Vivica A. Fox is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on July 30, 1964 in South Bend, Indiana, United States. Model and actress who played Will Smith‘s girlfriend in Independence Day. She also appeared in Kill Bill, Sharknado 2: The Second One and Booty Call.
She starred alongside Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2007.
Fox was born in South Bend, Indiana, the daughter of Everlyena, a pharmaceutical technician, and William Fox, a private school administrator. In interviews she has mentioned having African American and Native American ancestry. Her parents relocated to the Benton Harbor, Michigan, area soon after her birth. Fox is a 1982 graduate of Arlington High School in Indianapolis and Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California, with an AA degree in Social Sciences.
In 1988, Fox relocated to California in order to attend Golden West College. While in California she started acting professionally, first on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives in 1988 playing Carmen Silva. After making her debut as a hooker in Oliver Stone’s war drama film Born on the Fourth of July (1989), she was cast as Emily Franklin in the pilot episode of ABC comedy series, Living Dolls, a spin-off of the sitcom Who’s the Boss? but was replaced with Halle Berry for the remaining episodes. Later that year, Fox was cast as Maya Reubens, the leading character in the NBC daytime soap opera Generations. The series broke new ground as the first soap opera to feature from its inception an African-American family.
She was married to Christopher Harvest from 1998 to 2002.