The Robin Fox family is a family with several members in the acting and related professions over a number of generations. Robin Fox (1913-1971), an actor and theatrical agent, and his wife Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, actress and daughter of the English playwright Frederick Lonsdale

Frederick Lonsdale

Frederick Lonsdale was an English dramatist.-Personal life:Lonsdale was born Lionel Frederick Leonard in St Helier, Jersey, the son of Susan and John Henry Leonard, a tobacconist. He began as a private soldier and worked for the London and South Western Railway...

, had 3 sons, including the actors James

James Fox

James Fox, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:James Fox was born in London, England to theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actor Laurence Fox is his son. His...

 and Edward Fox

Edward Fox (actor)

Edward Charles Morice Fox, OBE is an English stage, film and television actor.He is generally associated with portraying the role of the upper-class Englishman, such as the title character in the film The Day of the Jackal and King Edward VIII in the serial Edward & Mrs...

. Their other son, Robert Fox

Robert Fox (producer)

Robert Michael John Fox is an English theatre and film producer, whose work includes the 2002 film, The Hours.-Life and career:...

, became a theatrical agent. Their grandchildren include the actors Emilia Fox

Emilia Fox

Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an award-winning English actress, known for her role as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama Silent Witness, having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of Amanda Burton. She also appears as Morgause in the BBC's Merlin beginning in the programme's second...

, Laurence Fox

Laurence Fox

Laurence Fox is an English actor best known for his leading role as Detective Sergeant James Hathaway in the British TV drama series Lewis...

 and Lydia Fox. Robin Fox is the grandson of Samson Fox

Samson Fox

Samson Fox was a British engineer, industrialist, and philanthropist.-Life and career:Samson Fox was born in Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, to Jonas and Sarah Fox , and the family moved shortly afterwards to live in nearby Leeds...

 (1838-1903), a British engineer, industrialist and philanthropist.

Dynastic Roots

Robin Fox was himself related to the great acting dynasty: the Neilson / Hanbury Family via his mother the actress Hilda Hanbury and his aunt Lily Hanbury

Lily Hanbury

Lily Hanbury was an English stage performer.Hanbury was born Lily Alcock, the daughter of Elizabeth and Matthew Alcock. Educated in London, her début was in 1888's W. S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea at the Savoy Theatre; and later she appeared on most of the leading stages of the English...

 (his father was Arthur William Fox, the son of industrialist Samson Fox

Samson Fox

Samson Fox was a British engineer, industrialist, and philanthropist.-Life and career:Samson Fox was born in Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, to Jonas and Sarah Fox , and the family moved shortly afterwards to live in nearby Leeds...

). Hilda and Lily's first cousin Julia Neilson

Julia Neilson

Julia Neilson was an English actress best known for her numerous performances as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, for her roles in many tragedies and historical romances, and for her portrayal of Rosalind in a long-running production of As You Like It.After establishing her reputation in a...

 was married to the actor Fred Terry

Fred Terry

Fred Terry was an English actor and theatrical manager. After establishing his reputation in London and in the provinces for a decade, he joined the company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree where he remained for four years, meeting his future wife, Julia Neilson...

, brother of the late nineteenth century star Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

Dame Ellen Terry, GBE was an English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Among the members of her famous family is her great nephew, John Gielgud....

. In total seven first cousins including Hilda and Lily Hanbury were all actors in the Victorian Theatre.

Family

Robin Fox (1913-1971), theatrical agent, married Angela Muriel Darita Worthington, actress, 3 sons

• Edward Fox
  Edward Fox (actor)
  Edward Charles Morice Fox, OBE is an English stage, film and television actor.He is generally associated with portraying the role of the upper-class Englishman, such as the title character in the film The Day of the Jackal and King Edward VIII in the serial Edward & Mrs...
  
   (born 1937), actor, married twice Tracy Reed, (married 1958-61), actress, 1 child

• Lucy Fox married twice

(i) David Grenfell. 1 child

• Harry Grenfell

(ii) Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston Joanna David

Joanna David

Joanna David is a British actress, best known for her television work.She was born in Lancaster, England. Her first major television role was as Elinor Dashwood in the BBC's 1971 dramatisation of Sense and Sensibility followed a year later in War and Peace, in which she played Sonya...

, actress, 2 children

• Emilia Fox
  Emilia Fox
  Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an award-winning English actress, known for her role as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama Silent Witness, having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of Amanda Burton. She also appears as Morgause in the BBC's Merlin beginning in the programme's second...
  
   (born 1974), actress, was married to actor Jared Harris
  Jared Harris
  Jared Francis Harris is a British character actor, well known for playing the obnoxious Mac McGrath in the Adam Sandler film Mr. Deeds, and for his portrayal of Lane Pryce on the AMC series Mad Men.- Personal life :...
  
    2005–2009.
• Freddie Fox
  Freddie Fox (actor)
  Frederick Samson Robert Morice "Freddie" Fox is an English actor with an early career highlight as singer Marilyn in a biopic about Boy George....
  
   (born 1989)

• James Fox
  James Fox
  James Fox, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:James Fox was born in London, England to theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actor Laurence Fox is his son. His...
  
   (born 1939), actor, married Mary Elizabeth Piper in 1973, 5 children

• Tom Fox (born 1975)
• Robin Fox (born 1976)
• Laurence Fox
  Laurence Fox
  Laurence Fox is an English actor best known for his leading role as Detective Sergeant James Hathaway in the British TV drama series Lewis...
  
   (born 1978), actor, married actress Billie Piper
  Billie Piper
  Billie Paul Piper is an English singer and actress.She began her career in the late 1990s as a pop singer and then switched to acting. She started in acting and dancing and was talent spotted at the Sylvia Young stage school by Smash Hits magazine who wanted a "face" for their magazine...
  
   in 2007, 1 child

• Winston Fox (born 2008)

• Lydia Fox (born 1979}, actress, married Richard Ayoade
  Richard Ayoade
  Richard Ellef Ayoade is a British comedian, actor, writer and director best known for his role as Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd.Ayoade was born an only child to a Norwegian mother, Dagny , and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. Ayoade studied at St...
  
   in 2007
• Jack Fox (born 1985)

• Robert Fox
  Robert Fox (producer)
  Robert Michael John Fox is an English theatre and film producer, whose work includes the 2002 film, The Hours.-Life and career:...
  
   (born 1952), theatre and film producer, married 3 times Celestia Sporborg (married 1975–90), casting director, 3 children Natasha Richardson
  Natasha Richardson
  Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...
  
   (1990-94}, actress, no children Fiona Golfar (1996 to date), editor at Vogue magazine, 2 children

Robin Fox was rumoured to be the father of Daniel Chatto

Daniel Chatto

Daniel St. George Chatto born Daniel Chatto St. George Sproule, is a British artist and former actor. He is best known as the husband of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, who is the only daughter of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and the only niece of Queen Elizabeth II .-Biography:His parents...

 (born 1957), who married Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones

Lady Sarah Chatto

The Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto, née Armstrong-Jones , is the only daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the second daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. She is 17th in line of succession to the thrones of each of the Commonwealth Realms;...

, the daughter of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI....

. Daniel Chatto's mother, Rosalind Thompson, had been Robin Fox's secretary.

External links

• Robin Fox, thepeerage.com