 A brilliant international star (though more actress than star) of the 1990s, Wellington-born Kerry Fox was first noticed as tormented New Zealand novelist Janet Frame in Jane Campion's biopic, An Angel at My Table (1992), with a frizz of red hair and striking intensity of feeling. Since then, she has filmed in Australia (very affecting in the little-seen The Sound of One Hand Clapping, d. Richard Flanagan, 1998), Canada (The Hanging Garden, UK/Canada, d. Thom Fitzgerald, 1997), Kenya (To Walk with Lions, UK/Canada, d. Carl Schulz, 1999) and the UK. Her most eye-catching British films are the black comedy cult success, Shallow Grave (d. Danny Boyle 1994), as one of the Edinburgh flatmates trying to dispose of a body, and Welcome to Sarajevo (UK/US, d. Michael Winterbottom, 1997) as the TV producer after more 'graphic' footage; and in 2001 she was involved in some controversially frank sex scenes in Intimacy (UK/France, d. Patrice Chéreau). Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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