Laurence Fox

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Laurence Fox : biography

1978 –

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Theatre

Year(s)of appearance Production Role Awards and nominations
19–28 October 2000 title=Autumn 2000 productions|url=http://www.rada.org/grad01/prod003.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071226001354/http://www.rada.org/grad01/prod003.html|archivedate=26 December 2007|publisher=Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|year=[2000–2001]|accessdate=19 March 2008}}; .by Howard Brenton

Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, London, England

The DG/Earl of Northumberland
[While at RADA] The Wild Duck (1884)by Henrik Ibsen Gregers Werle
[While at RADA] Titus Andronicus (1584 – early 1590s)by William Shakespeare Marcus Andronicus
[While at RADA] Ulyssesbased on the James Joyce novel first published in its entirety in 1922 Stephen Daedalus
[While at RADA] The Wild Goose Chase (1652)by John Fletcher Belleur
[While at RADA] The Provoked Wife (17th century)by John Vanbrugh Constant
8–17 February 2001 Hobson’s Choice; . (first performed 1916)by Harold Brighouse

Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, London, England

Fred Beanstock
2002 Mrs Warren’s Profession (1893)by George Bernard Shaw

Strand Theatre, London, England

Frank Gardner
2005 ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (first performed 1629–1633)by John Ford

Southwark Playhouse, London, England; and United Kingdom tour

Soranzo
2006–2007 Treats (1975)by Christopher Hampton

Garrick Theatre, Richmond Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and Southwark Playhouse, London, England

Patrick
2012 Our Boys (1993)by Jonathan Guy Lewis

Duchess Theatre, London, England

Joe

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Career

Fox, who graduated from RADA on 1 July 2001,; . followed up The Hole by appearing in Robert Altman’s 2001 Academy award-winning film Gosford Park. He then donned uniforms in a slew of film and television features, including roles as a German airman in Island at War (2004), an SS officer in The Last Drop (2005), and as British soldiers in the 2002 films Deathwatch and Ultimate Force, and in Colditz (2005). In the last made-for-television film, Fox played Capt. Tom Willis who, after an unsuccessful attempt to break out of a prisoner-of-war camp, is brought to Oflag IV-C in Colditz Castle, one of the most infamous German POW camps for officers in World War II. Actor Kevin Whately caught Fox’s performance in the last ten minutes of the film, which he characterised as "this young English boy going bonkers and wandering out to be shot", and thought "He’s interesting." The next day, at a lunch meeting with "all the powers that be" regarding a new project, Whately mentioned that Fox "would be worth taking a look at"..

As a result, Fox was cast in the ITV detective drama Lewis as Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, a Cambridge-educated former trainee priest who becomes the partner of Detective Inspector Robert Lewis, played by Whately. The pilot of this spin-off from Inspector Morse (1987–2000), was ITV’s highest rated drama of 2006..

Real persons that Fox has portrayed include Prince Charles, in Whatever Love Means (2005);; . Wisley, one of Jane Austen’s suitors, in Becoming Jane (2007); and Sir Christopher Hatton, the Lord Chancellor of England in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, also released in 2007. In addition, in that year Fox was seen on ITV as Cecil Vyse in Andrew Davies’ adaptation of A Room with a View based on E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel. He has expressed a desire to appear in a western, and to star as James Bond – the closest he got to the latter was losing the role of villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day (2002) to Toby Stephens..