The Fox family is a family with several members in acting and related professions over a number of generations. Robin Fox (1913–1971), an actor and theatrical agent, and his wife Angela, neé Worthington (1912-2000), a comedienne, had three sons: the actors Edward and James, and Robert, who became a theatrical agent. Their grandchildren include the actors Emilia, Freddie, Jack, Laurence, and Lydia Fox.
Family origin
Robin Fox was born in the parish of St George Hanover Square, Westminster, the son of Hilda Louise (Alcock), an actress, and Arthur William Fox. Robin Fox was the grandson of industrialist, engineer, and philanthropist Samson Fox.
Fox was related to the Hanbury and Neilson acting dynasty through his mother, whose sister was the stage actress Lily Hanbury. Their first cousin Julia Neilson was married to the actor Fred Terry, brother of the late nineteenth-century star Ellen Terry. Altogether, five of Hilda and Lily Hanbury's first cousins were actors in Victorian and Edwardian theatre.
Angela Worthington's father was English playwright Frederick Lonsdale and her sister was Felicity Shaw, who wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Anne Morice. Noël Coward's 1935 song "Mrs. Worthington", with its refrain "Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington", was allegedly written about her and her mother, the socialite Muriel Rose "Lucy Glitters" Worthington. Angela later became a comedienne.