American actor Matthew Fox is the leading actor in one of the cult TV series Lost. He embodied the image of a charismatic team leader.
The secret of the success of one of the most expensive television projects was not only a famously twisted plot, but also a competent selection of actors. Initially, Fox's hero died in the first episodes. However, the producers liked the story of the attractive character and the personal qualities of the performer so much that he appeared in each episode for six years.
Carier start
The future famous artist was born in Abington. The biography of Matthew Chandler Fox began in 1966, on July 14. Mom worked as a teacher at school, father worked as a consultant in an oil company. The boy spent his childhood on the farm. In Crowhart, the family of the future celebrity took up growing barley and raising livestock.
After graduating from high school, the graduate entered the Deerfield Academy. He continued his education at the Faculty of Economics at Columbia University. While the young man was preparing for a career on Wall Street, one of his mother's friends, an employee of a modeling agency, invited a guy with a textured appearance to appear in an advertisement.
Matthew liked the new activity, but he completed his education, received a diploma. For two years, Fox worked as a model and at the same time studied acting courses. He moved to Los Angeles.
The aspiring actor had to attend many castings, listening to numerous director failures and experiencing financial difficulties.
Matthew was already thinking about continuing the farming family business, and not about a film career. Luck came in 1992. Fox landed a small role in the television series Wings. He was followed by a successful and notable work in the TV show "We Are Five". For six seasons, the telenovela received a Golden Globe.
In 1993, the artist got the main role in the melodramatic film with elements of the horror film "The Boy from the Other World". At the same time, Matthew was cast in the teenage series "Special School Holidays".
In 2002, the actor was offered the main character of the mystical thriller "Ghost Whisperer". Fox's character is an unusual police officer. Frank Taylor solves tangled cases with his special gift. Ghosts who want to punish their offenders give the police the right hints in the investigation.
Star role
Two years later, the artist again got a job in a project related to secrets and mysticism. He was invited to play in the telenovela Lost or Lost. Matthew really hoped to play the bad guy Sawyer. Fox believed that this character has many of his own characteristics.
Jack Shepard was originally intended for Michael Keaton, but the actor refused to act because of the too short lifespan of the movie hero. Matthew agreed to participate. The artist's tattoos, carefully disguised at first, made by him in his youth, fit perfectly into the image. The directors came to the conclusion that the tattoos perfectly convey the inner world of Shepard. In an interview, the actor admitted that he could not even imagine the success of the project.
The artist's performance impressed the producers so much that changes were made to the script. Telenovela ran from 2004 to 2010. The actors who starred in the project became stars. The fame and the performer of the role of a charismatic and courageous doctor did not pass by. He has grown to become one of the highest paid serial performers.
At the same time filming of the drama "We are one team", the dramatic action movie "Smokin 'Aces" was going on, work began on the adaptation of the anime about the Speed Racer. In 2008, Fox was offered the voiceover for the computer game Speed Racer.
After completing six years of work in his most significant series, the artist gave up filmmaking for a year for time with his family. The audience saw the idol again in the role of the maniac Sullivan in the 2012 thriller "I, Alex Cross". He was very happy about the negative role he had received.
Family matters
The artist's wife kept her husband on a vegetable diet while working, and trainer Simon Waterson worked with him to achieve excellent physical shape for the performer. At the same time, Fox played in the historical drama "The Emperor" by General Bonner Fellers. The picture shows the events after the surrender of Japan in World War II. Hero Matthew must decide whether to consider the emperor a war criminal.
With Brad Pitt, the artist starred in the action movie "War of the Worlds Z" in 2013. Work on the post-apocalyptic project went on in several countries. The picture became the opening film of the festival in Moscow.
Fox's latest artistic work in 2015 includes post-apocalyptic Westerns. In Extinction, Matthew's character, Patrick, forgets old grudges and unites in the fight against monsters with his neighbor Jack. The Bone Tomahawk has elements of a horror movie and Western attributes.
Fox's personal life was happy. At twenty-five he got married. His wife, Margarita Ronchi, is a former model. Acquaintance of the artist with the chosen one happened during his part-time job as a courier. He delivered a bouquet to the girl.
At the end of the summer of 1998, the first child, daughter Kylie, appeared in the family. Three years later, the son of Byron was born. During the filming of Lost, the entire family moved to Hawaii, then moved to Oregon.
The artist is a fan of the football clubs Eagles of Philadelphia and Arsenal. He is interested in swimming, surfing, horse riding and photography. Despite the presence of several of his pages on Instagram, Matthew does not use the resource.
