Christina Cox



Christina Cox (born July 31, 1971) is a Canadian movie and television actress and stuntwoman.



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[edit] == Christina Cox was born in a town on the outskirts of Toronto, the youngest of three daughters.[1]  She has two older sisters, named Tracey and Melissa.[2]  Her father is an automotive executive.[3]
 * 2 Career
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 Filmography
 * 5 Awards
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

Christina studied theatre and dance at the Arts York at Unionville High School,[1]  and continued her theatre training at the Ryerson Theatre School of Toronto,[1]  where she studied for two years.[4]

Cox actively competed in the areas of gymnastics, track and field, and taekwondo while in school.[1]  She is also proficient in boxing, muay Thai kickboxing, and fencing, and has had training in stage combat, period weaponry, and firearms.[1]  During high school, she had aspirations of becoming an Olympic gymnast, but instead chose to focus on drama and theater.[4] ==Career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She has over 38 movie and television appearances to her credit. Her best-known movie credits include the 1999 Canadian movie Better Than Chocolate, and the movieThe Chronicles of Riddick. She received a Gemini Award nomination for her performance as Angela Ramírez in F/X: The Series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  Cox was an original member of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends, cast as Lynn, for the pilot episode.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Furthermore, Christina Cox has appeared in numerous national theater productions, including Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Jim Cartwright's Road.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imdb_6-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She is also a trained stuntwoman. She performed boxing stunt work for Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cox's first role as a main character in a television series was that of Vicki Nelson in Blood Ties, a supernatural detective series based on the novels by Tanya Huff.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-content_7-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  Ironically, Tanya Huff later shared: "Back when Christina Cox was doing F/X: The Series, I used to point at the screen and announce, 'When she's a little older, she'd be brilliant as Vicki!"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-content_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She starred as astronaut-biologist Jen Crane in ABC's 2009 summer show Defying Gravity. Cox also appeared in an episode of Showtime's series Dexter, as police officer Zoey Kruger. She recently joined the cast of the 2011 ABC summer drama Combat Hospital (aka The Hot Zone), alongside Elias Koteas and Deborah Kara Unger. ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cox currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her husband Grant Mattos, who is a former NFL wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers. He appeared in the 2011 season of the CBS series Survivor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] == ==Awards<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] ==