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2004
Lynne Frederick (his fourth wife) in The Life and Death Of Peter Sellers, an HBO feature film, written by Lee Hall & Roger Lewis, directed by Stephen Hopkins, with Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers.

Alas, her scenes had to be cut from this film, for reasons of running time, but you can still spot her in the background of the scene where he's filming part of Being There.

[UK: Available on Region 2 DVD, D025396, £16.
N America: Available on Region 1 DVD, ASIN:B0007R4SX6, US$27.]

2003 December 26
The voice of the Nightingale in The Nightingale and the Rose, from Lupus Films for Channel 4, one of Wilde Stories, a series of 3 x 25-min animated adaptations of short stories written by Oscar Wilde.

The text of this classic short story can be read here.

[UK: Wilde Stories, with all 3 programs, is available on Region 2 PAL DVD, VCD0336, price £13; and PAL video, VC7063, price £10.]

2003 December 3 to 2004 January 10
La Présidente de Tourvel, in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the play by Christopher Hampton, adapted from the 1782 novel by Choderlos de Laclos, at the Playhouse, London, directed by Tim Fywell (again), with Jared Harris as the Vicomte de Valmont & Polly Walker as the Marquise de Merteuil.

Notices included:
2003 December 2
Nella, in Missing Pieces, a 45-min BBC Radio 4 drama, written by Elspeth Sandys directed by Jane Morgan, with Monica Dolan as Morag Simcock.

2003 November 24 to 28
Joan, in Love Lessons, a 5 x 15-min BBC Radio 4 drama series of the work by Joan Wyndham, adapted by Jonathan Dryden, directed by Peter Faraday, with Julian Ovenden as Rupert Darrow.

2003 October 12 & 19
Jane Seymour (his third wife), in Henry VIII, a 2 x 120-min drama from ITV1, directed by Pete Travis (again), with Ray Winstone as Henry VIII, Thomas Lockyer as Edward Seymour & Christopher Good as Sir John Seymour.
A set of screen captures from the first part, from scenes dimly lit by firelight & candlelight:
[Emilia Fox as Jane Seymour in 'Henry VIII'] [Emilia Fox as Jane Seymour in 'Henry VIII'] [Emilia Fox as Jane Seymour in 'Henry VIII'] [Emilia Fox as Jane Seymour in 'Henry VIII']

[UK: Available on double Region 2 PAL DVD, GVD093, price £20; and double PAL video, GV0543, price £17.]

2003 September 25
Narrator of Lady Chatterley's Lover, an abridgement of the novel by D H Lawrence, on a talking-book cassette-tape or CD set.

[UK: Available on CSA Word CD, price £16; and CSA Word Cassettes, ISBN 1901768961, price £14.]

[Emilia Fox as Fay McLeod, with Bruce Greenwood as Tom Avery, in 'The Republic of Love']
2003 September 11
Fay McLeod, the lead female rôle, in The Republic of Love, a 96 min feature film, written by Deepa Mehta & Esta Spalding from the 1992 novel by Carol Shields, directed by Deepa Mehta, with Bruce Greenwood as Tom Avery, her father Edward Fox as Mr McLeod, her character's father & Martha Henry as Mrs Audrey McLeod.

Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 September.  There are a number of reviews on the net, the best of which, containing a mini-interview, is here.  There is a promotional webpage at www.republicoflove.net, with an image of the poster, links to people connected with the film and a mailing list for information updates.  The film was shot in Toronto, Canada in 2002 November & December.

Notices included:
[N America: Available on Region 1 NTSC DVD, ASIN:B0006VD398, price US$30.]

2003 July 14
Reader of Carlyle's House and Other Sketches, a 15 min BBC Radio 4 program, an abridgement by Duncan Minshull of newly uncovered material by Virginia Woolf.

2003
Co-narrator, with Lorelei King, of Sorceress, the 2002 children's novel by Celia Rees, on a talking-book four-cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on Bloomsbury Audio Books, ISBN 0747563993, price £15.]

[Emilia Fox as Claire Bligh in '3 Blind Mice']
2003 June 21
Claire Bligh, a cyber-detective and the lead female rôle, in 3 Blind Mice (US title: Three Blind Mice; French title: Une Souris Verte), a 90 min feature film written by Mikaël Ollivier, based on an original story by Mikaël Ollivier & Raymond Clarinard, directed by Mathias Ledoux, with Edward Furlong as Thomas Cross, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mark Hayward & Ben Miles as Insp Lindsey.

There is now a full promotional website at www.1sourisverte.com, following its general release in France on Oct 8.  The film was shot in London & Paris in 2002.  The photo at right is from the film or its promotional material.  There's a webpage about it here.  Rob van Houten has made a set of screen shots available here.

[Europe: Available on Region 2 DVD in some countries, and on PAL video, High Flyers Video HFV8538.
N America: Available on Region 1 NTSC DVD from First Look Home Entertainment, ASIN:B0000C504B, price US$25; and NTSC video from First Look Home Entertainment, ASIN:B0000C825X, price US$58.]

2003 May 5 to 16
Caroline Abbott, in Where Angels Fear to Tread, a 10 x 15-min BBC Radio 4 drama series of the 1905 novel by E M Forster, adapted by Penny Leicester, directed by Di Speirs, with Jamie Bamber as Philip.

2003 April 20
Cassandra in Helen of Troy a 4-hr mini-series from USA Network, directed by John (Kent) Harrison, with Rufus Sewell as Agamemnon, Stellan Skarsgård as Theseus, Matthew Marsden as Paris & Sienna Guillory as Helen.

Filmed in Malta in August & September 2002. 

[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, price £18.
N America: Available on Region 1 NTSC DVD, ASIN:B00005JMH8, price $27; and NTSC video, ASIN:B0000A02U0, price $27.]

2003 April
Co-narrator, with David Tennant, of The Merlin Conspiracy, the novel by Diana Wynne Jones, on a talking-book cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on ISBN 0007161107, price £13.]

2003 April
Narrator of Dr Franklin's Island, the 2001 novel by Ann Halam, on a talking-book cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on Chivers Audio Books, ISBN 0754064018, price £40.]

2003 January 14
Sabina Spielrein in The Soul Keeper (Italian title is Prendimi l'Anima; working title was My Name is Sabina Spielrein; not to be confused with the horror film Soulkeeper [2001]), a 98-min feature film (costing $6m) written by Christopher Hampton & Roberto Faenza, directed by Roberto Faenza, with Iain Glen as Carl Jung.

Spielrein (1885-1941) was a patient of Jung's, with whom she later had an affair, and who later became a doctor & psychiatrist herself.  Filmed in Russia & Italy in Spring 2002.

Had a hugely successful general release in Italy, with excellent reviews; still awaiting release elsewhere?.  There is a promotional website for the film, www.medusa.it/prendimilanima, where there are several great photos of Ms Fox in the gallery, and a trailer.  There are also some excellent stills of her in character at cinenews.be.

[Italy: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, price €25.]

2002 October
One of two characters in a radio advert for Lloyds TSB Insurance Services.  Listen to an MP3 of it.  She's the one saying: "So have you run into that bloke again?"; "Get his number?"; "Brother?"; and "Does he have a brother?".

[Emilia Fox as Dorota in 'The Pianist']
2002 October 9
Dorota Drikiewicz in The Pianist, a feature film written by Ronald Harwood & Roman Polanski from the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman, directed by Roman Polanski, with Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman, Frank Finlay as Ojciec Szpilman & Maureen Lipman as Matka Szpilman. 

This film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2002, where Ms Fox was present for the afternoon photocall and evening screening (1, 2) on May 24.  It has won many other awards at the European Film Awards, BAFTAs & Oscars - full listing of them here.

There's still the section of the Cannes Film Festival site here.
This set of three screen captures from the film shows a set of facial expressions
that are so good that nothing else is needed to indicate what's happening:
[Emilia Fox as Dorota in 'The Pianist'] [Emilia Fox as Dorota in 'The Pianist'] [Emilia Fox as Dorota in 'The Pianist']

[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, 8204044, price £20; and PAL video, 8204043, price £13.
N America: available on Region 1 NTSC DVD, ASIN:B000092Q7O / ASIN:B00005JLT5 (widescreen), price US$27; and NTSC video, ASIN:B000094J5T, price US$25.]

2002 September 30 & October 7
Wilma Lettings in Coupling, series 3 episode 2: Faithless and episode 3: Unconditional Sex, 30 min BBC 2 sitcoms, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Martin Dennis, with Richard Coyle as Jeff Murdoch.

A great playing of a seductive temptress in the funniest episodes of what is already the funniest series on TV – I can't say more than "get the video – at any price".  Rob van Houten has put some screen captures online here.

[UK: Available on double Region 2 PAL DVD, VCD0292, price £20, and in a set of DVDs of the first three series, VCD0318, price £40; and on PAL video, VC7020, price £15.]

2002 September 30
Narrator of The Private Lives of Pompeii, a 90 min Channel 4 documentary.

2002 September 8 to 22
Amy Reardon in New Grub Street, a 3 x 60 min BBC Radio 4 drama, dramatised by Tony Ramsay from the 1891 novel by George Gissing, directed by Janet Whitaker, with Jonathan Firth as Edwin Reardon & Jonathan Cake as Jasper Milvain.

2002 August
Swinging Girl in Hideous Man, a 26 min short film, written, directed & narrated by John Malkovich, possibly based on something written by Gary Sinise, with Saffron Burrows.

This has been shown at the London Film Festival, and possibly elsewhere, but the intentions for its broadcast are unknown.

2002 June 13
One of the panel of judges at the 11th annual Graduate Fashion Awards.

2002 June 6
One of the readers in Cover Stories: Pride and Prejudice, a 30-min Radio 4 documentary on the lasting popularity of Jane Austen's novel.

2002 June 4 & 11
Voices of the young Queen Victoria and Kate Bartram in A History of Britain by Simon Schama programs 13: Victoria and her Sisters and 14: The Empire of Good Intentions, respectively.

[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD set Simon Schama, A History of Britain – the Complete Series, BBC DVD 1127, price £60; and on PAL video Simon Schama, A History of Britain, vol 5 and Simon Schama, A History of Britain, vol 6, respectively, included in Simon Schama, A History of Britain – Part Two triple box set, BBCV 7208, price £30 and in Simon Schama, A History of Britain – The Complete Series six-tape box set, BBCV 366, price £50;.]

2002 May 24 to June 4
Reader of Madame Bovary, an abridgement in paired 16 x 15 min installments on the OneWord digital radio channel, of the 1857 novel by Gustave Flaubert.

2002 May
Co-narrator, with Kerry Shale, of Sea Glass, the 2002 novel by Anita Shreve, on a talking-book cassette set.

[UK: Available on Orion Audio Books, ISBN 0952852671, price £15.]

2002 May 13 to 24
Reader of Girl from the South, an abridgement by Jill Waters in 10 x 15 min installments on BBC Radio 4, of the 2002 novel by Joanna Trollope.

2002 April 7 & 14
One of the readers on the first two programs in a series of BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please.

In Program 1 she read How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an extract from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, an extract from Sermon at Rajahgahar by the Buddha, My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Philip Sidney & The Life That I Have by Leo Marks. 

In Program 2 she read The Gate of the Year by Minnie Louise Haskins, Dirge without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay, I Met at Eve by Walter De La Mare & If I Should Go by Joyce Grenfell.

2002 March
Narrator of Witch Child, the 2000 children's novel by Celia Rees, on a talking-book four-cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on Bloomsbury Audio Books, ISBN 0747559899, price £15.]

2002 February 17 & 24
Clelia Conti in The Charterhouse of Parma, a 2 x 60 min BBC Radio 4 drama, written by Felicity Hayes-McCoy from the 1839 novel by Stendahl (Henri Beyle), directed by Lawrence Jackson, with Andrew Scott as Fabrice.

2002 February
Narrator of Girl from the South, the 2002 novel by Joanna Trollope, on talking-book cassette or CD set.

[UK: Available on CD set, ISBN 0747560153, price £13; and on double cassette, ISBN 074755952X, price £9.]

2002 February 4
Theodora Darrell in Agatha Christie's Magnolia Blossom, a 30 min BBC Radio 4 drama, written by Mike Walker from the short story by Agatha Christie, directed by Ned Chaillet, with Julian Rhind-Tutt as Vincent East & Alex Jennings as Richard Darrell.

2002 February 4 to 8
Reading Black Earth City as the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, an abridgement by Penny Leicester of the 2001 travel book by Charlotte Hobson, in 5 x 15 min installments: "Arrival"; "The Triangle Player"; "Russian Lessons"; "New Year", "New Happiness"; "Leaving".

2002 January
Cordelia in King Lear, the 1606 play by William Shakespeare, with Paul Scofield as King Lear.

This is a different recording from the one made for broadcast and sale by the BBC only a couple of months earlier.

[Available in the UK on Naxos AudioBooks: triple CD set, ISBN 9626347447, price £14, and cassette set, ISBN 9626347449, price £10.]

2001 October 1 to 5
Narrator of The Montana Stories, a series of 4 x 15 min short stories by Katherine Mansfield, on BBC Radio 4: Marriage à la Mode, The Doll's House, A Cup of Tea & Honeymoon.

[Emilia Fox as Jeannie Hurst in 'Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)' (1.5)]
2001 September 29 to November 24
Series 2 of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), with seven episodes, directed by Metin Hüseyin, Steve Bendelack & Charlie Higson:
  1. Whatever Possessed You? with guest stars Hywel Bennett, Mona Hammond & John Thomson. 
  2. Revenge Of The Bog People with guest stars Mark Williams, Celia Imrie, Matt Lucas & Freddie Jones. 
  3. O Happy Isle with guest stars George Baker, Rupert Vansittart, John Sessions & Glynis Brooks. 
  4. Marshall & Snellgrove with guest stars Colin McFarlane, Shaun Parkes & John Dougall. 
  5. Pain Killers with guest stars Derek Jacobi & Dervla Kirwan. 
  6. The Glorious Butranekh with guest stars Pauline Quirke, Brana Bajic & Anna Korwin. 
  7. Two Can Play At That Game with guest stars John Michie, Reece Shearsmith, Eleanor Bron & Roy Hudd. 

There are some great screen shots from the first two episodes at Rob van Houten's site here.

[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, Vision Video 9031309, £20; and on double PAL video, Vision Video 9074473, price £16;.]

2001 September 23
Hero in Much Ado about Nothing, a 145 min BBC Radio 3 drama of the 1598 play by William Shakespeare, directed by Sally Avens, with David Swift as Leonato, Samantha Spiro as Beatrice & Maxine Peake as Margaret.

2001 September 22
Cecilia Cumber in Queen Gertrude PLC, a 60 min BBC Radio 4 drama, written by Fay Weldon, directed by Pam Fraser Solomon, with Vanessa Redgrave as Gertrude Hazlett & Oliver Ford Davies as Mr Cumber.

2001 July
Narrator of I Capture the Castle, the 1948 novel by Dodie Smith, on a talking-book four-cassette-tape or four-CD set.

There's a webpage about it here at the site of the N American publishers, where you can hear a 3 min excerpt.  She won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Adult Fiction (USA) for this reading.

[UK: Available on CSA Telltapes, ISBN 1901768678, price £14 for the tape version, or Chivers Audio Books, ISBN 0754054101 (?), price £16 for the CD version.
N America: Available on Audio Editions, ISBN 1572702249, price US$25 for the tape version, or ISBN 1572702257, price US$30 for the CD version.]

2001 ?
Unknown rôle in The Magic Of Vincent, a 14-min short film, directed by Charles Palmer, with Miranda Richardson & Bill Nighy. 

There's a webpage about it here.

2001 May 8
Narrator of Killing the Shadows, a 3 hr abridged version of the 2000 novel by Val McDermid, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on HarperCollins Audio Books, ISBN 0007113560, price £9.]

2001 January to February
The main voiceover artist for one of the Robinson's Barley Water series of radio commercials: 370KB MP3 file.

2001 January
Narrator of Grasshopper, an unabridged version of the novel by Barbara Vine, on a talking-book 12-cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on Chivers Audio Books, ISBN 0754006018 (also 0754054101?), price £60-80!]

[Emilia Fox as Dale Carver in 'Other People's Children']
2000 September 10 to October 1
Dale Carver in Other People's Children, a 4 x 60 min BBC1 drama adapted by Leigh Jackson from the 1998 novel by Joanna Trollope, directed by Pete Travis, with Denis Lawson (again) as Tom Carver & Serena Gordon as Elizabeth Brown.

Here are three quick screen shots from the first trailer: looking relaxed, looking consternated & kissing Lawson, but much better are the large collections of screen stills that Rob van Houten has put up, from Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4.

[Not available on video.]

2000 September
Narrator of Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality, the 1998 science book by Jared Diamond, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set.

Notices included:
[UK: Available on Orion Audio, ISBN 0752839837, price £10.]

2000 June 1 to October 29
Virgilia in Coriolanus, the 1608 play by William Shakespeare, at the Almeida Theatre's Gainsborough Studios, London, directed by Jonathan Kent, with Ralph Fiennes as Coriolanus.

It transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York running from September 6 to October 1, and then to the Akasaka Theatre, Tokyo running from October 11 to 29.

Notices included:
2000
Unknown rôle in The Magic Of Vincent, a 14-min short film, directed by Charles Palmer, with Miranda Richardson & Bill Nighy.

Premiered at the 2000 Highgate Film Festival.  There's a webpage about it here.

2000 May
Narrator of Honeymoon, a 3 hr abridged version of the 2000 novel by Amy Jenkins, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set.

Notices included:
[UK: Available on Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books, ISBN 1840321830, price £9.]

2000 May 2
Molly Bloxham in Barnes and Molly, a 45 min drama from Jarvis & Ayres for BBC Radio 4, written by Ray Brown, directed by Pete Atkin, with Samuel West as Barnes Wallis.

Another “young English rose” voice rôle, the highlight of which is this Grey Chinchilla Stole moment, reading part of a letter: “Barnes, I am not going to answer your letter; not now at any rate. I can't thank you for it in ordinary words, because they seem so poor and inadequate. But all the time I am thanking and thanking you inside me. You've made me feel so proud and honoured, it makes me most awfully humble.”

2000 March 30 to October 29
Queen Isabel in Richard II, the 1595 play by William Shakespeare, at the Almeida Theatre's Gainsborough Studios, London, directed by Jonathan Kent, with Ralph Fiennes as Richard II.

It transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York running from September 6 to October 1, and then to the Akasaka Theatre, Tokyo running from October 11 to 29.

There's an image of her in this production illustrating the review below.

Notices included:
2000 March 18 to April 22
Jeannie Hurst in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), a resurrection in 6 50 min episodes of the 1969/70 TV series, from Working Title TV for BBC1 (costing £5.5m), written by Charlie Higson, directed by Mark Mylod (1, 3 & 6), Rachel Talalay (2 & 5) & Higson (4), with Bob Mortimer as Jeff Randall & Vic Reeves as Marty Hopkirk (deceased). 

Higson said of the casting process: “Some actresses could handle the action but weren't as strong on the emotional stuff and the drama.  Some were sexy but not dynamic enough, and some were great actors but didn't have the kind of signature-look we were after.  But in Emilia Fox we got the whole package.”  [What more can be said?]

Her rôle in this series is a very active one: she gets to beat up a number of people (shades of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!), for which she did some martial arts training.  This is a significant change from the demure characters in period dramas that she often plays. There are various R&H(D) fansites around, which you can find through the webring: those that have more images of Emilia Fox as Jeannie Hurst include Spooksterville, Talking To A Dead Man which has video clips as well, and the Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) club at Yahoo.  [Emilia Fox as Jeannie Hurst in 'Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)' (1.1)]

There's a (well, OK, my) full episode guide here at epguides.com, but this is the Emilia Fox Watcher's Episode Guide:
  1. Drop Dead, with Charles Dance (yet again!) as Kenneth Crisby.  Crying on cue, for take after take, is supposed to be one of the hardest things about acting: she manages to produce streams of tears in the scene comforting Randall after the funeral.  The highlight of the whole series is the restaurant scene with Hopkirk, where she goes through a wide variety of facial expressions, including an amazing sequence of three in three seconds, each matching the lines being said: aghast as she is caught slacking, ingratiating as she tries to explain it away, and pride/pleasure as she introduces her fiancé.
  2. Mental Apparition Disorder, with Hugh Laurie as Dr Lawyer.  There's a lovely understated little double-take at Dr Lawyer as he orders at the casino bar.
  3. The Best Years of Your Death, with Peter Bowles as Capt Graves.  There's a wonderful “knitted brows” expression of puzzlement when she reads the note passed to her by her nephew, and she does a great series of expressions later, when she sees the double bed – Bob Mortimer's expressions are almost as good.
  4. Paranoia, with Alexis Denisof as Richard Smalley.  When in the audience at the end, there's another, perfect double-take at Randall.
  5. A Blast from the Past, with Mark Benton as Harry Wallis.  This contains the biggest of her fight scenes, with Wallis.
  6. A Man of Substance, with Gareth Thomas as Dickie Bechard.  This episode contains the fewest scenes with her.

Notices included:
[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, Vision Video 0786062, £20 (347min, inc On Set with Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) & out-takes); and double PAL video, Vision Video 0740683, price £18 (280min).]

2000 March
Narrator of Killing Me Softly, a 3 hr abridged version of the 1999 novel by Nicci French, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on Penguin Audiobooks, ISBN 0141801298, price £9.]

[Emilia Fox as Nicki in 'Blink']
2000 March 13
Nicki in Blink, a 10 min short film drama from Aimimage Productions for Channel 4, written & directed by Amy Jenkins, with James Purefoy (again) as John.

An excellent little film, with an amazing bit of acting in the final scene, where she simultaneously laughs and cries with relief.

The Fox Club's Blink Review Page has much more on this production, including screen shots and sound clips.

[Available for free private viewing over the Internet: go to this page on the FilmFour website, click on the resolution of your choice, signing-up if necessary - then wish you had ADSL !]

2000 February 13 & 20
Sidney Bidulph in Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, a 2 x 60 min BBC Radio 4 drama, adapted by Louise Page from the 1761 novel by Frances Sheridan, directed by Marion Nancarrow, with Joanna David as Lady Bidulph.

The first part gives opportunities for a variety of voice work: her ‘croaky’ ill voice, and a couple of distraught scenes; the second part has another outing for the ‘croaky’ ill voice.

Notices included:
2000 January
Susie Morgan, one of four actors/narrators of Come Again, a 3 hr abridged version of the 1999 novel by Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set, with Kelly Reilly, Jason Durr & Ben Miller.

[UK: Available on Random House Audiobooks, ISBN 1856866025, price £9.]

[Emilia Fox as Pippa in 'The Rat Trap']
1999 / 2000 ?
Pippa, a modern-day Pied Piper character, in The Rat Trap, a 10-min short film from Rubyred Films (costing £22k), written by Bridget Holding & Thomas Viner, directed by Bridget Holding, with Mark Little.

This has had showings at the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, and in London, but has not been broadcast on TV.  There's a bit about the music for it on Lime Music's website here, where you can listen to a hi-fi sound clip.

[Available for free private viewing over the Internet: go to Atom Films, click on Search, enter The Rat Trap, click on the returned link, select your connection speed, click on Play Entire Film, signup, and click on Play - then wish you had ADSL!]


[Emilia Fox as Clara Copperfield in 'David Copperfield']
1999 December 25 & 26
Clara Copperfield in David Copperfield, a 2 x 90 min BBC1 drama (costing £4m), adapted by Adrian Hodges from the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens, directed by Simon Curtis, with Pauline Quirke as Clara Peggotty & Daniel Radcliffe as the young David Copperfield.

[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, BBC DVD 1075, price £20; and PAL video, BBCV 6950, price £14.
N America: Available on double NTSC video, ASIN:0764009842, price US$30.]

1999 December 13 to 31
Harriet in Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, a 15 x 15 min BBC Radio 4 drama, adapted by Jennifer Curry from the 1998 biography by Amanda Foreman, directed by Cherry Cookson & Janet Whitaker, with Juliet Aubrey as Georgiana.

The early episodes have good impressions of a young teenage sister (“He keeps looking at you in a funny way... [Giggle] It's true.”), which, like The Round Tower, she matures as the character ages, though this time having to rely on voice alone.

1999 November
A BT advert contained an almost subliminally short clip from The Scarlet Pimpernel of her first scene changing costumes backstage at the theater, while Armand says “Please.”

1999 October
Co-narrator, with Hugh Laurie, of Inconceivable, a 3 hr abridged version of the 1999 novel by Ben Elton, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set.

There's an MP3 file of her reading an extract here.  Hugh Laurie got the same part in the film of this book, called Maybe Baby, so why didn't Ms Fox?

[UK: Available on HarperCollins Audio Books, ISBN 0001055879, price £9.]

1999 June 19
Eva in Don't Be a Stranger, a 60 min drama from Forge Productions for BBC Radio 4, written by Carolyn Sally Jones, directed by Ralph Rolls, with Peter Egan as Dave Trimby.

What do you do when a pretty, petite, young blonde turns up on your doorstep (“Can I come in?”), claiming to be your daughter?  (“I shouldn't have come. She said I shouldn't. I wanted to see you. I wanted... Oh God, I'm sorry!”).  Invite her into your life, of course... and then regret it, as things turn sour (“You didn't have to believe me. I said I didn't want anything from you. You begged me to stay”) and then bitter (“She thought she'd see you the next summer, only you never showed. You didn't even bother to write. Pathetic!”).

1999 June
Narrator of Mr Maybe, a 3 hr abridged version of the 1999 novel by Jane Green, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set.

[UK: Available on Penguin Audiobooks, ISBN 0141800380, price £9.]

1999 June 9
Lady Isabel in Devonia, episode 2: Day Trip, a 45 min BBC Radio 4 drama, written by Andy Rashleigh, directed by Cherry Cookson, with John Duttine as Harry.

Playing one of a party of young aristocrats (“But he's only a steward!”), and excelling at that most difficult of scenes, playing charades on radio (“First syllable goes like this...”), she gets several good scenes with a variety of emotions to portray: awe (“For valour... it's the Victoria Cross!”), anger (“How dare you!” [Slap]), and angst (“What made him do that?  What did I do to provoke him?  They'd never let me marry him now, even if I begged them!”).

1999 April 18 to May 2
Jackie Shipton, a nurse, in Bad Blood, a 3 x 60 min ITV drama written by Tony Marchant, directed by Tim Fywell, with Alex Jennings as Joe Harker.

Although it's only a supporting rôle, she does get to do the most dramatic set of scenes, the break up with Harker (“You're leaving me for dead. You know that, don't you. Oh, please Joe, don't do this to me. I'm sorry, please, Joe. [Slam]”), followed by the memorable final farewell (“Something to remember me by...!”).  Rob van Houten has made a set of screen shots available here.

[Not available on video.]

1999 March 18 to May 22
Anne, a literary student, in a revival of Good, the 1981/82 play written by C P Taylor, at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, directed by Michael Grandage, with Charles Dance (again) as Prof Halder.

Emilia Fox talks about the play and her rôle here, and Charles Dance about his here.  There are images of the outside and inside of the promotional flyer for this production.

Notices included:
[One of the last performances was videotaped, and this 2 hr recording is held in the National Video Archive of Stage Performance at the Theatre Museum, London, where it can be screened “for groups and researchers”.]

1999 March
Narrator of River Boy (unabridged), the 1997 novel for teenagers that won the 1998 Carnegie Medal, by Tim Bowler, on a talking-book triple-cassette-tape set.

Grey Chinchilla Stole moment: “Indeed, he looked as though he had just dived in from the other bank, and swum up behind her, full of energy; and there was an elation in his eyes, a sense of joy.”

[UK: Available on Chivers Children's Audio Books, ISBN 0754062147, price about £20; and Chivers Cavalcade Story Cassettes, ISBN 0754070840, price £10.
N America: available on Chivers Audio Books, ISBN 075405098X, price about US$30.]

1999 January 24
Minette Roland, an actress, in The Scarlet Pimpernel (Episode 1), a 90 min BBC1 drama, adapted by Richard Carpenter from the 1905 novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, directed by Patrick Lau, with Richard E Grant as Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and Martin Shaw as Paul Chauvelin.

Although this was the first of a series of Scarlet Pimpernel films, her character is not in the subsequent episodes.  There are three stills of Emilia Fox from this production on this page of the Actresses in Character site.  There's a website detailing the production here.

Another supporting rôle, one in which she seems to have really enjoyed herself, particularly in the first on-stage scene (“Away with all doubts and fears, come to me my love, the trees will shelter us from prying eyes, and I shall give you my heart!”), and the trial scene, where she announces her name (“Minette Roland!”) and chants “Death! Death! Death!”.  The wig looks terrific, but, oh, that yellow hat!

[UK: Available on PAL video, Carlton 30370 50663, price £13.
N America: Available on NTSC video, ASIN:0767015576, price US$20.]


[Emilia Fox as Spig in 'Shooting the Past']
[There is a larger version of
this still, and four others,
in Gidi Kroom's gallery.]
1999 January 19
Spig in Shooting the Past: Spig's Story, a 7 min monologue companion program to the BBC2 drama, written & directed by Stephen Poliakoff.

An absolute treat!  An enigmatic, thought-provoking piece, beautifully delivered.

[Available on the UK DVD & video of Shooting the Past (see below), but it's not on the N American release.]

1999 January 10 to 24
Spig, a kohl-eyed dope-smoking library assistant, in Shooting the Past, a 3 x 60 min drama from TalkBack Productions for BBC2 that won the 1999 Prix Italia, written & directed by Stephen Poliakoff, with Lindsay Duncan as Marilyn Truman and Timothy Spall as Oswald Bates.

Not a large part, nor perhaps a very demanding one – most memorable for the series of enigmatic smiles (see example right); and especially for the highlight of the delightful job interview scene, which provides another Grey Chinchilla Stole moment (“It's amazing... how when you're stoned, these pictures come back to life – what patterns form in the night. You've no idea what it's like at night. Oh, I mean I know it's dark now, but I'm talking very late, and when you're really, really stoned: what you suddenly see then. Oh, it's better than the movies. It's better than telly. It's fantastic.”).

[UK: Available on Region 2 & 4 PAL DVD, BBCDVD 1327, price £16; and on PAL video, BBCV 6846, price £16 (both also contain Spig's Story, which justifies the cost on its own).
N America: Available on double NTSC video, ASIN:B00003TKF5, price US$30 (but doesn't contain Spig's Story though).]

1998 September 9 to October 10
Katherine Howard in Katherine Howard, the premiere staging of the play by William Nicholson, at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Robin Lefevre, with Richard Griffiths as Henry VIII and Julian Rhind-Tutt as Thomas Culpeper.

Notices included:
1998 August 14
Charlie Moyes in Verdict, episode 3: The Doctor's Opinion, a 60 min Yorkshire Television drama, written by Susan Rogers, directed by Bill Pryde, with Sue Johnston as Hazel de Vere, QC.

[Not available on video.]

1998 June
Narrator of Agnes Grey (unabridged), the 1847 novel by Anne Brontë, on a talking-book six-cassette-tape set.

Grey Chinchilla Stole moment: “...I shall never forget that glorious Summer evening, and always remember with delight that steep, rugged hill, and the edge of the precipice where we stood together watching the splendid sun-set mirrored on the restless world of waters at our feet – with hearts filled with gratitude to Heaven, and happiness, and love – almost too full for speech.”

[UK & N America: Available on Chivers Library Edition / Sterling Audio Books, ISBN 0754001652, price £35 or US$55.]

1998 May 24 to June 7
Effi Briest in Effi Briest, a 3 x 60 min BBC Radio 4 drama, adapted from the 1895 novel by Theodor Fontane, directed by Michael Fox (no relation?), with David Threlfall as Innstetten and Brigit Forsyth as Frau Briest.

Notices included:
1998 March 7
Marie-Jo Simenon, the daughter of writer Georges Simenon, in Murder in Paris, a 90 min BBC Radio 4 drama, written by Howard Ginsberg, directed by Andy Jordan, with Alan Bates as Georges Simenon.

[For a listening copy of this tape, which is not available commercially, e-mail the Alan Bates Archive.]

[Emilia Fox as Vanessa Ratcliffe (& Ben Miles as Angus Cotton) in 'The Round Tower']
with Ben Miles as Angus Cotton
1998 January 9 to 23
Vanessa Ratcliffe in The Round Tower, a 3 x 60 min drama from Festival Film & Television Ltd for Tyne Tees, adapted by T R Bowen from the 1968 novel by Catherine Cookson, which won the 1968 Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, directed by Alan Grint, with Ben Miles as Angus Cotton, Denis Lawson as Arthur Brett, Keith Barron as Jonathan Ratcliffe and Jan Harvey as Jane Ratcliffe.

The verse quoted at the end, from which the title is derived, comes from the poem The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

If I had to recommend getting just one video, it would be this.  A wonderful performance; she does a fantastic job of evolving the character from a naïve teenager through to a more worldly-wise young adult (“I'll go and sit in the summer-house and muse.” => “He'll make much more out of you when you own a fleet of lorries.” => “I hear you're buying me a house.”).  There are so many highlights along the way that I could mention: her look of defiance when Mr Ratcliffe says “Get that look of defiance off your face”, and her face lighting up with a smile of delight at seeing Mr Brett at the shops (which helps make later events more plausible), being just two, early on in the film.  But the best piece of acting is in the scene in the car leaving the funeral – although she has no lines here, she still manages to convey the awkwardness and fear that must be going through the character's mind, in her eye movements of embarrassedly not knowing where to look.

Notices included:
[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, Granada Cinema Club CCD9646, price £10; and on Granada PAL video GV0017 or TTE1020, price £12, also as one of the Britannia collection of Catherine Cookson videos, but possibly in a shortened version.
N America: available on double NTSC video, ASIN:077335171X, price US$30.]

1997 December 28
Karoline von Esterhazy in The Double Life of Franz Schubert, a 60 min drama from Oxford Films for Channel 4, written by Nicolas Kent, directed by Peter Webber, with Simon Russell Beale as Franz Schubert.

[Not available on video.]

1997 October 11 & 12
[Emilia Fox as Ann Devenish in 'Bright Hair']
those “bushbaby eyes”
belie the other 1%
Ann Devenish, a disturbed & rebellious teenager, in Bright Hair (German title: Der Mörder von Jenners Wood), a 2 x 60 min drama from Monogram Productions for BBC1, adapted by Peter Ransley from his 1991 novel Bright Hair About the Bone, directed by Christopher Menaul, with James Purefoy as David Miles, Oliver Milburn as Lawrence Churchman, Jim Carter as Norman Devenish & Patricia Kerrigan as Eileen Devenish.

Notices included:
[Not available on video.]

c1997
Jessica Masters in After Murder Park, a 144 min thriller film, written & directed by Andrew Birkin, with Benny Pest as Julian Hawthorne & her real-life father, Edward Fox, as her character's father, Det Insp Iain Masters.

I can find almost no references to this film, apart from a now removed Internet Movie Database entry, which included her in the cast – but she refers to The Pianist as her first film, the PFD site doesn't list it, and a correspondent believes she wasn't in it at all either.  Was this ever released, or even made, and why did IMDb think she was in it?

1997 May 29
Performer in An Evening of Words and Music, a charity event held at the Imperial War Museum, London in aid of the charity Hope and Homes for Children, organised by her father, Edward Fox.

1997 March
Narrator of Rebecca, a 3 hr abridged version of the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, on a talking-book double-cassette-tape set.

Also, Joanna David has done a longer (6 hr; four cassette) abridged version of this book [Penguin Audiobooks, PEN 392, price £10], if you want to do a ‘compare and contrast’.

What other clip can there be but “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...”.

[UK: Available on Hodder Headline Audiobooks for W H Smith, WHS 22, ISBN 1859986447, price £8; also included in The Daphne Du Maurier Collection on Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books, ISBN 1859989640, price £22.]

[Emilia Fox as the second Mrs de Winter in 'Rebecca']
1997 January 4 & 5
The second Mrs de Winter, in Rebecca, a 2 x 120 min drama from Portman Production for Carlton UK Television (costing £4m), adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, directed by Jim O'Brien, with Charles Dance as Maxim de Winter, Diana Rigg as Mrs Danvers and Faye Dunaway as Mrs Van Hopper.

Notices included:
[UK: Available on Region 2 PAL DVD, £13, and double PAL video, Carlton 30074 00893, price £22.
N America: Available on double NTSC video, ASIN:6304490585, price US$30 (but possibly in a somewhat edited-down version).]

1996 October to 1997 March
Anya Ranyevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, the 1904 play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Peter Gill, directed by Anthony Noble, with Alec McCowan as Leonid Gaev & Penelope Wilton as Mme Lubov Ranyevskaya.  Staged by the RSC London, at the Albery Theatre, preceded by a couple of weeks in Stratford-upon-Avon, and followed by a nationwide tour.

There's a page detailing the production here, and a review here.

[Emilia Fox as Georgiana Darcy in 'Pride and Prejudice']
1995 September 24 to October 29
Georgiana Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, a 6 x 60 min BBC1 drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from the 1813 novel by Jane Austen, directed by Simon Langton, with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy.

Made during her second long vacation at college, this production also features her mother, Joanna David, as Mrs Gardiner.

[UK: Available on double Region 2 PAL DVD, BBC DVD 1023, price £30; and on double PAL video, BBCV 5702, price £22;.
N America: Available on double Region 1 NTSC DVD, ASIN:6305078564, price US$60, and also BCAAE 70254, price US$40; and on double NTSC video, ASIN:6304082428, price US$60, or set of six NTSC videos, ASIN:6303921248, price US$60.]

circa 1987
Princess Alice in Treasure Houses, episode Queen Victoria's Holiday Home, a 30 min BBC1 production, written by Dorothy Smith, with her real-life mother, Joanna David, as her character's mother, Queen Victoria.

[Not available on video.]

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