Julia Fox is an Italian-born American actress and model who is best recognized for her breakout role in the 2019 film Uncut Gems. For her performance as Julia De Fiore in the film, she received multiple nominations, including the Gotham Awards for Breakthrough Actor. Apart from Uncut Gems, the actress has acted in several movies such as Puppet, PVT Chat, Acting for a Cause, and No Sudden Move. She recently made headlines when Fox was romantically linked with Kanye West, estranged husband of Kim Kardashian. But the duo broke up in February 2022 after dating for a month and a half. So, who is Julia Fox? Here’s everything we know about Uncut Gems star.
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Julia Fox Biography
Birth Name
Julia Fox
Nick Name
Julia
Born
February 2, 1990
Age
34 years old
Birth Place
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Birth Sign
Aquarius
Profession
Actress, Model, Filmmaker
Nationality
American
Ethnicity
She is of Italian and American descent.
Family and Education
Julia Fox was born on February 2, 1990, in Milan, Italy. Her father is American, while her mother is Italian. When she was 6 years old, she moved to New York City with her dad. They lived in Yorkville, Manhattan, and she attended City-As-School High School in the West Village. She has a younger brother and an older brother.
Education
Christianity
Religion
Residence
New York City, New York, United States
Julia Fox Love Life
Julia Fox was a married woman. Her first husband was Peter Artemiev, a private pilot based out of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. The pair got married in November 2018 and gave birth to his son Valentino on January 17, 2021. Not long after the couple welcomed their son, they parted ways and filed for divorce individually. They resided in Yorkville, Manhattan.
Then, she had a brief relationship with Canadian rapper Drake before getting romantically connected with rapper Kanye West. She made their romance public in January 2022. But things fell apart in the due course of time and they broke up in February 2022.
Body Statistics
Height
5 feet 7 inches or 170 cm
Body Build
Voluptuous
Hair Color
Dark Brown
Eye Color
Blue
Sexuality
Straight
Julia Fox Net Worth
As of 2024, Julia Fox has an estimated net worth of $30 million.
Julia Fox Facts
Julia was into modeling for a while before she got into acting. As a model, she posed for the final nude edition of Playboy in 2015.
Before acting, Julia worked as a clothing designer and launched a women’s knitwear line called Franziska Fox. She was also an art exhibit painter and photographer and hosted a gallery show, R.I.P. Julia Fox in 2017.
Julia has self-published two photography books titled Symptomatic of a Relationship Gone Sour: Heartburn/Nausea in 2015 and PTSD in 2016.
Growing up, she frequently visited nightclubs, and sometime around when she was around 17, she invested in a nightclub. A 17, she suffered a new fatal overdose, she told Rolling Stone. In the same interview, she told she ran away from home with a boyfriend who was “a drug dealer” when she was just 14 years old. She met him at a drug dealer’s house a few blocks away from her house.
She worked as a dominatrix when she was a teenager.
During her pregnancy, Fox did a series of glamorous pregnancy photo shoots and posted them on her Instagram page. She has over 1.3 million followers on her Instagram account.
Julia is an aspiring filmmaker. She wrote and directed a short film called Fantasy Girls. The film is based on a group of teenage girls involved in sex work living in Reno, Nevada.
She has been a part of ad campaigns for Coach New York and Diesel, as well as in featured editorials of Wonderland, Vogue, Paper, V, Interview, Italia, The Face, and Office.
She landed her first major film role in 2019, playing the role of Julia De Fiore in the crime thriller Uncut Gems, She starred opposite Adam Sandler, Lakeith Stanfield, and Idina Menzel in the film that earned her as many as four major award nominations, including the Gotham Awards. She was nominated in the Breakthrough Actor Award category but lost the award to Taylor Russell for Waves.
In an episode of her Forbidden Fruits podcast, Julia Fox described herself as a “diehard, OG” fan of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
She cites the late Anna Nicole Smith as her style muse.
In October 2023, she published her memoir “Down the Drain”.
She took on the role of a real estate agent in the psychological thriller film, Presence, starring Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan. The film was released in January 202