Lydia Fox (actress)
Lydia Fox (born 1979) is an English film, television, and stage actress and producer. She is also known by her married name, Lydia Ayoade.
Background and early life
The only daughter of James Fox and Mary Elizabeth Piper, she has four brothers, including the actors Laurence and Jack Fox.[1] Her father's parents were the theatrical agent Robin Fox and the actress Angela Worthington, for whom Noël Coward wrote the song "Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington". The Worthingtons did not have any daughters; their two granddaughters, Lydia included, are actresses.[2] Coward possibly used the comedy strategy wherein a notable person is flagged to be the name in a joke precisely because the facts prove that it is a joke.
Fox was educated at the University of Cambridge. While there, in 2001 she played Juliet in a Marlowe Society production of Romeo and Juliet, opposite Tom Hiddleston, to be reviewed as "a slightly nonchalant Juliet".[3]
Personal life
On 8 September 2007 Fox married the actor, writer, director and comedian Richard Ayoade.[2] They have two daughters, Esme Bibi (born 2009) and Ida.[4]
Television and film work
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) - Rick's wife
- AD/BC: A Rock Opera (2004) - Wise man
- Someone Else (2006) - Matt's girl
- Holby City, episode "Blood Ties" (2007) - Paloma Duncan
- Lilies (2007) - Marianne Parks
- The IT Crowd, episode "The Work Outing" (2007) - Laura
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) - Estate agent
- Submarine (2010) - Miss Dutton
- The Double (2013) - Invigilator
References
- ↑ HuffPost Staff, A Family of Foxes dated 15/10/2012 at Huffington Post online, accessed 23 September 2015
- 1 2 Alison Boshoff, The fabulously frisky Foxes in Daily Mail dated 23 January 2015
- ↑ Ayoade's In-laws at kinja.com, accessed 17 September 2015
- ↑ Trailing the British-Nigerian Superstar dated April 14 2015 at hfmagazineonline.com, accessed 24 September 2015
External links
- Lydia Fox at the Internet Movie Database
- Lydia Ayoade at the Internet Movie Database