Jorja Fox as
Sara Sidle Born on July 7, 1968 in New York, New York, Jorja Fox grew up in Melbourne Beach, Florida, where she studied at Melbourne High School. After two years of schooling, Fox won a modeling competition and headed back to New York in order to pursue a career in acting.
In 1989, she appeared as Myra Pavlov in the drama film, The Kill-Off, and subsequently made her television debut in an ABC Afterschool Special entitled Summer Stories. From there, Fox continued work on a variety of small screen productions, including Lifestories: Families in Crisis,
Law & Order , Missing Persons, Courthouse, Alchemy, Ellen, House of Frankenstein 1997 and Partners. Fox also portrayed recurring character Dr. Maggie Doyle in the long-running drama series,
ER .
Following her stint on ER, Fox appeared on six episodes of
The West Wing as Agent Gina Toscano, and was cast in the role of Sara Sidle in the highly-watched television series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2004, she and co-star
George Eads were unexpectedly terminated from the show, only to be rehired (with no salary increase like the rest of the cast) after the conflicts were settled in less than two weeks.
Fox’s film credits include Memento, The Kill-Off, Dead Funny, The Jerky Boys, Velocity Trap, How to Make the Cruelest Month, Forever Fabulous and Next Exit. In addition to her acting achievements, Fox also co-created a Los Angeles-based independent theater company called Honeypot Productions. She is also guitar player and a budding drummer, and has tried her hand in singing and songwriting, having written the song “Lullaby,” which is part of the film’s Traveling Companion’s original soundtrack.
Fox is also a strict follower of the vegetarian diet. In one interview, she recounted the moment that she decided to become a vegetarian. She said, “I was having a meatball sub one day in Brooklyn, and it just clicked. I was in the middle of that sandwich, but I put it down—and I never ate meat again.”
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