Vivica A. Fox Biography

NAME: Vivica Anjanetta Fox

OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress, Reality Television Star, Television Producer

BIRTH DATE: July 30, 1964 (Age: 47)

EDUCATION: Arlington High School, Indianapollis

PLACE OF BIRTH: South Bend, Indiana

Vivica A. Fox was born in South Bend, Indiana July 30, 1964, and is the daughter of Everlyena, a pharmaceutical technician, and William Fox, a private school administrator. She is of Native American and African American descent and is proud of her heritage. She is a graduate of Arlington High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and, after graduating, moved to California to attend college. Vivica went to Golden West College and graduated with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences. While in California, she started acting professionally, first on soap operas such as "Generations" (1989), "Days of Our Lives" (1965) and "The Young and the Restless" (1973). In another early role, she played Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, on the NBC TV series "Out All Night" (1992).

Fox returned back to the big screen and was immediately cast alongside Halle Berry and Lela Rochon in "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" (1998), a feature film about the life and death of Frankie Lymon. She continued her work on the big screen and on television before picking up another television project. "City Of Angels" (2000), a television series that co-starred Fox as Dr. Lillian Price. In 2001, Fox was cast in "Little Secrets" and the following year she portrayed a WNBA star in the cross-dressing comedy "Juwanna Mann" (2002). After a role opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr., in the dismal comedy "Boat Trip" (2002), Fox was cast in one of best and most visible roles to date, playing the hard-hitting Vernita Green, one of the cadre of assassins marked for retribution by The Bride (Uma Thurman) in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" (2003).