Jorja Fox - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

Like many a Hollywood beauty, she was first discovered by the modeling world.  As a joke, the 15 year-old Fox entered a modeling contest at a local mall in her Florida hometown, never expecting to win.  She recalls that she was "a fish out of water because I wasn't a classic beauty. In Florida, beauty was all about being blond and tan. I'm a tall, gangly, dark-haired Irish girl. I just didn't fit the bill."  Nevertheless, win she did.  The contest’s prize included an offer extended by Elite, the high profile modeling agency, to the winner to live and work in New York City.  After spending the summer testing the modeling waters, Fox decided to stay in the city and complete high school.  She appeared mostly in print media in the U.S.  and also modeled in Europe, eventually returning to New York at age 18. By this time, Fox began to explore acting, studying with veteran character actor William Hickey at New York's Lee Strasberg Institute as she auditioned for roles.  At age 19, she scored her first movie role in a brooding independent film, “The Kill-Off,” which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989.   Over the next few years, she won a series of small parts in films, which were enough to convince her that she was on the right career path. 

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