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. : . Vivica Fox Biography
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Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964 in
South Bend, IN) is a film and television
actress.
Personal
Fox is a graduate of Arlington High
School in Indianapolis, Indiana and Golden
West College with an Associate Art degree in
Social Sciences. In December 1998, she
married singer Christopher Harvest (aka Sixx-Nine)
whom she later divorced in June 2002.
Fox's relationship with the rapper 50 Cent
earned her playful nods from Missy Elliott
in her song "I'm Really Hot", The Game in
"Dreams", and from 50 Cent himself in "Get
In My Car". She was also mentioned in Game's
diss song 300 Bars and Runnin' which dissed
50 Cent.
Acting career
After graduating from Golden West
College, Fox moved to California to become
an actress, first on soap operas such as
Generations, Days of Our Lives and The Young
and the Restless. One of her earliest roles
saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer
daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC
TV series Out All Night. She also appeared
as Jazz's sister on the hit show The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air. She got her big break in
film as Will Smith's stripper girlfriend in
Independence Day. From there, she was cast
in many other films and earned critical
acclaim for her role in the 1997 movie Soul
Food, which netted her MTV Movie Award and
NAACP Image Award nominations. In 2000, she
portrayed Dr. Lillian Price during the first
season of the CBS medical drama City of
Angels.
Fox also played roles in Idle Hands, Why Do
Fools Fall In Love, Teaching Mrs. Tingle,
Two Can Play That Game and Juwanna Mann
before landing the role of assassin Vernita
Green in the 2003 Quentin Tarantino vehicle,
Kill Bill. Fox has also tried her hand at
voice acting, providing her voice for roles
in the television cartoons Ozzy & Drix and
Kim Possible.
In 2004, Fox was in an episode of Punk'd
where her pregnant friend Tichina Arnold
pretended to go into labor, but they became
angry when a paramedic appeared to care more
about taking pictures than delivering the
baby.
From 04-06 Fox starred in the drama series,
Missing on the Lifetime Television Network
with Caterina Scorsone and Mark Consuelos.
She was also the show's co-producer.
Fox participated in the third season of
ABC's hit television show, Dancing with the
Stars, she was voted off after the fourth
week.
On March 20, 2007 Vivica was arrested for
DUI. At 10:57 PM on the 101 Freeway in the
San Fernando Valley, Vivica reportedly
passed a marked police car while going 80
mph. She was taken to Van Nuys jail where
she submitted to two breathalyzer tests
which were over the 0.08 legal limit
according to California Highway Patrol (CHP)
spokesman Leland Tang.
Vivica is set to star in an upcoming movie
about the rise and fall and rise of Grammy
Award-Winning pop music superstar Whitney
Houston[citation needed]. In September 2007
Fox starred in the sixth season of HBO’s
Curb Your Enthusiasm as a mother of a family
displaced by a hurricane and taken in by
Larry and Cheryl.Filmography
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While
Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Set It Off (1996)
Booty Call (1997)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Soul Food (1997)
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
Idle Hands (1999)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Double Take (2001)
Kingdom Come (2001)
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Little Secrets (2001)
Juwanna Mann (2002)
Boat Trip (2002)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Ride or Die (2003)
Motives (2004)
Ella Enchanted (2004)
Blast! (2004)
Hair Show (2004)
The Salon (2005)
My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black
Hair-itage (2005) (documentary)
Getting Played (2005)
The Hard Corps (2006)
Natural Born Komics (2006) (direct-to-DVD)
Kicking It Old Skool (2007)
Citizen Duane (2006)
Caught On Tape (2006)
Motives 2: Retribution (2007)
Upcoming:
Marble City (2007)
Father of Lies (2007)
Upcoming Whitney Houston Biopic (2007/2008)
Three Can Play That Game (2008)
Major Movie Star (2008)
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