Biography: Garret Nicholas Fox, III was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and raised in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He is the only son of mining magnate Garret Nicholas Fox, Jr. and Margaret Sergeant, a Charleston, SC socialite. He is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor as well as having a controlling stock interest in Vulpis Enterprises, a oil, mining and heavy industry corporation with headquarters in New York and offices in Boston, London and Tokyo. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films use nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. Fox has one sister, Jillian, who is eight years younger than him and is President of Vulpis Enterprises. He attended the prestigious Boston Latin School in Boston, MA. He met his long time collaborators and eventual production company partners Kevin Allen, Peter Yates and Bryan Silver at Boston Latin. They started producing short 10 to 15 minute videos on their own, without the benefit of a program supporting them. The quartet applied to and were accepted into New York University's film major program based on their extensive independent work. Formed Vixen Films in 1984 with Allen, Yates and Silver. Won the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, the Oscar and the BAFTA for Screenwriting in 1995 for Pulp Fiction. He is the writer and director of Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof and Inglourious Basterds. He had a recurring role in the TV show Alias and directed the season seven finale of CSI. (More Detailed Bio)

Favorite:
Color: Maroon
Car: BMW M6, any kind of convertible
Drinks: Coffee, Coke, Crown Royal, Macallan single malt scotch
Films: Full Metal Jacket, Shane, Vertigo, Rear Window, Star Wars, Gods and Monsters, The Crow, Donnie Darko, The Poseidon Adventure, The Accidental Tourist, And The Band Played On, Spider-man, Evil Dead, Silence of the Lambs, Schnidler's List, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Far North, The Quick and the Dead, Paris Texas, M*A*S*H*, Gosford Park, Chinatown, 2001, Gorky Park, Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona, Everest, every spaghetti Western ever filmed, Shaft, the Hands of Fate, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Foxy Brown, Lady Snowblood, Akira, Ran, The Piano, The Host--really there's too many to count
TV Shows: 24, The Deadliest Catch, Numb3rs, Heroes, Coronation Street (shut up), Regis & Kelly (no, really, shut up), AC360, CSI, CSI: New York, Alias, All-American Girl, ER
Bands: The Who, Bush, Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys, VAST, Sodom & Gomorrah, Moby, Blondie, The Police, Duran Duran, Eurthymics, Wolfmother, The Clash, The Ramones, Violent Femmes, Joydrop, the Black Crowes, Sly and the Family Stone, Grand Funkadelic-Parliament, George Clinton, Rick James, P-Funk All-Stars, James Brown, Black-eyed Peas, Seventies Funk, Chic, Sugar Hill Gang, disco music, Fonda, Ennio Morricone, David Bowie, RZA, movie soundtracks
Music Era: 70's & early 80's
Clothes: Jeans, t-shirt, sneakers
Candy: Snickers, chocolate covered pretzels, Junior Mints
Meal: Kelley's Roast Beef with fries and a Coke, Nachos, In and Out Burgers, Ribs, any kind of Surf & Turf, seafood, sushi
Places to visit: Italy, Tokyo, Sydney, Texas, New York, Barcelona, Vegas, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Cannes, Perth, Wellington, Morocco, Tanzania, Bucharest

FACTS
Garret's favorite hobby is travel. He's been to 30 countries on all six inhabited continents. He doesn't speak any other language than English fluently, but knows enough French, Spanish and Italian to get him by.
still tells people he is from Hyannis Port, even though he has lived in Los Angeles since 1992. His mother lives in the family mansion in Hyannis Port
has 2 scars on his right side, one from a crash he took on a bike when he was 14 and the other from an appedectomy when he was 23
made his first 'film' when he was 12. It was a video diary of a visit to Paris made with his father and sister. It was Jillian's first trip outside the US.
is a lifelong NY Knicks fan. His father was a Knicks fan and Gar's never rooted for anyone else. He loves to play basketball.
'Fox' is an Anglo-Irish name; the family emigrated to the United States in the mid-1840s.
has a chronic lead foot. Gar likes fast cars and driving faster
is allergic to Nutrasweet. He gets hives every time he drinks a diet soda
swims about 60 laps a day when he can
has been linked with many different women in the business over the years, but has never married and has no children. Is is known for not generally dating women much younger than himself. That doesn't mean he won't flirt with them
cannot stand what he calls 'polite insincerity'. Very much likes to get to the point of a discussion, and doesn't like being around people who are overly polite, yet he feels are disingenuous
loves girl bands and female-fronted rock bands.
does most of his editing work out in a state-of-the-art facility located on his Mulholland Drive property. This includes vintage film splicing machines, though he began working with digital media in 2004 and is AVID-certified
considers France his creative birthplace and makes a point of attending as the Cannes Film Festivals as many years as he can. In 2004, he was President of the Jury, something he lists as his greatest honor, even more important than winning an Oscar. Every movie he has released since Pulp Fiction, except Kill Bill Part 2 has shown in some form at Cannes, either in or out of competition.

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