| Jorja Fox | |
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 Jorja Fox on the set of CSI, March 2004 |
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| Birth name | Jorja-An Fox |
| Born | July 7 1968 New York, New York, USA |
| Other name(s) | Jorjan Fox |
| Official site | http://www.jorjafox.org |
Jorja Fox (born Jorja-An Fox July 7, 1968, in New York, New York), is an American actress. She is best known for starring in three successful television dramas: ER, The West Wing and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2003, she was ranked #80 in Stuff magazine's list of the 103 sexiest women. She is annually nominated for PETA's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian".
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Biography
Early life
Fox is the youngest child of Montreal-born parents, and was raised on a narrow barrier island in Melbourne Beach, Florida. She describes herself as being overweight while growing up, with a prominent gap between her teeth.[1] By her twenties, neither her wisdom teeth nor braces had appreciably helped, and Fox said "forget it."[2] After attending Melbourne High School for two years, she began a modeling career after winning a local contest. Subsequently she enrolled as a drama student at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, under the tutelage of actor William Hickey.
Career
After appearing in several minor films and TV series, including a 1993 episode of Law & Order, Fox entered the limelight in 1996 when she joined the hit NBC television series ER, as the no-nonsense vegetarian and lesbian medical intern Dr. Maggie Doyle (credited as "Jorjan Fox"). Playing up that fame, Fox appeared on the coming out episode of Ellen ("The Puppy Episode Part 2", 30 April 1997). In 1999, she was cast as Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano on NBC's series The West Wing, where she starred for one season. Fox has appeared in the films Velocity Trap, Food for the Heart and she also appeared briefly in Memento, playing Guy Pearce's wife. In 2000, she became one of the characters of the CBS series CSI, in which she portrays a Las Vegas forensic scientist called Sara Sidle. She has announced that the show's current 2007-2008 season will be her last. On November 15 2007, the episode 'Goodbye and Good Luck', marked the final episode of CSI in which she would appear. She is the co-founder of Honeypot Productions, an independent avant-garde theatre company in Los Angeles. The company has produced five original plays, four of them written by Fox. The fourth play, Lovely Stanley, is a comedic romp about the women's bowling circuit.[3] Her friend and HoneyPot co-founder Heather Reid wrote Dear Bernard, which Fox helped produce. Fox is also a musician: she plays guitar (badly, she says) and recently purchased a drum kit. She also sings and writes songs, most notably the song "Lullabye" for the movie Traveling Companion, as well as the song "Satellite" which she published on her official web site. Jorja and CSI co-star Marg Helgenberger sang "Stand by Me" as a duet for What a Pair 4!!, an annual charity event to raise money for breast cancer research. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her dog Ali and two cats, Rumplestiltskin and Sid Poitier.
Activism
Fox is a supporter of the Human Rights Campaign[4] and—being a dedicated vegetarian since the age of 20—has worked with PETA to help promote vegetarianism.[5]
Controversy
She and CSI co-star George Eads received some bad publicity in 2004 when they were fired. Fox had allegedly failed to submit a letter to CBS confirming that she would be on time for shooting. The disputes were resolved in just over a week, and the two were rehired by CBS; however, neither actor's salary was raised, although other cast members did receive raises. It was also reported that of the two, Fox was approached first to resume her contract with CSI - but she refused until Eads was rehired as well.[6] On April 18, 2007, TV Guide began reporting that Fox may not be returning for the eighth season of CSI, having not yet signed a new contract.[7] The season finale turned out to be a cliffhanger involving her character, Sara Sidle.[8] The New York Post reported that Fox did not show up to film the finale because of ongoing issues over her employment.[9] Neither CBS nor Jorja's agent have confirmed the allegations. In September 2007, after rumors emerged about Fox's departure from the show,[10] an online forum called "Your Tax Dollars At Work", that has about 15,000 members, started a campaign to keep Sara Sidle on CSI, the campaign (called Dollars for Sense) includes mailing the show's producers a dollar so as to keep Fox on the show. With the help of donations, the campaign also organized plane flyovers, on Tuesdays and Thursdays of October's two first weeks, over the Universal Studios, in California, where CSI is filmed. The banners read"Keep Jorja Fox on CBS".[11][12] On October 15, 2007, Fox told Entertainment Weekly that she left CSI, saying that she wanted a break "from the commitment of a weekly television series."[13] As per the request of Fox, the money collected during the "Dollars for Sense" campaign will be donated to National CASA, an organization dedicated to aiding foster children.
Trivia
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- Her name is pronounced as "Georgia." She is most often credited as Jorja Fox, but has also been credited as "Jorjan Fox." Emily Procter, one of Fox's friends and a co-star in Forever Fabulous, calls her "Horha", how Jorja would be pronounced in Spanish, as a nickname.[14]
- Has a purse named after her by the Montréal company Matt & Nat, which designs Vegan purses.[15]
Partial filmography
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References
- ^ Stuff magazine, 2002
- ^ People magazine, 2003
- ^ http://toireasamoore.tripod.com/id2.html
- ^ jorjafox.org
- ^ GoVeg.com
- ^ "CSI Rehires Fox; Eads Waits to Hear"
- ^ Ask Ausiello
- ^ "Channel your energy for what May come during television sweeps month"
- ^ New York Post
- ^ http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/700000049
- ^ http://www.dollarforsense.com
- ^ http://tvfilter.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!DB9D137CC0F754C9!22137.entry
- ^ Lynette Rice (2007-10-15). Jorja Fox makes it official: She's leaving 'CSI'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
- ^ Evelyn Teo (2005-09-04). Procter prospers. www.star-ecentral.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-24.
- ^ http://www.mattandnat.com
