Vivica Fox is a black American actress. One of her most striking film appearances is the role of Vernita Green in Quentin Tarantino's stylish film Kill Bill. Part 1 . In total, she has more than 150 works in films and TV series on her account. In addition, in a number of projects, Vivica Fox has proven herself as a successful producer.
Early years, education and early roles
Vivica Fox was born on July 30, 1964. Her father's name is William, and her mother's name is Everlina. The actress is of Native American and African American roots.
Vivica spent all her childhood in Indianapolis, where she went to high school. She received further education at the prestigious Golden West College. After graduating from this institution, Vivica became a bachelor of social sciences.
The girl began her TV career in 1988 with small roles in such soap operas as Days of Our Lives (this is one of the longest TV series ever in history) and The Young and the Restless. But she got one of the main roles only a few years later - in the sitcom of the NBC television channel "All Night" (1992-1993). This sitcom, where the aspiring actress played a heroine named Charis Chamberlain, was released in prime time, but was canceled after 20 episodes. It is also worth noting that the famous black singer Patti Lubbel was Vivica's filming partner here.
Also in the first half of the nineties, Vivica was noted for playing in the TV series "Beverly Hills 90210", "Martin", "Single Men and Single Women."
Then the actress starred in the cult comedy "Do not threaten South Central while drinking your juice in your neighborhood." She was given the role of the mother of the protagonist - a guy named Ashtray.
Further acting career
The year 1996 was especially important for Fox's career and biography. This year a fantastic blockbuster with her participation "Independence Day" (directed by Ronald Emmerich) was released. This film was able to earn more than $ 800 million at the box office (with a budget of 75 million). By the way, this tape, which tells about the invasion of the Earth by evil aliens, eventually won an Oscar for the best visual effects. Also in 1996, the actress starred in the film Challenge. The main characters of this film are four girlfriends from the same quarter, who one day team up to rob banks. Actually, here Vivica played one of her friends - Francesca Setton. Thanks to these two films, many film critics turned their attention to the actress, and American directors began to offer her good roles.
The following year, 1997, Vivica had both failures and successes. The American television channel Fox gave the black actress her own sitcom "Getting Personal". But the audience didn't really like it and therefore only lasted seventeen episodes. On the other hand, during the same period, Vivica Fox very worthily played the role of Maxine in the drama "Food for the Soul", which tells about the life of African Americans in America. For this role, the actress was soon even awarded an MTV channel award. Then she starred in such films as "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "Miraculous Transformation," The Killer Hand "," Kill Miss Tingle ".
In 2000, Vivica Fox landed a role in the first season of the CBS drama series City Angels. This series was dedicated to the everyday life of doctors who dedicated their lives to treating poor and homeless people.
In 2001, Vivica Fox played in the comedy "In the Next World". And here she happened to work in the frame with such a star as Whoopi Goldberg.
Also in the first half of the 2000s, Vivica starred in the large-scale dilogy "Kill Bill" (directed by Quentin Tarantino). Here she played the role of Vernita Green, one of the members of the "squad of deadly vipers." The spectacular fight between Vernita and Beatrix (played by Uma Thurman) can be seen in the first film of the dilogy.
Today, Vivica continues to play in TV shows and films (it should be admitted that many of the films with her participation are not even shown in cinemas, but are released directly on TV or DVD). Among her most recent accomplishments is her appearance in the Tornado Shark TV series, which is a huge success in America due to the absurdity of the plots. More specifically, Vivica appears in the second and sixth (final) parts of this series.
And more recently, in February 2019, the fantastic film "Hybrid" was released, where the actress convincingly played the President of the United States, Ellen Henriksen.
Other activities of Vivica Fox
In the early 2000s, Fox set up her own production company and got serious about producing feature films and multi-part projects. The first of these projects was the series "Clairvoyance Mission" (2003-2006) for the Lifetime channel. By the way, Vivica showed herself here as an actress - she played one of the key roles.
Over the past few years, Fox has produced, among other things, such films as "The Crazy Child" (TV, 2016) "Christmas Cruise" (TV, 2017) "Deceiving Impression" (2018), "A Christmas Wedding" (2018).
Fox has also hosted a number of television shows. In 2006, she participated in the third season of the Dancing with the Stars project, and in 2015, in the Candidate show. It is also worth noting that she was one of the jury members at the Miss Universe 2011 ceremony.
And one more interesting fact. In 2009, Vivica Fox began working with the American company Amekor Industries, which has been producing and distributing wigs and hairpieces for several decades. The result was an original collection of wigs called "Vivika Fox". This collection is focused primarily on African American buyers.
Personal life
In 1998, Fox became the wife of singer Christopher "Sixx-Nine" Harvest. The couple divorced in 2002. After that, for a while, the actress met with rapper Curtis Jackson (stage name - Fifty Saint). Vivica wrote about this relationship herself in her memoir book “I Turn Every Day”, which went on sale in 2018. From this book you can find out that in bed it was she, and not the rapper, who had to take the initiative into her own hands.
In early 2011, Vivica Fox was engaged to club promoter Omar White. However, ten months later, in November of the same year, it was torn apart.
Vivica Fox has no children, and in an interview she said that she was very sorry about this.
