Born:
July 30, 1964
in
South Bend, Indiana
Best Known For:
Playing Vernita Green in the Kill Bill films.
Early-life:
Vivica Anjanetta Fox was born on July 30, 1964 in South Bend, Indiana. She lived in Indianapolis before moving to California to attend Golden West College to study for an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences. While in California, she began her professional acting career on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Career:
Fox made her film debut in Oliver Stone's war drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989). She got her breakthrough in Independence Day (1996) playing Jasmine Dubrow, a role she reprised for Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). Fox later appeared in the films Soul Food (1997), City of Angels (2000) and in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films as the assassin Vernita Green. She has also appeared in a number of TV shows, such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Law and Order, Alias and Missing.
Quote:
"I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV there's not much of a guarantee. They can pull the plug on you."
Trivia:
She was married to singer Christopher Harvest, otherwise known as Sixx-Nine, between 1998 and 2002 and briefly dated rapper 50 Cent in 2003.