Biography
Raised on a narrow barrier island, Fox attended Holy trinity Episcopal Academy, Hoover Junior High in Indialantic, Florida, and later, Melbourne High School. While growing up she took modeling classes, did some drama work in high school, and volunteered as a candy striper in a local hospital. At 16, Fox won a modeling contest at a local mall; midway through her senior year (1985) she left high school and moved back to her birthplace of New York to pursue an modeling career. During her time as a model, Jorja was roommates with Paula Ciccone, Madonna's younger sister. She took night classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Acting and also attended the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.Enjoying moderate success for independent films, Fox entered the lime-light in 1996 when she appeared on the hit NBC show, ER, as the no-nonsense medical intern and recurring character, Maggie Doyle, who happened to be a lesbian. Playing up that fame, Fox went on to guest star (uncredited) on the now-infamous 'coming out' episode of Ellen.
Fox went on to film the movies Velocity Trap, and The Hungry Bachelors Club/Food For The Heart. In 1999, Fox was cast as the recurring character of the Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano on NBCs The West Wing. Fox also appears in the movies Memento, Forever Fabulous and Down with the Joneses.
As the co-founder of Honeypot Productions, an independent avant garde theater company, she has mounted a number of plays, including Dear Bernard, which ran in LA in the summer of 2004. Fox also writes for the troupe, including the play Loving Stanley. Another of the founding members is Heather Reid of Gush, whom Fox met in 1991 at the American Academy of Dramatic Acting. ~JFO
A grassroots campaign started on August 2007, upon rumors of Jorja Fox leaving the show,[19] organized by the online forum Your Tax Dollars At Work. Many of its nineteen thousand members donated to the cause, collecting over $8,000 for gifts and stunts targeted at CBS executives and CSI's producers and writers. Some of the stunts included a wedding cake delivery to Carol Mendelsohn, 192 chocolate-covered insects with the message "CSI Without Sara Bugs Us." to Naren Shankar and a plane flying several times over the Universal Studios of Los Angeles with a "Follow the evidence keep Jorja Fox on CSI" banner.[20][21] Other protests included mailing the show's producers a dollar, so as to save Fox's contract "one dollar at a time". By October 16, 2007, according to the site's tally, more than 20,000 letters with money or flyers had been mailed to the Universal Studios and to CBS headquarters in New York from forty-nine different countries since the campaign started on September 29, 2007.[22][23][24] Fox and Mendelsohn chose to donate the money to CASA, a national association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children.[25] (from wikipedia)
Jorja's IMDb Biography
Date of Birth 7 July 1968, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name Jorja-An Fox
Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Mini Biography Jorja Fox has become a familiar face by playing major roles in three of the most successful television dramas in history: "ER" (1994), "The West Wing" (1999) and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000).
As a teenager, Fox had a career as a fashion model. She then turned to formal study of the acting craft at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, specifically under the tutelage of veteran actor William Hickey.
After appearing in several minor films and TV series, Fox got her big break in 1996 by landing a role in the immensely successful "ER" (1994) TV series. She appeared in 33 episodes as "Dr. Maggie Doyle" who became embroiled in a sexual harassment suit against a powerful hospital administrator. Fox then got a recurring role in the renowned "The West Wing" (1999) TV series where she portrayed a Secret Service agent who was in charge of protecting the President's college-age daughter. She had a key role in that series' cliffhanger episode where the President's entourage comes under gunfire by assassins.
Fox appeared as part of the regular cast of the popular TV series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000) where she portrayed one of the crime scene investigators until 2008. Fox shared in CSI's 2005 Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series.
In addition to her TV and movie roles, Fox is the co-founder of an experimental stage theater production company called "Honeypot Productions". Fox is also a musician and songwriter. She wrote and performed the song "Lullabye" which was featured in the movie Traveling Companion (1998). IMDb Mini Biography By: Roger Burns
Trivia Attended Hoover Junior High in Indialantic, Florida.She is part of a production company called Honeypot with Heather Grody (Murmurs singer/guitarist). They produce plays and recently a musical called Dear Bernard, written by Grody.Went to Melbourne High School in Melbourne, Florida, for two years before being "discovered" in a model search at a local mall.Her name, Jorja, is pronounced Georgia (like the state in the U.S.).Her mother was from Montreal, Canada.Her parents immigrated from Montreal: mother Marilyn (Belgian-Canadian, b. 1927, d. 1996), father (Irish-Canadian, b. 1924). She also has an older brother, Jeff (b. 1957).Co-founded the experimental theater group Honeypot Productions.In July 2004, Fox was fired from the hit show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000) for refusing to sign documentation stating she would return to work. Her co-worker, George Eads, was fired the day after she was for not showing up to work. Reportedly both actors wanted more money. Fox returned to work the following Thursday after being fired, and Eads the next day.Is a dedicated vegetarian, and an aspiring vegan.Has the following pets: Ali (dog, female boxer), Rumplestiltskin (cat), and Sid Poitier (cat, male, formerly named Sid Vicious)She ranked #80 in Stuff's "103 Sexiest Women" (2003).She enjoys traveling, playing the guitar, and singing.Best friend of actress Amy Carlson, whom she met on the Chicago set of the short- lived television series "Missing Persons" (1993) in 1993.Good friends with Emily Procter, who plays "Calleigh Duquesne" on the "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000) spin-off, "CSI: Miami" (2002).During the late 1980s when she was modeling in NYC, Jorja was roommates with Paula Ciccone - Madonna's sister.Has a purse named after her from the brand Matt & Nat. (www.mattandnat.com) which is an entirely vegan brand from Montreal, Canada.According to "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000) writer David Rambo (interviewed on the WGA picket line in November 2007 by the shipper site YTDaW), Jorja Fox herself wrote Sara's farewell note to Grissom in the episode "Goodbye and Good Luck".
Personal Quotes I've got to say for the record: If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend."The thing that surprises me is how much people just wanna be dead bodies on the show [CSI]." - CTV's "eTalkDaily", April 2006"If I read the scripts before I go to bed I still get nightmares." [on "CSI:"] - "The View" (1997), February 2004
Where Are They Now (February 2008) Co-producing "Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield", which runs February 7-24 at The Renberg Theatre in Los Angeles.She rejoined CSI in the 10th Season, and reappeared in the credits inthe premiere of Season 11, Shock Waves.In 2011, her first major film since Memento, 3 Weeks to Daytona (see page)was released. She continues as a regular on CSI, and her fan base continues to grow.
Eventually, we will have each of Jorja's films featured on this blog.
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