Crazy like a Fox: Laurence, James, and the history of a very un-PC acting dynasty – Telegraph.co.uk

Its been a busy, PC-baiting week for Laurence Fox. The actor and,ahem, singer has kept himself in the news with his crusade against woke culture. On Question Time last week, he told an audience member race and ethnicity researcher and woman of colour Rachel Boyle what is and isnt racist; then he boasted that he doesnt date woke women, enjoys drinking leftist tears, and called out black and working class actors for complaining about the industry once they're successful.

Laurence best known for playing DS Hathaway in Inspector Lewis also criticised the casting of a Sikh actor in movie 1917 as forced diversity, apparently unaware that 140,000 people from the Indian subcontinent served in the First World War.

But, as a member of the Fox Acting Dynasty including legendary agent Robin, his sons Edward, James, Robert, and next generation actors Emilia, Freddie, and Jack Laurence is hardly an anomaly. In fact, he comes from a long line of entertainingly outspoken and divisive eccentrics.

The Fox dynasty began with Laurences grandfather,Robin Fox, a dashingly formidable theatrical agent and impresario (Robin was himself the grandson of a hugely successful man Samson Fox, an industrialist and philanthropist and it was revealed on the Emilia Fox episode of Who Do You Think You Are? that Robins mother, Hilda Hanbury, great grandmother to Emilia and Laurence, was a stage performer).

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