Born in Wellington on 30 July 1966, Kerry Fox started her career as a police officer on the hit TV series Night Of The Red Hunter before moving to Britain, where she made her breakthrough cinematic debut starring as writer Angela Frame in Jane Campion's award-winning movie An Angel At My table. She built an international career, working far and wide in quality independent movies like Country Life and Welcome To Sarajevo.
Kerry was never averse to showing a little flesh in her roles, like the breast-flashing, amoral medical student Juliet in Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave. But accepting the role of Claire, a married woman who meets a barman called Jay every Wednesday for anonymous sex in Intimacy, took Kerry's lack of celluloid inhibitions to a whole new level. Her partner, the British journalist Alexander Linklater, openly wrote of his misgivings about her accepting the role. And Gary Oldman, the actor originally scheduled to be the character who would get his cock sucked on screen opposite her, bottled out when he learned just how X-rated the scenes were to become. Kerry remains unapologetic for the role and joins a very small club of actresses who have performed genuinely hardcore scenes in mainstream movies.
