Vivica A. Fox: producer of the Wrong films

Born South Bend, 30 July 1964 — co-executive producer, then a franchise of her own

Born here, raised downstate: Vivica Anjanetta Fox was born in South Bend on 30 July 1964, the daughter of a pharmaceutical technician and a private-school administrator; her parents relocated to the Indianapolis area soon after her birth, and the raising — and the acting start that followed from it — belong to Indianapolis and then Los Angeles. The tie stated exactly is a birth. The acting fame is the Famous People chapter's ground; the producing record is this chapter's, and it is a working producer's, not a vanity credit. From 2004 to 2006 she co-starred in and co-executive produced the Lifetime crime drama 1-800-Missing — thirty-seven episodes as FBI Agent Nicole Scott, with the producer's credit carried alongside the starring role — and her biographies carry the plain summary that she "has also produced a number of straight-to-video films."

From 2016 the producing became a franchise. Fox stars in and executive-produces Lifetime's Wrong films — The Wrong Roommate and its successors, directed by David DeCoteau and made by Hybrid — thrillers built around her characters, produced at a pace of five or six a year by her own account. The Wrong Valentine, premiered 11 February 2021, was the twenty-fifth film of the series. Her own account of the arrangement, given in 2020, is the producer's account and not the star's: "I produce them as well as star in them, so I get an opportunity to play roles that maybe I wouldn't be cast in. So I get to cast myself as a producer" — the executive producer's say extending, as she described it, to every aspect of the films from start to finish. A South Bend birth certificate stands at the head of one of cable television's most durable one-woman production lines; the record prints the tie at its size and the work at its size, and they are different sizes.

Sources:

1. Biographical record of Vivica A. Fox — born 30 July 1964 in South Bend, Indiana; parents' relocation to the Indianapolis area soon after; "co-starred in and produced the Lifetime crime drama series Missing"; produced a number of straight-to-video films; the 1-800-Missing credit table: series regular, 37 episodes, "also co-executive producer" (2004–06).
2. PopCulture, 15 July 2020 — Fox as star and executive producer of the Wrong franchise; director David DeCoteau; five to six films a year for Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime; the quoted account of producing and casting herself.
3. Lifetime franchise coverage (2021) — The Wrong Valentine the twenty-fifth film of the franchise, "produced by Hybrid and executive produced and starring Fox"; the series running since 2016.