Phoebe Fox photographed by Natasha Pszenicki, assisted by Monty Vann, HMU Justine Jenkins
(Picture: PHOTOGRAPHY NATASHA PSZENICKI)This year, more than a decade into a career that includes a string of acclaimed performances from BBC drama to Broadway, Phoebe Fox has decided to take up singing lessons. “I am quite literally finding my voice and it is so f**ing empowering,” she says. “Maybe I want to do a musical, this is where my head’s at. I can feel it itching inside me. I want to sing and dance.”
But before she has a chance to test her musical credentials for the first time professionally, audiences can see Fox in a more familiar role in The Great, starring alongside Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. This darkly comic take on the rule of Catherine the Great, which returns to Channel 4 for its second season next week, “defies categorisation,” Fox says. “People... feel they haven’t seen this before. It’s redefining period drama.”
