Biography
When movie fans hear the name Matthew Fox, then the first thing is remembered by one of the most expensive and popular cult shows - the television series "Lost". In many ways, the series is owned by his success, the famously swirling plot and the correct selection of cast. The image of the charismatic leader of the team embodied Matthew Fox. His hero should be perished in the pilot series. But or either the story of a beautiful and strong doctor liked producers, or the personal qualities of the actor played their role, as a result, the shooting stretched for six years.Childhood and youth
Matthew Chandler Fox from Abington, Pennsylvania, where he was born on July 14, 1966. His mother of Loretta, in the blood of Italian, worked as a school teacher, and Francis's father is a consultant in the oil company. Matthew's childhood passed away from large cities, on a farm in Crochart. Here the family was engaged in breeding livestock, growing barley.
After graduation in the biography of Fox, Dirfield Academy appeared in Massachusetts and Columbia University. Matthew has studied the economy, perhaps his career on Wall Street was waiting for him. But the mother of one of his girlfriends worked in a modeling agency. An agent's eye was noted by the textured appearance of the student and suggested to play in advertising. Matthew liked the process, but he still received a diploma of economist.
Two years Fox worked as a photo model and in parallel studied at the acting courses in New York. Then he moved to the world capital of entertainment and film industry Los Angeles.
Films
In Hollywood, infinite castings were followed by castings, refusals of directors and lack of money. At some point, Fox even decided to forget about the cinema and continue the family farm business.
Matthew was able to get in touch with the world in 1992 in a small episode in the TV series "Wings". A project in which the actor stated loudly about himself, was the good and optimistic show "COLAGE FIRST" with Scott Wolfe and Niv Campbell. The series lasted six seasons and received the Golden Globe.
In 1993, Matthew Fox was already the main role in the painting "Guy from the Light", combining melodrama and horror film. In the same year, Fox appeared in the caste of the adolescent series "Special School Vacations". The film also starred Joanna Cassidy, Keanu Rivz, Jason Scott Lee, Patricia Art.
In 2002, the main role in the mystical series "talking with ghosts" was followed. The main character is an unusual policeman. Successfully disclosing Frank Taylor crime helps a special gift - communication with the world of the dead. Ghosts want to punish their offenders and give the police the necessary prompts. At first I didn't like Fox Scenario, and the actor agreed only because of the fee.
In 2004, Fox again collided with mysticism and mystery. The actors were invited to the role in the TV series "Light" ("lost") director Jay Jay Abrams. And to call the director Matthew forced his wife.
Foxh liked the "bad guy" Sawyer. Matthew considered that the character is very similar to himself, the owner of a mad temperament and an amateur provoke surrounding. But the role went to Josh Holowoe.
Dr. Jack Shepard was supposed to play Michael Keont. But the proposal rejected, since the character at the directing plan lived long. Matthew had nothing to lose, and besides, the fee for two weeks filmed was 70 thousand dollars.
The Fox Tattoo, which actor began to do in his youth, fit into the image of the doctor. At first they were masked, but then the director decided that the tattoo passes the inner world of Shepard well.
As Fox later admitted in an interview, he could not assume that with the "lost" would be as far as it was. Matthew impressed by Matthew The director changed the script, and the series was broadcast from 2004 to 2010.
"To stay alive" elevated in the rank of stars of the actors who took it in it. Including Matthew Fox. In addition, Fox is one of the highest paid serial artists: for one series in the fifth season, his fee amounted to 225 thousand dollars.
Simultaneously with the main in his career, the picture Fox replenished the filmography "We'd One Team", where I appeared with the thesis - Matthew McConaja, the dramatic militant Joe Karnakhan "Trump Touches", adventure adaptation of the anime "Speed-racer". In 2008, Fox participated in Speed Racer's sounding computer game. Upon completion of the filming in the six-year-old TV series, took an annual vacation to dedicate the family time.
Matthew returned to the screens in the image of the Manyak killer "Butcher" Sullivan in the Thriller "I, Alex Cross" 2012 release. Fox finally got a long-awaited negative role. The magnificent physical form in the film Fox is obliged to his wife, who planted her husband on a vegetable diet, and heavy training under the guidance of Simon Waterson. The viewers did not cause the film delight, and the fees did not even cover the budget spent on 35 million dollars.
In the same year, Matthew Fox fulfilled the role of General Bonner Fellers in the historic drama Peter Webber "Emperor". The film talked about the events that took place after the surrender of Japan in World War II. Before the hero of Fox is a question - to consider whether the emperor is a military criminal.
In 2013, Fox, together with Brad Pitt, starred in the postpocalyptic militant "War of the Worlds Z". The film was filmed in Malta, in Hungary, Scotland, Russia, used as a film opening of the Moscow International Film Festival. Because of the characteristics of the plot, despite the fact that later the script was rewritten, the picture was forbidden to show in China.
Among the latest works of the actor on the set - the next postpocalypse and Western. In the first entitled "Exhaustion" (or "Welcome to Harmony") Fox embodies the character of one of two friends - Patricks. Humanity fell victim to the virus and morally degrades. Patrick and neighbor Jek will have to forget the old resentment and unite in the fight against monsters.
The second film - "Bone Tomahawk" - combines Western and a horror film with the familiar genres of cannibals, blood flows and a bunch of corpses. In the caste paintings, Patrick Wilson is involved, Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins. Both films went on screens in 2015.
Personal life
Matthew Fox arranged a personal life in 25 years. Margarita Ronchi's wife is a former Italian model. Matthew met a girl when he worked as a courier and delivered Margo a bouquet of flowers.
In August 1998, the daughter of Kylie was born, after three years - son Byron. When the actor was filmed in the "stay alive", the family moved closer to the place of filming - in Hawaii, after settled in Oregon.
Fox - Fan of the Football Clubs "Arsenal" and "Orli Philadelphia". Failure to hobby surfing and baseball added swimming, horse riding and photography.
In Instagram registered several unbelievable pages with the name Matthew Fox, where the staged photos and shots from the filming are placed. But according to one of them, the fan, personally does not use the actor with this resource.
Matthew Fox now
In November 2017, the news about the death of the actor spread in Facebook. Representatives Matthew Fox later stated that it was a cruel joke and do not need to blindly believe what they write on the Internet.Filmography
- 1992 - "Wings"
- 1993 - "Guy from the Light"
- 1994-2000 - "We are five"
- 2002 - "talking with ghosts"
- 2004-2010 - "stay alive"
- 2006 - "We are one team"
- 2007 - "Trump Touches"
- 2008 - "Shelling Point"
- 2012 - "I, Alex Cross"
- 2013 - "War of the Worlds Z"
- 2015 - "Bone Tomahawk"