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1964 –
Vivica A. Fox (born 1964): the second flagged name, entered here whole as her holding entry; the Producers section carries her producing record, and assembly decides her final home. Vivica Anjanetta Fox was born in South Bend on 30 July 1964. The standard biography — the Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television entry — has the family relocate to the Indianapolis area soon after her birth, and her raising belongs to Indianapolis; her tie to this city is her birth, and it is printed at exactly that strength, neither enlarged nor apologized for. She began as a dancer on Soul Train in 1982–83 and worked the daytime serials — Days of Our Lives (1988), Generations (1989–91) — before the breakthrough year, 1996, put her in two hits at once: Independence Day, as Jasmine Dubrow opposite Will Smith, and Set It Off, as Frankie Sutton. Soul Food (1997), as Maxine, brought an NAACP Image Award nomination; Quentin Tarantino cast her as Vernita Green in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). The second career, producing — co-starring in and co-executive-producing 1-800-Missing for Lifetime (2004–06), then starring in and executive-producing the network's long-running Wrong franchise from 2016 — stands whole in the Producers section and is cross-referenced, not repeated. A living person; the entry states the public record.
Sources:
- Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television biography, via filmreference.com — the full name, the South Bend birth of 30 July 1964, the Indianapolis raising, the selected filmography (Independence Day and Set It Off, 1996; Soul Food, 1997; Kill Bill, 2003).
- Contemporary Authors / Encyclopedia.com biography — the youngest-of-four birth account, the 1996 breakthrough in both films, the Soul Food role, the Kill Bill casting.
- Producers section of this history (banked) — 1-800-Missing whole and the Wrong franchise whole, including her own 2020 account of casting herself as producer.