Emilia Fox
Families have become big things in acting with Mills, Barrymore and Carradine all passing the profession down the generations.
And over the years the name Fox has become synonymous with acting, both on screen and in the theatre so FemaleFirst takes a look at their family tree.
Laurence is the new breed of the Fox family currently enjoying success in television series Lewis, a spin off to Morse, as well as having theatre and film credits.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) his big break came in 2001 when he starred in The Hole with Thora Birch and Keira Knightley.
This led to a role in Robert Altman's Gosford Park that same year. Written by Julian Fellows the film had a great ensemble cast of Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Clive Owen and Kristin Scott Thomas.
The film went on to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. But it was his performance in Colditz in 2005 that proved to be his breakthrough performance.
Since then he has gone on to land the role of D.S. James Hathaway in Lewis, now in it's third series. He has also had roles in Becoming Jane and Elizabeth: The Golden Age movie Bob's Not Gay is currently in pre-production.
As well as television and film Fox has also found success on the stage, his most recent theatre run coming in 2006-2007 in Treats, where he met his wife Billie Piper.
But Laurence had acting in the blood as he followed in the footsteps of his father James, now an OBE. James made his debut back in 1950 when he appeared in The Miniver Story.
He went on to star in The Servant, The Chase, Isadora and Performance throughout the sixties and early seventies.
But the death of his father led to James taking a ten year break from his acting career, returning in 1984 with A Passage to India.
Since then he has mixed television and movies appearing in the likes of A Question of Attribution and Margaret for TV and movies such as Sexy Beast, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Mister Lonely.
He will appear in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes later this year which stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.
Robert Fox, James' younger brother, also found success in the acting industry but as a producer rather than a thespian.
In a career that has spanned over twenty years Robert has produced for West End and Broadway theatre productions, most recently he worked with Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz which was a record breaker in Australia.
As well as Jackman he has worked with the likes of Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith and is currently working on plays The Vertical Hour and Frost/Nixon.
But he has also had many film credits to his names including Closer, The Hours and Iris.
Edward Fox is the older brother of James and Roberts and he too embarked on an acting career, following in the footsteps of his mother Angela Worthington.
He made his theatre debut in 1958 but it wasn't until four years later that he would make his big screen debut in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Throughout the late sixties and seventies he carved a career for himself in the British film industry starring in movies such as Oh! What a Lovely War and Battle of Britain. But it was his 1973 movie The Day of the Jackal that was his breakthrough, and still remains his most famous.
His career soared and he went on to appear in A Bridge Too Far, Gandhi and television drama Edward and Mrs Simpson.
Emilia, the daughter of Edward, is another of the Fox dynasty that is enjoying success at the moment.
She took over from Amanda Burton in BBC crime drama Silent Witness in 2004. But she made her debut back in 1995 in Pride and Prejudice as Mr Darcy's sister.
She has created a career for herself predominately in television with The Virgin Queen, Marple and Fallen Angel.
However she has slowly moved into movies when she starred alongside Daniel Craig in Flashbacks of a Fool last year, her most high profile film role.
She will return to the big screen later this year when she teams up with fellow Brits Ben Barnes and Colin Firth for the adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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