Freddie Fox (actor)
Fox appeared on the big screen in The Three Musketeers (2011), The Riot Club (2014), Pride (2014), Victor Frankenstein (2015), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Black '47 (2018) and Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019).He was named after Fred Zinnemann, who directed his father in The Day of the Jackal,[6] and after his great-great-grandfather Victorian industrialist Samson Fox,[4] who invented the corrugated boiler flue and built Harrogate's former Kursaal now known as the Royal Hall.He appeared in Lewis as Sebastian Dromgoole and in Tom Stoppard's critically acclaimed period drama Parade's End as Edward Wannop.[17][18] He appeared as Jeff Cole in the critically acclaimed historical comedy-drama Pride and starred in Anthony Fabian's Freeze-Frame (2014) commissioned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to promote collaboration between China and UK's film industries.[24][25] He then starred in The Northleach Horror as the maverick scientist Whitsuntide[26] and led the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Southwark Playhouse as Nick Bottom / Demetrius.[27] He performed as poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders and central figures of the Dada movement, in Tom Stoppard's Travesties from September until November 2016 at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the play being listed in The Arts Desk's Best of 2016: Theatre.It premiered in August at the Rhode Island International Film Festival where he won the Grand Prize (Short) for Directorial Discovery Award."[47][48][49] Fox then voiced Captain Holly in Watership Down[50] and played the characters Jokannen, Dorian Gray, and Lord Goring in The Importance of Being Oscar.[59] The London Evening Standard praised Fox's "ambiguous, wide-eyed look that hovers between angelic and devious, that it's hard to know whether to feel sympathy or suspicion."[61] The series won as Best New Drama at the 2020 TV Choice Awards[62] leading to its international release on HBO Max in September 2020 and on Netflix in February 2021.[63][64][65] In the same year, Fox guest-starred as the alcoholic busker Miles Stevens in McDonald & Dodds and as King Hugo of Sweden in Hulu's critically acclaimed comedy-drama series The Great (2020).[66] In 2021, Fox opened The Golden Era of Broadway episode of The Theatre Channel, singing an arrangement of "Willkommen" and "Money" from Cabaret,[67] and starred as Tony Kroesig, a Bullingdon club member and aristocrat banker turned politician, in The Pursuit of Love.[76][77][78][79][80] In 2020, he participated in a charity reading of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound that was produced by Lockdown Theatre in association with The Royal Theatrical Fund.[91] While promoting Cucumber in 2015, Fox stated that he hopes to "fall in love with another person, as opposed to a sex" and expounded further in 2020 saying that "being able to say that you have a more rounded experience as a human being, whether it be through sexuality, or whatever, is now perceived as a real advantage".