Where is Vivica Fox?

Maybe I’m asking the wrong question. Perhaps the best question would be, “What Happened to Vivica Fox’s Career?”.

After starring in the 1996 motion picture Independence Day with Will Smith, I thought Vivica Fox’s career would take off. After all, the film won an Oscar and did more than well at the box office. But since then, her career has seemed to plummet. It appears her roles have gotten smaller, and/or the quality of the films she has appeared in has diminished except for an upswing here and there.

And then I opened up this month’s issue of Upscale magazine and part of the way in, I noticed an advertisement for the stage play A Stranger in My House starring none other than Ms. Fox. Now, I don’t want to recapitulate the whole low culture versus high culture argument here, nor do I want to denigrate the artistry and cultural value of these plays, but I know one thing for sure. When an artist begins traveling with these shows, that’s usually a sure signal their career is headed downhill fast.

Nevertheless, however small her roles may have become or the quality of films diminished, she has managed to keep herself quitewho busy. Since 1996, she has quite a number of movie, television, and voice-over credits to her name. Perhaps you caught her on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. When she and her television family joined the cast, the comedy on the show went to a whole new level. In addition, she has done some producing, most notably the 2005 film Getting Played.

At the present, Vivica has no less than seven films in post-production and two projects in development. Her next move to hit theaters is the psychological-horror-thriller flick Junkyard Dog involving a cannibalistic serial rapist. The trailer for Junkyard Dog can be seen below.

And let's not forget Vivica's new reality series on TV Land, The Cougar, about a forty year women set up in a house with twenty younger men, all vying for her attention.

But of course, Vivica’s journey has not been without some bumps in the road. Everyone perhaps knows of her romance with rapper and business mogul 50 cent, and her little brush with the law for driving under the influence was well publicized, but did you know Vivica had her own sex tape circulating in the blogosphere not too long ago? On a hunch I did a boolean search for Vivica Fox and Playboy and that popped up. Why am I always the last to find out these things?

You know, I still consider Vivica one of the sexiest and most beautiful actresses out there. Her beauty seems timeless; she never appears to age, but looks better year after year. But in retrospect after seeing Independence Day, I perhaps over-estimated her potential. After looking back at her roles over the years, I realize she always plays numerous versions of the same character—the sista girl. She has played the sista girl hoochie mama (Bootycall), the sista’ girl wife (Soulfood), the sista’ girl business woman, (Cover), and the list goes on and on. I’m not sure if she is typecast or this is the full range of her talent.

see also: www.vivicafox.com

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