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Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964) is an American film and television actress.

Biography

Early life

Fox, an actress of African-American and Native American descent, who was born in South Bend, Indiana, the daughter of Everlyena, a pharmaceutical technician, and William Fox, a private school administrator. She is a graduate of Arlington High School in Indianapolis, Indiana and Golden West College with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences.

Acting career

Fox moved to California to attend Golden West College. While in California she started acting professionally, first on soap operas such as Generations, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless. She was cast as Emily Franklin in the pilot episode of ABC's Living Dolls a sitcom and spinoff of Who's the Boss? but was replaced with Halle Berry for the remaining episodes. In another early role saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series Out All Night. She also appeared as Jazz's sister on the hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She got her big break in film in the 1996 movies Independence Day and Set It Off. From there, she was cast in many other films and earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of Maxine in the 1997 motion picture Soul Food, which netted her MTV Movie Award and NAACP Image Award nominations. In 2000, she portrayed Dr. Lillian Price during the first season of the CBS medical drama City of Angels.
Fox also played roles in Idle Hands, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Two Can Play That Game and Juwanna Mann before landing the role of assassin Vernita Green in the 2003 Quentin Tarantino vehicle, Kill Bill. Fox has also tried her hand at voice acting, providing her voice for roles in the television cartoons Ozzy & Drix and Kim Possible. In 2004, Fox was in an episode of Punk'd where her pregnant friend Tichina Arnold pretended to go into labor, but they became angry when a paramedic appeared to care more about taking pictures than delivering the baby.
From 2004 to 2006 Fox starred in the drama series, Missing on the Lifetime Television Network with Caterina Scorsone and Mark Consuelos. Upon her duration on the series, she was also one of the show's co-executive producers. Fox participated in the third season of ABC's hit television show, Dancing with the Stars, she was voted off after the fourth week. In September 2007, she appeared in the sixth season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm as a mother of a family displaced by a hurricane and taken in by Larry and Cheryl.

Personal life

In December 1998, Fox married singer Christopher Harvest (aka Sixx-Nine) whom she later divorced in June 2002. Fox's relationship with the rapper 50 Cent earned her playful nods from Missy Elliott in her song "I'm Really Hot", The Game in "Dreams", and from 50 Cent himself in "Get In My Car". She was also mentioned in Game's diss song 300 Bars and Runnin' which dissed 50 Cent.
On March 20, 2007, Fox was arrested for DUI. At 10:57 PM on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley, Vivica reportedly passed a marked police car while going 80 mph. She was taken to Van Nuys jail where she submitted to two breathalyzer tests which were over the 0.08 legal limit according to California Highway Patrol (CHP) spokesman Leland Tang.

Filmography

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Set It Off (1996)
Booty Call (1997)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Soul Food (1997)
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
Idle Hands (1999)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Double Take (2001)
Kingdom Come (2001)
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Little Secrets (2001)
Juwanna Mann (2002)
Boat Trip (2002)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Ride or Die (2003)
Motives (2004)
Ella Enchanted (2004)
Blast! (2004)
Hair Show (2004)
The Salon (2005)
My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage (2005) (documentary)
Getting Played (2005)
The Hard Corps (2006)
Natural Born Komics (2006)
Citizen Duane (2006)
Kicking It Old Skool (2007)
Motives 2: Retribution (2007)
Three Can Play That Game (2008)
Cover (2008) Upcoming:
Marble City (2008)
Father of Lies (2008)
Street (2008)
Broken Lizard's The Slammin' Salmon (2008)
Major Movie Star (2008)
Caught On Tape (2008)
San Saba (2008)
Miss Nobody (2008)
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare (2008) (voice)
Hacking Hollywood (2009)
The Sisters (2009)
Untitled Whitney Houston Biopic (2009)

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