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Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964) is an American film and television actress. This bright-eyed and beautiful young African-American performer was discovered in the manner of Hollywood legends of old. Fox was working as a waitress in a Sunset Boulevard eatery when she caught the eye of producer Trevor Walton who liked her looks and had a deal at Paramount. He auditioned her for one of his films and introduced her to the woman who became her agent. Fox, an African-American, was born in South Bend, Indiana, the daughter of Everlyena, a pharmaceutical technician, and William Fox, a private school administrator. She is a graduate of Arlington High School in Indianapolis, Indiana and Golden West College with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences. Fox made her screen debut with a bit part as a hooker in Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989). TV work soon followed on daytime soaps, the short-lived black-oriented "Generations" on NBC and "The Young and the Restless" on CBS, and primetime guest spots beginning with a turn on the popular Will Smith vehicle "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". On the latter, Fox played a beautiful but venomous "date from Hell" whom Will tries to fix up with his cousin. This led to a brief stint as a regular on the sitcom "Out All Night" (NBC, 1992-93) on which she played the fashion stylist daughter of nightclub owner Patti LaBelle. Fox moved to California to attend Golden West College. While in California she started acting professionally, first on soap operas such as Generations, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless. She was cast as Emily Franklin in the pilot episode of ABC's Living Dolls a sitcom and spinoff of Who's the Boss? but was replaced with Halle Berry for the remaining episodes. In another early role saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series Out All Night. After bit parts in several comedy features, Fox gained notice in the unlikely but winning role of a fiercely devoted single mother who supports her child and herself by working as a stripper in the sci-fi blockbuster "Independence Day" (1996). She was well paired with the dashing Will Smith as her flyboy beau. This high-profile exposure opened the floodgates and work poured in. Feature leads followed in the black feminist-inflected actioner "Set It Off" (1996), as part of a quartet of femme bank robbers; the safe sex comedy "Booty Call" (1997) and a supporting role as Ms. B Haven, a moll of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze, in the highly touted sequel "Batman & Robin" (1997). Fox also landed the female lead in Arsenio Hall's sitcom comeback, "Arsenio" (ABC, 1997), which failed to attract viewers and was cancelled after a few airings. She faced a similar fate with her follow-up TV vehicle the Fox sitcom "Getting Personal" (1998). Although it debuted as a midseason replacement and managed to earn a fall renewal, the sitcom's poor showing in the ratings forced its cancellation in October after only a handful of episodes had aired. She also appeared as Jazz's sister on the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She got her big break in film in the 1996 movies "Independence Day" and Set It Off. From there, she was cast in many other films and earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of Maxine in the 1997 motion picture Soul Food, which netted her MTV Movie Award and NAACP Image Award nominations. Fox returned back to the big screen and was immediately cast alongside Halle Berry and Lela Rochon in "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" (1998), a feature film about the life and death of Frankie Lymon. She continued her work on the big screen and on television before picking up another television project. "City Of Angels" (2000), a television series that co-starred Fox as Dr. Lillian Price. In 2000, she portrayed Dr. Lillian Price during the first season of the CBS medical drama City of Angels. In 2001, Fox was cast in "Little Secrets" and the following year she portrayed a WNBA star in the cross-dressing comedy "Juwanna Mann" (2002). After a role opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr., in the dismal comedy "Boat Trip" (2002), Fox was cast in one of best and most visible roles to date, playing the hard-hitting Vernita Green, one of the cadre of assassins marked for retribution by The Bride (Uma Thurman) in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" (2003). 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. After a cameo appearance as herself in “Hair Show” (2004), an independently made beauty shop comedy trying to capitalize on the success of “Barbershop” (2002), Fox played the Fairy Lucinda who gives a young girl (Anne Hathaway) the gift and eventual curse of obedience at birth. She was next seen in two straight to video releases, “Getting Played” (2006), a romantic comedy about three women tired of men who try to ensnare a random target for fun, and “The Hard Corps” (2006), an action flick about a combat vet hired to protect a former boxing champion from an unscrupulous rap mogul. Meanwhile, Fox joined ten other celebrities as a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars” (ABC, 2005- ), a weekly competition that paired professional dancers with inexperienced celebrities, some of whom have two left feet. From 2004 to 2006 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. In September 2007, she appeared 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. In December 1998, Fox 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. On March 20, 2007, Fox 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. |
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