Virginia Fox

Career overview

Virginia Fox was an American actress whose career spanned fourteen years during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on April 19, 1902, to parents Marie and Frederick Fox, she began her professional journey after a chance visit to the studio of Mack Sennett while on vacation from boarding school. Upon visiting the studio in Los Angeles with a friend, she was hired immediately and began appearing in films as one of the studio's bathing beauties.

Throughout her acting career, Fox accumulated eighteen known credits. She is perhaps best recognized for her work as a leading lady in several early films starring Buster Keaton, including the 1920 production Neighbors. Her filmography also includes roles in The Haunted House, released in 1921, The Goat, also from 1921, and Itching Palms, released in 1923. In 1924, she married film producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with whom she had three children: Darrylin, Susan Marie, and Richard Darryl. Fox passed away on October 14, 1982, in Palm Springs, California, at the age of eighty. While her grave site lists Charleston, West Virginia, as her place of birth, records indicate she was born in Wheeling.