Emily Cox
Known for: Acting
Born: February 23, 1985
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
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.
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Filmography
32 movies · 23 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Der Thüringenkrimi - Gerechtigkeit
2026
6.7
The Physician II
2025
7.6
Murder Mindfully
2024
7.0
Constellation
2024
5.3
Unschuldig - Der Fall Julia B.
2023
4.2
Unsichtbarer Angreifer
2023
6.5
37 Sekunden
2023
4.8
Alma and Oskar
2023
5.0
Kleine Eheverbrechen
2023
7.2
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
2023
6.9
Steirerstern
2022
6.3
The Salvation Of The World As We Know It
2021
2.0
Hartwig Seeler – Ein neues Leben
2021
NR
Blind ermittelt: Zerstörte Träume
2020
8.5
Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause
2020
4.0
Danowski - Blutapfel
2019
5.8
The Accidental Rebel
2019
6.4
Head Full of Honey
2018
5.4
Wuff
2018
5.4
What Have We Done to Deserve This?
2018
6.5
Nichts zu verlieren
2018
6.0
Labaule & Erben
2018
7.9
jerks.
2017
3.0
Jesus Cries
2015
8.3
The Last Kingdom
2015
7.6
Wer weiß denn sowas?
2015
6.7
Shades of Guilt
2015
5.8
Die Freischwimmerin
2014
4.5
Zorn
2014
6.5
Futuro Beach
2014
NR
Paul Kemp - Alles kein Problem
2013
5.0
CopStories
2013
3.3
Stille
2013
4.6
The Dead and the Living
2012
NR
A Royal Affair
2012
6.3
Born to Dance
2011
7.6
Homeland
2011
6.9
How to Live Your Life
2011
5.1
The Fatherless
2011NR
Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein
2011
5.9
Rammbock: Berlin Undead
2010
NR
Der Täter
2010
3.3
Killerjagd - Schrei wenn du dich traust
2010
6.6
SOKO Stuttgart
20098.0
Dutschke
2009
4.1
Schnell ermittelt
2009
5.1
Vienna Crime Squad
20057.0
ZIBB
2003
5.8
Kommissarin Lucas
2003
4.6
Murder in the Mountains
2001
6.2
SOKO Leipzig
2001
5.7
A Case For Two
1981
6.3
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970
NR
The Vicar's Wife
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