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Introduction
Laurence Fox is an actor and political activist. He famous for playing the supporting role of DS James Hathaway in the British TV drama series Lewis from 2006 to 2015. A grandson of the actors Robin and Angela Fox, and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Fox first appeared in The Hole (2001) and thereafter in numerous films, television features, and theatre productions. He is also a singer-songwriter and guitarist; his debut album, Holding Patterns, was released in February 2016.
Fox publicly opposed the George Floyd protests and opposed vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. After founding the Reclaim Party, Fox stood unsuccessfully in the 2021 London mayoral election in opposition to what he deemed “extreme political correctness”. He gained 1.9% of the vote, losing his deposit.
Early life
| Nmae | Laurence Fox |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Actor, Political activist |
| Age | 44 years |
| Height | 1.91m |
Laurence Fox was born on May 26, 1978 (age 44 years) in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. He is the third of the five children of James Fox and Mary Elizabeth Piper. His father, James, was the son of Robin Fox, a theatrical agent, who married Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, daughter of the playwright Frederick Lonsdale. Fox’s siblings are Tom (born 1975), Robin (born 1976), Lydia (born 1979), and Jack (born 1985); Lydia and Jack are actors. Lydia Fox is married to actor Richard Ayoade. His uncles are the actor Edward Fox and the theatrical and film producer Robert Fox. The actors Emilia and Freddie Fox are his first cousins, being the children of Edward Fox.
Fox was enrolled at Harrow School at the age of 13 and was expelled a few weeks before his A-levels. He was unable to obtain a place at any university, due to a report about him from Harrow. After working as a gardener and as an office worker, he discovered that he preferred acting and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). During his time there, he appeared in numerous theatre productions, including the lead roles of Gregers Werle in Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, Marcus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus, and Stephen Daedalus in an adaptation of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. His first break into film was the horror-thriller The Hole (2001).
Career
Laurence Fox graduated from RADA on 1 July 2001 and followed The Hole by appearing in Robert Altman’s film Gosford Park (2001). 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. The next day, at a meeting regarding a new project, Whately mentioned that Fox “would be worth taking a look at”.
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Fox was cast in the ITV detective drama Lewis as Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, 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. Fox has also portrayed 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’s adaptation of A Room with a View based on E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel.
He appeared in Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw at the Strand Theatre (now the Novello Theatre) in London in 2002, and John Ford’s 17th-century play ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore in 2005. Between 2006 and 2007 he starred in Treats by Christopher Hampton with his future wife, Billie Piper. In April 2007, Fox received a police caution after he was arrested for assault when he punched a photographer outside the Garrick Theatre in London where he was performing in Treats. The caution remained on his record for three years.
In 2013, Laurence Fox played Guy Haines in Strangers on a Train at London’s Gielgud Theatre. On 9 May 2015, he read a letter written by a soldier three days prior to his death in the Second World War, as part of VE Day 70: A Party to Remember, an anniversary concert for VE Day. Fox released his debut album Holding Patterns in 2016 through his own label Fox Cub Records. His second album A Grief Observed was released in 2019. Holding Patterns peaked at number 89 in the UK album chart.
In 2018, Fox joined the cast of the ITV series Victoria, playing Lord Palmerston, for its third season, which first aired on PBS in January 2019. In November 2020, Fox was dropped by his talent agency Artists Rights Group after claiming on Question Time that an audience member’s description of him as a “white privileged male” was “racist”. He had been dropped by his previous managers Authentic Talent in March of the same year. In 2021, Fox w as hired to star as Hunter Biden in a Robert Davi directed biopic titled My Son Hunter along with Gina Carano and John James.
In 2019, Fox told The Times that after watching YouTube videos he had become “totally radicalised” against “woke culture” and “political correctness”. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox frequently criticised the British government’s response to the pandemic and encouraged disobedience of the government’s social distancing rules and other public health restrictions. During an interview on Good Morning Britain, Fox said “if the NHS can’t cope, then the NHS isn’t fit for purpose.” The show’s hosts, Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, condemned his comments. During a national lockdown in March 2021 Fox participated in an anti-lockdown protest.
Laurence Fox was also visited by police after being reported for allegedly breaking rules during election campaigning, although no action was taken. Appearing as a panellist on the BBC’s political debate programme Question Time in January 2020, Fox said that Meghan Markle was not a victim of racism and described an audience member who called him a “white privileged male” as racist. In March 2020, the actors’ union, Equity, which had described Fox as “a disgrace to our industry” because of his views, withdrew the criticism and apologised for it.
In January 2020, he attracted media attention for stating that the depiction of a Sikh soldier in the film 1917 was “forced diversity,” in spite of Sikh soldiers having fought on the Western Front in World War I. When interviewed on television, Fox explained: “I suppose it would have been less incongruous to me if he’d got on the truck to a whole regiment of Sikh soldiers” and reflected “I mean, as you’ve noticed, I say quite a lot of unfortunate things, but I think it’s really important that one is able to express one’s opinion.” He followed by apologising on Twitter to “Fellow humans who are Sikhs,” stating: “I am as moved by the sacrifices your relatives made as I am by the loss of all those who die in war, whatever creed or colour” and concluded “Please accept my apology for being clumsy in the way I expressed myself.”
In September 2020, Laurence Fox said that he had been “cancelled” by fellow actor and Lewis co-star Rebecca Front, because she had blocked him on Twitter over his use of the All Lives Matter counter-slogan in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Fox later apologised for revealing this through tweeting a private text conversation between the two performers, in which Front had explained her reasons for blocking him. In August 2021, Fox posted a tweet stating “Get kneeling, fuckers” about the recent arrest of black footballer Benjamin Mendy on charges of rape and sexual assault. The tweet was removed by Twitter and the account was temporarily locked for violating its rules against “hateful conduct.”
In June 2022 Laurence Fox tweeted an image of a swastika made from the LGBTQ+ Progress Pride flag with the caption “You can openly call the [Union Jack] a symbol of fa[s]cism and totalitarianism on Twatter. You cannot criticise the holy flags.” This led to him being temporarily suspended from Twitter for a day. His actions were publicly condemned by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Other works
Laurence Fox attracted funding for a new political party in September 202, provisionally called Reclaim, and dubbed “UKIP for culture”. It emerged in October 2020 that the party name had yet to be successfully registered with the Electoral Commission and that there was a naming conflict with the “Reclaim Project” of Manchester, an established charity in Manchester endeavouring to give opportunities to working-class children. The name Reclaim Party was approved in February 2021 as an identity mark for Brexit Express.
Fox announced in March 2021 that he would stand in the London mayoral elections, in order to “fight against extreme political correctness” and pledging to “end the Met’s obsession with diversity and inclusivity.” His candidacy was endorsed by Reform UK, who stood aside for him in the election, and Nigel Farage. In mid-April 2021 Fox was polling at around 1%, tied with Count Binface. The major source of Fox’s campaign funds was Brexit backer Jeremy Hosking, who, in the first quarter of 2021, gave the Reclaim Party more than £1,000,000 in cash and services. Fox finished in sixth place with 47,634 votes (1.9%) in the mayoral election. He lost his £10,000 election deposit.
In October 2020, Fox announced he would boycott Sainsbury’s because they “support racial segregation and discrimination” referencing the store establishing safe spaces for black employees, while asking others to do the same. Sainsbury’s later clarified that the safe spaces were online support groups established in response to Black Lives Matter and were promoted as part of support for Black History Month.
Feeling he was “falsely smeared as a racist”, Fox replied to a number of tweets reacting to that announcement by calling their authors paedophiles. Two of those people, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK contestant Crystal and Simon Blake, deputy chair of the LGBT rights charity Stonewall, both gay men, later announced they would sue Fox for defamation. Fox deleted the tweets and explained in further tweets that he wanted to teach people a lesson in calling people something which they are not.
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In April 2021, Crystal and Blake lodged a claim for defamation in the High Court and were joined in the legal action by actress Nicola Thorp, whom Fox also called a paedophile. In response, Fox filed a countersuit over the accusations of racism. In April 2022, Fox requested a jury trial and claimed that “a judge could show involuntary bias”. Court documents revealed that this request cost Fox legal fees of more than £116,000. In May 2022 the request was refused. Later that month the High Court ruled that Fox must pay more than £36,000 in legal fees to Crystal, Blake and Thorp.
Wife
Laurence Fox was married to Billie Piper, they had their wedding in December 2007 until divorcing in 2016. His ex-wife is an actress and they first started dating in 2006 while performing together in the stage play Treats. The couple have two sons, born in 2008 and 2012. In March 2016, Piper announced the couple had separated. On 12 May 2016, Fox and Piper were divorced. Fox was raised as an evangelical Christian. In a 2012 interview to The Independent, Fox described himself as a “vaguely lapsed Christian” and, while he thinks that “the world is a better place for people who believe in God” he personally has not “quite squared that circle”. However, he also stated that he prays from time to time. On 10 January 2022, Fox’s engagement to Arabella Neagle was announced in The Daily Telegraph.
Laurence Fox Net Worth
How much is Laurence Fox worth? Laurence Fox net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his primary work as an actor. Laurence Fox’s salary per month and other career earning are over $500,000 dollars annually. His remarkable achievements have earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. He is one of the richest and influential actors in the United Kingdom. He stands at an appealing height of 1.91m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.