the understanding that sharing their flat would be another matter.

## Biography

Kerry Fox is a New Zealand actress. She graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1987. She first came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in Jane Campion's *An Angel at My Table* (1990), a role that won her the Best Actress award at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards.

Fox played Juliet Miller in Danny Boyle's *Shallow Grave* (1994). Her other film roles include *Bright Star* (2009), *The Dressmaker* (2015) and *Holding the Man* (2015). She received the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in *Intimacy* (2001).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *National Treasure* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Zoe Darwin — [page](https://film.one/tv/national-treasure-2016.md)
- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, as Patricia Carmichael — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Bright Star* (2009), Fi1m 82, as Mrs. Brawne — [page](https://film.one/film/bright-star.md)
- *Shallow Grave* (1994), Fi1m 78, as Juliet Miller — [page](https://film.one/film/shallow-grave.md)
- *An Angel at My Table* (1990), Fi1m 87, as Janet Frame — [page](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md)

## Complete filmography (81)

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

- *The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford* (2026), as Jean Montagu
- *The Stolen Girl* (2025), series, as Deborah Stanton
- *Bay of Fires* (2023), series, as Frankie
- *The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself* (2022), series, as Esmie
- *The Colour Room* (2021), as Ann Cliff
- *Topping Out* (2021), Director
- *Rare Beasts* (2021), as Marion
- *Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema* (2020), series, as Narrator (voice)
- *Baghdad in My Shadow* (2019), as Maude Robertson
- *Harry Kiri* (2019), as Mrs. Cohen
- *Little Joe* (2019), as Bella
- *Top End Wedding* (2019), as Hampton
- *Medusa's Ankles* (2018), as Susannah
- *Brakes* (2017), as Brinie
- *Mayhem* (2017), as Irene Smythe
- *National Treasure* (2016), series, as Zoe Darwin — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/national-treasure-2016.md)
- *The Rehearsal* (2016), as Hannah
- *Wanted* (2016), series, as Susan Carpenter
- *The Dressmaker* (2015), as Beulah Harridiene
- *Holding the Man* (2015), as Mary Gert Conigrave
- *War Book* (2015), as Maria
- *Downriver* (2015), as Paige Levy
- *Glue* (2014), series, as Jackie Warwick
- *The Crimson Field* (2014), series, as Sister Margaret Quayle
- *Patrick's Day* (2014), as Maura Fitzgerald
- *Sex & Violence* (2013), series, as Brenda Shaw
- *Trap for Cinderella* (2013), as Julia
- *Falcón* (2012), series, as Manuela Falcón
- *Mental* (2012), as Nancy
- *Mr. Pip* (2012), as Mrs. Watts
- *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, as Linda Taylor
- *Intruders* (2011), as Dr. Rachel
- *Burning Man* (2011), as Sally
- *Cloudstreet* (2011), series, as Oriel Lamb
- *Vera* (2011), series, as Patricia Carmichael — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Morning Echo* (2010), as Christine Moffatt
- *Bright Star* (2009), as Mrs. Brawne — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/bright-star.md)
- *Storm* (2009), as Hannah Maynard
- *The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall* (2008), as Jocelyn Hurndall
- *Inconceivable* (2008), as Kay Stephenson
- *The Ferryman* (2007), as Suze
- *Intervention* (2007), as Kate
- *Nostradamus* (2006), as Catherine de Medici
- *Rag Tale* (2005), as Peach James Taylor
- *Footprints in the Snow* (2005), as Claire
- *The Murder Room* (2004), as Muriel Godby
- *Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games* (2004), as Charlene
- *Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)* (2004), as Mary
- *So Close to Home* (2003), as Maggie
- *40* (2003), series, as Maggie
- *The Gathering* (2003), as Marion Kirkman
- *Black and White* (2002), as Helen Devaney
- *The Point Men* (2001), as Maddy Hope
- *Waking the Dead* (2001), series, as Elsbeth Varley
- *Intimacy* (2001), as Claire
- *The Darkest Light* (2000), as Sue
- *Fanny & Elvis* (1999), as Kate Dickson
- *Deja Vu* (1999), as Jessica
- *Shockers* (1999), series, as Jessica
- *Thinking About Sleep* (1999), as Policewoman
- *To Walk with Lions* (1999), as Lucy Jackson
- *Immortality* (1998), as Maria Vaughan
- *The Sound of One Hand Clapping* (1998), as Sonja Buloh
- *The Hanging Garden* (1997), as Rosemary
- *Welcome to Sarajevo* (1997), as Jane Carson
- *The Rainbow Warrior* (1997), as Andrea Joyce
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Betty DeQuetteville — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, as Susie Merrick
- *Saigon Baby* (1995), as Kate Cooper
- *The Affair* (1995), as Maggie Leyland
- *A Village Affair* (1995), as Clodagh Unwin
- *Shallow Grave* (1994), as Juliet Miller — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/shallow-grave.md)
- *Country Life* (1994), as Sally Voysey
- *The Last Tattoo* (1994), as Kelly Towne
- *Friends* (1994), as Sophie
- *Mr. Wroe's Virgins* (1993), series, as Hannah
- *The Last Days of Chez Nous* (1992), as Vicki
- *An Angel at My Table* (1990), as Janet Frame — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md)
- *Tales from the Crypt* (1989), series, as Dolores
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, as Kate Cooper
- *L'Imparfait*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![New Zealand actress Kerry Fox at the Berlin Film Festival 2009](https://film.one/media/person/78215/gallery-54d9e0d65316.jpg) New Zealand actress Kerry Fox at the Berlin Film Festival 2009 — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Kerry_Fox_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29.jpg/1280px-Kerry_Fox_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kerry Fox](https://film.one/media/person/78215/gallery-59a1111ece64.jpg) Kerry Fox — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Kerry_Fox_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Kerry_Fox_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![New Zealand actress Kerry Fox at the Berlin Film Festival 2009](https://film.one/media/person/78215/gallery-22b7dcc1f84b.jpg) New Zealand actress Kerry Fox at the Berlin Film Festival 2009 — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Kerry_Fox_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29_2.jpg/1280px-Kerry_Fox_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cast and crew of "War Book", opening film of the 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam](https://film.one/media/person/78215/gallery-ea70e27f97db.jpg) Cast and crew of "War Book", opening film of the 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/War_Book_-_IFFR_2015.jpg/1280px-War_Book_-_IFFR_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kerry Fox](https://film.one/media/person/78215/gallery-5c1f50694157.jpg) Kerry Fox — Image via TMDB
- ![Kerry Fox](https://film.one/media/person/78215/gallery-1da84ce4a3b0.jpg) Kerry Fox — Image via TMDB

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