Robin Fox family
The Robin Fox family is a family with several members in the acting and related professions over a number of generations. Robin Fox (1913-1971), an actor and theatrical agent, and his wife Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, actress and daughter of the English playwright Frederick Lonsdale, had 3 sons, including the actors James and Edward Fox. Their other son, Robert Fox, became a theatrical agent. Their grandchildren include the actors Emilia Fox, Laurence Fox and Lydia Fox. Robin Fox is the grandson of Samson Fox (1838-1903), a British engineer, industrialist and philanthropist.
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[edit] Dynastic Roots
Robin Fox was himself related to the great acting dynasty: the Neilson / Hanbury Family via his mother the actress Hilda Hanbury and his aunt Lily Hanbury (his father was Arthur William Fox, the son of industrialist Samson Fox).[1] Hilda and Lily's first cousin Julia Neilson was married to the actor Fred Terry, brother of the late nineteenth century star Ellen Terry.[2] In total seven first cousins including Hilda and Lily Hanbury were all actors in the Victorian Theatre.[2]
[edit] Family
Robin Fox (1913-1971), theatrical agent, married Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, actress, 3 sons
- Edward Fox (born 1937), actor, married twice
- (i) Tracy Reed, (married 1958-61), actress, 1 child
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- Lucy Fox married twice
- (i) David Grenfell. 1 child
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- Harry Grenfell
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- (ii) Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston
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- (ii) Joanna David, actress, 2 children
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- Emilia Fox (born 1974), actress, was married to actor Jared Harris 2005–2009.
- Freddie Fox (born 1989)
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- James Fox (born 1939), actor, married Mary Elizabeth Piper in 1973, 5 children
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- Tom Fox (born 1975)
- Robin Fox (born 1976)
- Laurence Fox (born 1978), actor, married actress Billie Piper in 2007, 1 child
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- Winston Fox (born 2008)
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- Lydia Fox (born 1979}, actress, married Richard Ayoade in 2007
- Jack Fox (born 1985)
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- Robert Fox (born 1952), theatre and film producer, married 3 times
- (i) Celestia Sporborg (married 1975–90), casting director, 3 children
- (ii) Natasha Richardson (1990-94}, actress, no children
- (iii) Fiona Golfar (1996 to date), editor at Vogue magazine, 2 children
Robin Fox was rumoured to be the father of Daniel Chatto[3] (born 1957), who married Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, the daughter of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Daniel Chatto's mother, Rosalind Thompson, had been Robin Fox's secretary.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p47912.htm#i479118
- ^ a b "Emilia Fox". Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC One. 9:00PM Wed, 7 Sep 2011. No. 5, series 8.
- ^ Daniel Chatto biography at The Internet Movie Database
- ^ Nigel Dempster's Address Book: The Social Gazetteer, Pan Books, 1990, page 79
