Bio
Emilia Fox is a British actress best known for her starring role as pathologist Nikki Alexander in the television series Silent Witness, since 2004.
Fox played Jeannie Hurst in the 2000 remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and in 2003 played Jane Seymour in a two-part television biopic on King Henry VIII, with Ray Winstone as the king, Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn and Emily Blunt as Catherine Howard.
She also played the title role in Katherine Howard at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, England in 1998.
In 2004, she played Lady Margaret in Part 2 of the Gunpowder, Treason and Plot mini-series about James I of England and the Gunpowder Plot.
Fox was cast as Lynne Frederick in the 2004 film, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers starring Geoffrey Rush in the lead role. A whole section of the film focusing on the Frederick/Sellers relationship was removed in the final edit. (She can be seen briefly in a background shot towards the end of the film.) The excised scenes with Fox can be found with others among the special features on the DVD release of the film.
In 2005 she played Rosie Jones in the film Keeping Mum.
Fox is the daughter of actors Edward Fox and Joanna David. She was educated at Bryanston School and Oxford University.
She had a relationship with comedian Vic Reeves and in July 2005 married British actor Jared Harris, the son of the late Irish actor Richard Harris.