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Binger - Screen International Interview 2008: actress Kerry Fox
Award-winning actress Kerry Fox will be the Guest of Honor of the Binger – Screen International Interview on Saturday September 27 at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht.
Editor of Screen International Michael Gubbins will talk with Fox about her award winning work, her international career and her passion for acting.
Born in New Zealand in 1966, Fox had her screen breakthrough as the star of Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table (1990). Her portrayal of New Zealand writer Janet Frame earned great acclaim, essentially jump-starting Fox’s career. She next gave a strong performance in Gillian Armstrong’s The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) and starred along with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston in Shallow Grave (1994, Danny Boyle).
Fox has gone on to build a truly international career, working far and wide in films such as Welcome to Sarajevo (1997, Michael Winterbottom), The Hanging Garden (1997, Thom Fitzgerald) and Fanny and Elvis (1999, Kay Mellor).
In 2001 she starred in the French film Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau), which touched off controversy because of its lengthy sex scenes. The film won the prestigious Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival that year and Fox the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Known as a director’s actor Fox chose to play in films that take her to all corners of the globe and made her lead a life as varied as the films in which she appears.
In the near future she can be seen in Storm (2009) by German director Hans-Christian Schmid and Bright Star (2009) the long-awaited new feature from the director that kicked of her career: Jane Campion.
The interview is a collaboration of Binger Filmlab, Screen International and Holland Film Meeting (the international section of the Netherlands Film Festival)