Christina Cox

Christina Cox
Christina Cox, West Hollywood, California on April 2, 2013
Born	(1971-07-31) July 31, 1971 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Spouse(s)	Grant Mattos (2011–present)
Children	1

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

Early life

Christina Cox was born in a town on the outskirts of Toronto, the youngest of three daughters. She is Canadian of Caribbean (Jamaican) descent.^[1] She has two older sisters, named Tracey and Melissa.^[2] Her father is an automotive executive.^[3]

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

Cox actively competed in the areas of gymnastics, track and field, and taekwondo while in school. She is also proficient in boxing, muay Thai kickboxing, and fencing, and has had training in stage combat, period weaponry, and firearms. During high school, she had aspirations of becoming an Olympic gymnast, but instead chose to focus on drama and theater.^[4]

Career

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 movie The Chronicles of Riddick. She received a Gemini Award nomination for her performance as Angela Ramírez in F/X: The Series.^[5] Cox was an original member of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends, cast as Lynn, for the pilot episode.

Furthermore, Christina Cox has appeared in numerous national theater productions, including Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Jim Cartwright's Road.^[6]

She is also a trained stuntwoman. She performed boxing stunt work for Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.

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.^[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!"^[7]

She starred as astronaut-biologist Jen Crane in ABC's 2009 summer show Defying Gravity. Cox also appeared in a Season Four episode of Showtime's series Dexter, playing villainous police officer Zoey Kruger. She was in the cast of the 2011 ABC summer drama Combat Hospital (aka The Hot Zone), alongside Elias Koteas and Deborah Kara Unger.

Personal life

Cox currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her husband Grant Mattos, who is a former NFL wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers. They were married by eloping on October 1, 2010, soon after his return from Survivor. ^[8] They have a daughter named Flynn, who was born on December 30, 2013. In 2011 Mattos also appeared on the 22nd season Survivor: Redemption Island of the CBS series Survivor,^[9] where he placed 8th, but falling just short of winning after getting voted out a few days before Final Tribal Council as the games biggest jury threat.

Christina and Grant now live in New York City where she continues her career as an actress, and he is a Yoga instructor at Moda Yoga NYC. They had moved to Toronto at the end of April 2015, before trasitioning to New York City at the beginning of September 2015. Christina imparticular still travels to Toronto and Vancouver for numerous acting gigs however. They may be moving back to Toronto or Canada due to Grant being fired from his job at Moda Yoga NYC, and their uncertainty if they have the finances to remain in New York City, particularly with Christina's failure to get the number of offers in the U.S market as the Canadian one.

Filmography

Awards

References

External links

• Christina Cox at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Christina Cox Website
• (French) Le premier blog français, depuis 2006
• (French) Le premier site en Français