Jorja Fox

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Actress • Producer

Birth Date: July 7, 1968

Age: 55 years old

Birth Place: New York City, New York

Attractive brunette actress Jorja Fox got her start with a brief modeling career before landing roles in some of television's most popular and critically acclaimed series including "ER" and "The West Wing" (both NBC) and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS). Born in New York City and raised in Melbourne Beach, Florida, Fox returned to her birthplace at age sixteen to being modeling after winning a local contest in Florida. With a whirlwind career that took her to Milan, she retired from modeling at the ripe age of eighteen and began honing her acting skills, studying with veteran character actor William Hickey at New York's Lee Strasberg Institute and making her acting debut in the 1989 independent feature "The Kill-Off."

Fox began the 1990s with roles in TV productions including the specials "Summer Stories: The Mall," an installment of "ABC Afterschool Specials" and "Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story," one of HBO's "Lifestories: Families in Crisis." A 1993 episode of "Law & Order" (NBC) marked Fox's transition to primetime series, where she would land a regular role as an investigator for the Chicago police on ABC's "Missing Persons" (1993-94). In 1996, Fox began her portrayal of Dr. Maggie Doyle, a gun-toting vegetarian lesbian who was in residency at the "ER" (NBC). A recurring character from 1996 through 1999, Doyle had some powerful scenes and storylines in the course of her run, and Fox handled her character with a combination of grace, reserve and vulnerability. Known to a wide audience for her portrayal of Maggie, Fox was featured in the groundbreaking 1997 "coming out" episode of ABC's "Ellen."

In 1999, Fox began a recurring role on the acclaimed NBC drama "The West Wing" playing Gina Tuscano, the Secret Service agent in charge of protecting the daughter (Elisabeth Moss) of the President of the United States (Martin Sheen). Leaving in 2000 to work full-time on "CSI," Fox and Tuscano could feasibly return to "The West Wing" thanks to an open-ended exit, but the success of "CSI" would seem to make such insurance unnecessary. Following the cases of the Las Vegas Police forensics team, the series captured an audience fascinated with the show's use of science and thrilled by the included drama. Here Fox played Sara Sidle, an inexperienced but hard-working and determined investigator hand-picked by William Petersen's Gil Grissom for the forensics team.

Though television has hosted her greatest successes to date, Fox has appeared in several films since her debut. A supporting role as Alan Arkin's love interest in the unimpressive comedy "The Jerky Boys" was one of three of the actress' big screen appearances in 1995, including black comedy "Dead Funny" and the romance "Alchemy." In 1997, in addition to a featured role in the NBC miniseries "House of Frankenstein 1997," Fox added to the less-seen but far more critically acclaimed independent feature "How to Make the Cruelest Month." A starring role in "The Hungry Bachelor's Club" came in 1999, and in 2001 she would be remembered as the murdered wife of a man suffering from anterograde amnesia (Guy Pearce) in the inventive and critically lauded feature "Memento."

In addition to film and television, Fox has worked on stage, co-founding the experimental theater group Honeypot Productions, and writing and starring in plays for the Los Angeles-based group.

Credits

Les Experts

Actor
Show
2022

The Irish Connection

Actor
Debbie
Movie
2022

CSI: VegasStream

Actor
Sara Sidle
Series
2021
77%

Access Daily

Guest
Show
2019

3022

Actor
Diane Ures
Movie
2019

The Animal People

Producer
Movie
2019

Live with Kelly and Ryan

Guest
Talk
2017

Roll With Me

Executive Producer
Movie
2017

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Extras

Actor
Show
2015

The Late Show With Stephen ColbertStream

Guest
Talk
2015

Unity

Narrator
Movie
2015

How I Became an Elephant

Producer
Movie
2012

3 Weeks to Daytona

Actor
Cheryl
Movie
2011

The Talk

Guest
Talk
2010

Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story

Narrator
Movie
2010

Drop Dead DivaStream

Guest Star
Marianne Neely
Series
2009
78%

CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationStream

Actor
Sara Sidle
Series
2000

CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationStream

Guest Star
Sara Sidle
Series
2000

The West WingStream

Guest Star
Agent Gina Toscano
Series
1999
81%

Tiara Tango

Actor
Liz Guild
Movie
1999

The Hungry Bachelors Club

Actor
Delmar Youngblood
Movie
1999

How to Make The Cruelest Month

Actor
Movie
1998

Velocity Trap

Actor
Alice Pallas
Movie
1998

House of Frankenstein

Actor
Miniseries
1997

Courthouse

Guest Star
Show
1995

Dead Funny

Actor
Fate 3
Movie
1995

Alchemy

Actor
Josie
Movie
1995

ERStream

Actor
Series
1994

ERStream

Guest Star
Series
1994

EllenStream

Guest Star
Series
1994

Missing PersonsStream

Actor
Officer Connie Karadzic
Series
1993

Missing Persons

Actor
Officer Connie Karadzic
Movie
1993

The Kill-Off

Actor
Myra Pavlov
Movie
1989

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‘CSI: Vegas’ EP on Conflict Between Gil & Sara, Hodges’ Past and More

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