Julia Fox was born in Milan, Italy, to an Italian mother and an American father. Fox spent her early years living with her grandfather.At the age of six, Julia Fox moved to New York City with her father and lived in Yorkville, Manhattan. Julia Fox worked several service jobs, including at a shoe store, an ice cream shop, and a pastry shop. Julia Fox attended City-As-School High School and worked as a dominatrix for six months.
Prior to her role in Uncut Gems, Julia Fox was a clothing designer and launched a successful women’s knitwear luxe line, Franziska FoxJulia Fox also worked as a model, posing for the last nude edition of Playboy in 2015. Julia Fox self-published two books of photography, Symptomatic of a Relationship Gone Sour: Heartburn/Nausea, published in 2015, andPTSD, published in 2016.
Julia Fox made her feature film debut in the 2019 Safdie brothers film Uncut Gems, playing a showroom saleswoman and mistress of the film’s protagonist Howard Ratner (played by Adam Sandler), an erratic jewelry dealer and gambling addict.
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Julia Fox also wrote and directed Fantasy Girls, a short film about a group of teenage girls involved in sex work living in Reno, Nevada. Julia Fox married PeterArtemiev, a private pilot based out of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in November 2018, and later separated from him.
In January 2022, Julia Fox confirmed that she was dating rapper Kanye West in an article she wrote for Interview.