Kerry Fox

Acting

Kerry Fox

Born

1966-07-30 (60)

Place of birth

Wellington, New Zealand

Known for

Acting

Credits

83 titles

Kerry Fox (born July 30, 1966) is a New Zealand actress. She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kerry Fox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 19 titles

The Dressmaker poster
7.0

In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.

The Dressmaker

2015

Top End Wedding poster
5.9

Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren’s mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.

Top End Wedding

2019

Little Joe poster
5.7

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

Little Joe

2019

Mayhem poster
6.4

A virus spreads through an office complex causing white collar workers to act out their worst impulses.

Mayhem

2017

Mr. Pip poster
6.2

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

Mr. Pip

2012

Mental poster
5.6

A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.

Mental

2012

Burning Man poster
6.0

Tom is a British chef in a Bondi restaurant who seems to have decided there are no longer any rules he needs to obey. Whatever Tom is up to, his actions seem to be tolerated by those around him. As Tom descends into darkness, fragments of a different story begin to emerge. All the women in his world are trying in their own, very different ways to help put him back together.

Burning Man

2011

Intruders poster
5.5

Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 12-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

Intruders

2011

Holding the Man poster
7.7

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.

Holding the Man

2015

Downriver poster
4.6

James has served time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found in the river. A visit from his victim's mother upon parole sends him on a quest to find the truth. With little time and danger at every turn, James risks his freedom and his life to uncover the trail of sins that might give closure to the grieving mother.

Downriver

2015

Trap for Cinderella poster
5.2

A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.

Trap for Cinderella

2013

Baghdad in My Shadow poster
6.0

A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, the poet Taufiq and the gay IT specialist Muhannad. They all want to finally feel free in London - something that was denied them in their homeland. But adversity threatens...

Baghdad in My Shadow

2019

War Book poster
5.1

Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.

War Book

2015

Harry Kiri poster
8.0

A suburban Jewish household in North London suffers a visit by an unexpected couple of young men dressed as Samurai. A stunned father and a serene mother discover that their daughter’s suitor, rejected by the Dad as an unsuitable boyfriend, is set on winning her back. Even if it entails ritual disembowelment…

Harry Kiri

2019

Brakes poster
5.7

Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups.

Brakes

2017

Medusa's Ankles poster
10.0

A classics professor finds herself enticed by a Matisse print and becomes enamored with its owner, hairdresser Lucian.

Medusa's Ankles

2018

The Rehearsal poster
5.2

First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.

The Rehearsal

2016

Morning Echo poster
6.0

The Moffatts are in trouble. Their sick young daughter Franny almost died in October, and, wanting to make her final days good ones, they held a fake Christmas for her. A couple of months later, as the Moffatt household wakes up on December 25th, Franny is still alive, and the rest of the family have fallen apart. Big sister Veronica has hidden the family cat in the cupboard, and spends her days searching the streets for a new family. Brother Neil has given up talking altogether, and barks like a dog at his parents who are arguing about health food. When Franny finally wakes up she announces, with a smile on her face, that today is Valentine's Day.

Morning Echo

2010

Patrick's Day poster
5.9

A young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal air hostess but his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

Patrick's Day

2014

2000s · 20 titles

Bright Star poster
6.6

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

Bright Star

2009

Intimacy poster
6.2

Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventually disrupts their relationship.

Intimacy

2001

The Gathering poster
5.6

Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her to convalesce at a large rural home, where she becomes friends with the woman's stepson, Michael. As Cassie delves into Michael's research about an old, newly discovered area church, it triggers some strange premonitions and offers gradual clues about her deeper links to this British community.

The Gathering

2003

Celebrity Naked Ambition poster
5.3

Documentary looking at how nudity has been used in the movies, sometimes shrewdly and other times without thought.

Celebrity Naked Ambition

2003

The Point Men poster
4.4

Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.

The Point Men

2001

Storm poster
6.1

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.

Storm

2009

The Ferryman poster
4.7

Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht.

The Ferryman

2007

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall poster
6.1

After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

2008

Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games poster
5.4

Bob the Builder and his gang travel to a winter resort and have to help build the venues for the Bobblesberg Winter Games, since the original crew assigned the tasked gets snowed under.

Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games

2004

The Murder Room poster
6.5

London's Dupayne Museum is in danger of closing since one of the trustees feels that the money expended on preserving the past could be better spent addressing the problems of living people. One of the museum's collections concerns murders committed between the world wars. When a killing that reflects one of the cases on display occurs, history seems to be repeating itself.

The Murder Room

2004

Inconceivable poster
5.8

A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Freeman (Colm Feore) is a doctor who runs an upscale fertility clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Freeman specializes in helping women who have had trouble getting pregnant conceive, usually through artificial insemination techniques or transplanting donated eggs into his patients. Over the course of several weeks, Freeman inseminates nine women from different walks of life, eight become pregnant and give birth to healthy children, but when the new mothers compare notes, they discover their children bear a striking resemblance to one another...

Inconceivable

2008

Rag Tale poster
3.3

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

Rag Tale

2005

The Darkest Light poster
5.0

Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leukaemia, and the doctors aren't making headway. Meanwhile, Catherine, ten, feels lonely and neglected; befriending Uma, the first Hindu at the village school, she takes her to the Moors. Something strange happens, which Catherine interprets as a vision of the Virgin Mary, and a sign her brother will be all right.

The Darkest Light

2000

Footprints in the Snow poster
4.0

Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her husband will leave her. Then doctors try a revolutionary treatment which feeds electrical impulses to her leg muscles - allowing her to ride a bicycle once again and so go out for bike rides with her family. Her marriage survives and she and her husband end up closer together than before.

Footprints in the Snow

2005

Intervention poster
5.5

An eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for twenty-eight days with one thing in common, addiction.

Intervention

2007

Black and White poster
6.2

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.

Black and White

2002

Nostradamus poster
1.0

The trials and horrific visions that made the most famous mystic of all time.

Nostradamus

2006

Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) poster
4.9

Jet lives a joyful life working at a factory with his girlfriend who he's deeply in love with. Shortly after they decide to get married and live together happily ever after her cat, who she has a weird affection for, dies. The girlfriend falls into depression which could (strangely enough) lead to her death and the only way to give her a purpose to live and save her is to tell her the meaning of life.

Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)

2004

The Making of 'An Angel at My Table' poster
NR

This documentary provides a glimpse into the making of Jane Campion's 1990 film.

The Making of 'An Angel at My Table'

2002

No artwork available
8.0

Maggie, a professional woman dutifully paying a visit to her overbearing mother in Sydney, encounters a 14-year-old Kosovan girl on the train. Strangely propelled by the girl's isolation, she embarks on a mission to reunite her with her mother in a refugee detention centre, but gradually discovers that it is in fact the young stranger who is showing her how to reconcile with her own mother.

So Close to Home

2003

1990s · 18 titles

Shallow Grave poster
7.0

When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.

Shallow Grave

1994

Welcome to Sarajevo poster
6.5

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.

Welcome to Sarajevo

1997

An Angel at My Table poster
7.0

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life.

An Angel at My Table

1990

Immortality poster
5.7

A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

Immortality

1998

Fanny & Elvis poster
6.4

Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.

Fanny & Elvis

1999

To Walk with Lions poster
5.8

Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatized the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence. When drifter Tony Fitzjohn arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions - and, ultimately, the park itself - from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.

To Walk with Lions

1999

The Sound of One Hand Clapping poster
3.6

Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

1998

No artwork available
9.0

Desperation for a child prompts a British executive's (Douglas Hodge) wife (Kerry Fox) to submit to an illegal adoption scheme in Vietnam

Saigon Baby

1995

A Village Affair poster
5.0

An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.

A Village Affair

1995

The Last Tattoo poster
5.6

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt from military service and living it up on black market profits. Girls under the control of the union - of whom the victim's fiancee, Rose, is one - give sexual favours to the Americans, in return for information. The marine assigned to investigate the murder, tries to find Rose through a public health nurse who traces VD infections. However they discover there it more going on than they realized, involving a conspiracy amongst the Union, the government and the U.S. military.

The Last Tattoo

1994

The Last Days of Chez Nous poster
5.8

The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992

The Affair poster
4.0

A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.

The Affair

1995

Country Life poster
6.1

Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.

Country Life

1994

The Rainbow Warrior poster
5.4

Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nation's government.

The Rainbow Warrior

1997

The Hanging Garden poster
6.3

William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.

The Hanging Garden

1997

Deja Vu poster
9.0

Psychological drama revolving around a couple caught in a living nightmare after the death of their young son in a car crash.

Deja Vu

1999

Friends poster
6.5

The beginning of the end of the apartheid era in South Africa is seen through the perspectives of three female friends: Sophie, who is of English descent; Aninka, who is an Afrikaner; and Thoko, who is black.

Friends

1994

Thinking About Sleep poster
8.0

Robert jumped. Or maybe he slipped. For his friends the truth is difficult to contemplate. A film about love.

Thinking About Sleep

1999

Series credits

Midsomer Murders poster
7.5

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

1997

Death in Paradise poster
7.4

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

Death in Paradise

2011

Silent Witness poster
7.6

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Silent Witness

1996

Vera poster
7.4

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Vera

2011

Waking the Dead poster
7.2

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Waking the Dead

2001

Screen Two poster
7.1

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Screen Two

1985

Tales from the Crypt poster
8.0

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Tales from the Crypt

1989

The Stolen Girl poster
6.3

Mother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect Lucia the next day, the house turns out to be an empty luxury rental and Lucia has been abducted.

The Stolen Girl

2025

The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself poster
7.3

Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world — and his powers.

The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself

2022

Wanted poster
7.2

Two complete strangers, Lola and Chelsea, intervene in a fatal carjacking while waiting at a suburban bus stop, and are subsequently thrust into a chase from authorities across Australia with a vehicle filled with cash. The strangers must rely solely on each other while on the run.

Wanted

2016

Bay of Fires poster
6.0

Stella is unexpectedly dropped into a small community with her children. It is the kind of place that's rife with simmering feuds, crime and sometimes, murder.

Bay of Fires

2023

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema poster
7.0

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest filmmakers -- all of them women.

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

2020

National Treasure poster
6.5

Paul Finchley is a bona fide "national treasure", one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act. The famous comedian's world is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse.

National Treasure

2016

Shockers poster
NR

An anthology series of horror stories by contemporary British screenwriters.

Shockers

1999

Sex & Violence poster
6.0

Follows the lives of a social worker, a victims' advocate and four others who provide support to victims of violence.

Sex & Violence

2013

The Crimson Field poster
7.5

In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.

The Crimson Field

2014

Glue poster
6.1

Overton is a small, countryside village where farming is its bread and butter and race horses are its beating heart. When the body of a local resident is found under a tractor, destructive forces are unleashed and the entire community is forced to watch their secrets exposed... chilling secrets that will change their particular way of life forever.

Glue

2014

Mr. Wroe's Virgins poster
5.6

Prophet John Wroe preaches of the coming Apocalypse and appeals for seven virgins to 'serve' him in his home. This series is their story. Based on the novel by Jane Rogers.

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

1993

No artwork available
3.8

Seven 40-year-olds are drawn together by a disturbing school reunion. Long-standing sexual tensions and emotional conflicts come to a head as the surreal secrets of apparently normal lives are revealed. Acting as a catalyst, the reunion forces the seven friends into a re-evaluation of their past and the present—and brings about an unexpected future.

40

2003

Falcón poster
6.1

Falcón is a brilliant detective whose personal and professional life is compromised by dark secrets from the past.

Falcón

2012

Cloudstreet poster
7.0

Cloudstreet is an Australian television drama miniseries for the Showcase subscription television channel, which first screened from 22 May 2011, in three parts. It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an award-winning novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was filmed in 2010 in Perth with Matthew Saville as the director, and script written by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana.

Cloudstreet

2011

No artwork available
7.7

The 100 Greatest Scary Moments is a British two-part documentary mini-series which aired on Channel 4 on 25 October and 26 October 2003. Celebrity guest interviews include Sigourney Weaver, John Carpenter, Janet Leigh, Wes Craven, Alice Cooper, Robert Englund, Christopher Lee and Steven Spielberg.

100 Greatest Scary Moments

2003

Behind the camera