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's production '' Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985).

Life and career

Cox was born in

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, and is the son of Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his first wife, actress Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and two half brothers Orson Jonathan Cox and Torin Kamran Cox. Cox portrayed the young

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the 1982 TV adaptation of his play '' A Voyage Round My Father'', starring opposite

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. He is probably most widely known for his role in '' Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr. Watson. Other films include ''

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'' (1995), '' Mrs. Dalloway'' (1997), and ''The Auteur Theory'' (1999). In 2011, Cox also co-starred as a nudist named Cory Beck in the independent comedy ''Act Naturally''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 381.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Alan 1970 births English male child actors English male television actors Living people English people of Irish descent English people of Scottish descent Male actors from London People from Westminster English male film actors People educated at St Paul's School, London 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors