Julia Fox

Julia Fox born February 2 1990 is an ItalianAmerican actress and filmmaker She is best known for her debut performance in the 2019 film Uncut Gems for which she was nominated for the Breakthrough Actor Award at the 2019 Gotham Awards Fox was born in Milan Italy to an Italian mother and an American father Fox spent her early years living with her grandfather At the age of six she moved to New York City with her father and lived in Yorkville Manhattan She worked several service jobs including at a shoe store an ice cream shop and a pastry shop Fox attended CityAsSchool High School and worked as a dominatrix for six months Prior to her role in Uncut Gems Fox was a clothing designer and launched a successful womens knitwear line Franziska Fox with her friend Briana Andalore She also worked as a model posing for the last nude edition of Playboy in 2015 and as an exhibiting painter and photographer She selfpublished two books of photography Symptomatic of a Relationship Gone Sour HeartburnNausea published in 2015 and PTSD published in 2016 In 2017 Fox hosted an art exhibit titled RIP Julia Fox which featured silk canvases painted with her own blood Fox made her feature film debut in the 2019 Safdie brothers film Uncut Gems playing a showroom saleswoman and mistress of the films protagonist Howard Ratner played by Adam Sandler an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict Fox had known the Safdie brothers for almost a decade after meeting Josh Safdie through a chance encounter at a cafe in SoHo Manhattan Fox also wrote and directed Fantasy Girls a short film about a group of teenage girls involved in sex work living in Reno Nevada She starred in Ben Hozies PVT Chat playing a cam girl named Scarlet She also played Vanessa Capelli in Oscarwinning director Steven Soderberghs period crime thriller No Sudden Move which was shot during the COVID19 pandemic Fox married Peter Artemiev a private pilot based out of Brighton Beach Brooklyn in November 2018 They reside in Yorkville Manhattan On February 14 2021 Fox announced the birth of her son