Emily Cox
Known For
Acting
Born
1985-02-23 in Vienna, Austria
Biography
Cox was born to a British father and an Irish mother in Vienna. Her parents later divorced. Both of them are pianists, who originally came to Vienna on a grant for musicians. Cox grew up in Vienna and graduated from high school in 2003. She developed an interest in acting after performing in a play as part of her English classes during her final year in high school. After her graduation she went on to study acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. In 2008 she was under contract as a stage actor at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. In 2011 Cox moved to Berlin and since then she has appeared in various movies and series on German and Austrian TV, among them several Tatort movies. Since 2015 she plays the role of the viking woman Brida in the TV series The Last Kingdom, which made her known to international audiences.
Most Known For
Homeland
as Claudia
Scene of the Crime
as Miranda Kador
Scene of the Crime
as Roswita Mader
Scene of the Crime
as Sybille Wildering
The Last Kingdom
as Brida
ZIBB
as Self
Polizeiruf 110
as Heike
SOKO Kitzbühel
as Gina Prinz
SOKO Leipzig
as Hannah Falck
Vienna Crime Squad
as Judith Stoll
A Case For Two
as Edith Egger
SOKO Stuttgart
as Lucie Thieme
Constellation
as Sara Schiller
Wer weiß denn sowas?
as Self
Murder Mindfully
as Katharina Diemel
jerks.
as Self
Schnell ermittelt
as Diana Weininger
The Physician II
as Mercia
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
as Brida
Shades of Guilt
as Ulrike Gronau