- Born
- Nickname
- Foxy
- Height1.88 m
- Matthew Chandler Fox was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. His mother, Loretta B. (Eagono), was a schoolteacher, and his father, Francis G. Fox, was a consultant for an oil company, who raised longhorn cattle and horses and grew barley for Coors beer. He has Italian (from his maternal grandfather), English, and Irish ancestry. Matthew entered the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts for a post-grad year after high school, and then matriculated at Columbia University where he played football and majored in Economics with the intent to end up on Wall Street. However, his girlfriend's mother was a modeling agent who convinced him to try some modeling which led to a couple of TV commercials. Soon after he was sold on acting.
He made his debut on an episode of _"Wings"(1990)_ in 1992. From 1994 to 2000 he played the role of Charlie Salinger in La vie à cinq (1994) alongside Neve Campbell and Scott Wolf. From 2004 to 2010 he starred on the popular TV-Show Lost : Les Disparus (2004). During this time he appeared in movies such as We Are Marshall (2006), Angles d'attaque (2008) and Speed Racer (2008).
He has been married to his wife Margherita since 1992 and they 2 children together, a daughter and a son.- IMDb mini biography by: John Sacksteder <jsack@ka.net>
- SpouseMargherita Ronchi(August 1, 1992 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenByron FoxKyle Fox
- ParentsLoretta B. EagonoFrancia G. Fox
- RelativesFrancis Fox Jr(Sibling)Bayard Fox(Sibling)
- Short black hair
- He is a private pilot and owns a Beechcraft Bonanza G36 aircraft.
- He frequently hosts parties at his house where the whole cast of Lost : Les Disparus (2004) gathers to watch the last episode they had filmed.
- He and his family currently reside on Oahu, Hawaii, where Lost : Les Disparus (2004) is shot.
- Was sentenced to a court-ordered alcohol treatment program after pleading no-contest to a Oregon DUI charge, thus avoiding jail time [June 4, 2012].
- Is good friends with Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong.
- "It's sort of a show about the human species, not a show about anybody from any particular country or any nationality or any religious background." - on why he thinks Lost : Les Disparus (2004) is internationally successful.
- What we as a cast went through that first season mirrored what you saw on screen: people with no preexisting history, thrown together on an island; becoming a tight-knit bunch in the course of trying to make sense of this weird world. Then, to have these other characters come in
- it's added an interesting new energy both to the show and our
- Lost : Les Disparus (2005) - $36,000
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