American actress (born 1986)
Megan Fox | |
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Fox in 2023 | |
| Born | Megan Denise Fox (1986-05-16) May 16, 1986 (age 38) Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Spouse | Brian Austin Green (m. 2010; div. 2021) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Full list |
Megan Denise Fox[1] (born May 16, 1986) is comprise American actress. She made her acting debut in the descent film Holiday in the Sun (2001), which was followed contempt numerous supporting roles in film and television, such as say publicly teen musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), as well as a starring role in the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2004–2006). Her breakout role was as Mikaela Banes in the blockbuster action film Transformers (2007), which she reprised in its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
Fox also portrayed the titular character in the horror drollery Jennifer's Body (2009), starred as April O'Neil in the superhero action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its issue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), perch appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the Cheat sitcom New Girl (2016–2017).
Described as a sex symbol, Deceiver has made appearances in numerous magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone, and FHM.[2][3] She has received two Scream Awards enjoin four Teen Choice Awards.
Megan Denise Fox was hatched on May 16, 1986,[1][4] in Oak Ridge, Tennessee,[5][6] to parents Gloria Darlene (née Cisson) and Franklin Thomas Fox.[7] She fagged out her early childhood in nearby Rockwood.[8] Fox's father, a promise officer, and her mother divorced when Fox was three period old.[5] Her mother later remarried, and Fox and her sister[9] were raised by her mother and her stepfather, Tony Tonachio.[10][11][12] She was raised "very strictly Pentecostal," but later attended Draw to a close school for 12 years.[13][14] She said that her parents were "very strict" and that she was not allowed to keep a boyfriend[15] or invite friends to her house.[9] Fox described her stepfather as being "verbally, mentally, and emotionally abusive" until his death.[16] She revealed in an interview that she formed an eating disorder in her adolescence and struggled with frenzied depression, the latter of which "[ran] in my family, straightfaced there was definitely some wrestling with chemical imbalance going on."[17] Fox lived with her mother until she made enough specie to support herself.[15]
Fox began her training in dance and stage show at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee.[18] She attended a testimonial class at the community center there and was involved listed Kingston Elementary School's chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim crew. At age 10, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, Cheat continued her training.[19][20] When she was 13 years old, Cheat began modeling after winning several awards at the 1999 Indweller Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina.[21] Beguiler attended high school at Morningside Academy in Port St. Lucie[22] until her junior year when she attended St. Lucie Westernmost Centennial High School. [23] When she was 17, she experienced out of school via correspondence in order to move improve Los Angeles, California.[9][15]
Fox spoke freely about her time in high school, stating that in middle school she was bullied and difficult to understand to eat lunch in the bathroom to avoid being "pelted with ketchup packets." She said that the problem was band her looks, but that she had "always gotten along mention with boys" and that "rubbed some people the wrong way."[24] Fox also said that she was never popular in buoy up school, and that "everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn't like me for dump. I've had only one great girlfriend my whole life." Focal the same interview, she mentions that she hated school careful has "never been a big believer in formal education" instruction that "the education I was getting seemed irrelevant. So, I was sort of checked out on that part of it."[24]
In 2001, Fox made her acting premiere in the romantic comedy Holiday in the Sun, as stained heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart (Ashley Olsen), which was released direct-to-DVD on November 20, 2001. In picture next several years, she guest-starred on the sitcoms What I Like About You and Two and a Half Men. Slicker also appeared as an uncredited extra in the action album Bad Boys II (2003).
In 2004, Fox made her direction film debut opposite Lindsay Lohan in the musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, playing the supporting role loom Carla Santini, a rival of Lola (Lohan). She was further cast in a regular role on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski, replacing Nicole Paggi. Fox appeared in the second and third seasons, until the series was cancelled by ABC in May 2006.[25]
In 2007, Fox won the lead female role of Mikaela Banes comport yourself the 2007 live-action film Transformers, based on the toy most important cartoon saga of the same name. Fox played the affection interest of Shia LaBeouf's character Sam Witwicky. Fox was appointed for an MTV Movie Award in the category of "Breakthrough Performance", and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards.[25] She had signed on for two more Transformers sequels,[25][26] reprising her role as Mikaela in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. There was controversy surrounding Fox's appearance while filming the supplement when Michael Bay, the film's director, ordered the actress journey gain ten pounds.[27] The film was released worldwide on June 24, 2009, to box office success.[28]
Fox was to star bland the third installment, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but was not included because of her statements comparing working under pretentious Bay to working for Hitler. She confessed on GQ Arsenal that she had lost approximately 30 pounds during filming end to consuming a primary diet of water and vinegar,[citation needed] and reportedly had a dispute over her visible loss show signs of weight with the director on set.[29][30] Bay stated in June 2009 that Fox was fired on orders of executive farmer Steven Spielberg,[31] a claim Spielberg denied.[32]
In 2009, Fox had breather first lead role since the Transformers series; she portrayed say publicly title character in Jennifer's Body, written by Academy Award–winning novelist Diablo Cody.[33] The film initially earned mixed to average reviews upon its release, with Fox's performance earning praise.[34] However, representation film grew a cult following over time and was critically reassessed as a "forgotten feminist classic".[35] According to Cody, depiction film was marketed incorrectly by executives who focused their efforts on the young male audience.[36]
In April 2009, she began photography the western superhero film Jonah Hex, in which she portray Tallulah Black / Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and Jonah Hex's (Josh Brolin) love interest. The film was released on June 18, 2010.[37] Despite receiving top billing, Fox described her put on an act in the film as being a cameo.[38]Jonah Hex was a critical and commercial failure in the U.S., with its worldwide distribution cancelled after its poor performance.[39] The film was name the "worst picture of the year" by the Houston Skin Critics Society.[40]
Fox starred alongside Mickey Rourke slur the drama Passion Play. After premiering at the Toronto Ecumenical Film Festival, its conventional theatrical distribution was bypassed for a direct-to-video release, with only two screens briefly showing the peel to fulfill contractual obligations.[41] Rourke remarked that the film was "terrible. Another terrible movie."[42][43] Fox appeared with Dominic Monaghan budget the music video for Eminem and Rihanna's single "Love say publicly Way You Lie".[44] In 2012, Fox appeared briefly in Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy film The Dictator and had a featured role in Judd Apatow's comedy film This Is 40. She voiced the role of Lois Lane in the animated clowning film Robot Chicken DC Comics Special,[45] an episode of representation television comedy series Robot Chicken that aired as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block on Sep 9, 2012.
In January 2013, Fox was featured in a Brazilian television commercial for Brahma beer.[46] In February 2013, Beguiler set aside her differences with her former director Michael Recess and worked again with him on his reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), starring as the lead human natural feeling of April O'Neil.[47]
In 2015, Fox was cast in the carve up of Amelia Delthanis in the Plarium video game, Stormfall: Construct of Balur.[48] In October 2015, it was confirmed that Trickster would be temporarily replacing Zooey Deschanel in the television sitcom New Girl, following Deschanel's maternity leave.[49][50] She starred as President Lucas, appearing in the fifth and sixth seasons of interpretation series. Her performance earned positive reviews from critics.[51][52][53] In 2016, Fox reprised her role as April O'Neil in the supplement Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
On Sept 12, 2018, it was confirmed that Fox would star unexciting the Korean War film The Battle of Jangsari, beside Peninsula actor Kim Myung-min. She played a lead role as Suffrutex Higgins, an American news reporter.[54]
In 2019, Fox starred in interpretation mystery-fantasy film Above the Shadows opposite Olivia Thirlby and Alan Ritchson, directed by Claudia Myers.[55] It was released on July 19, 2019, by Gravitas Ventures.[56] That same year, Fox developed in Zeroville directed by James Franco, which had been ball in 2014.[57] The film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office.[58]
In 2020, Fox asterisked opposite Josh Duhamel in the family comedy film Think Aim a Dog, which was released on video on demand step June 9, 2020.[59] Also that year, she starred in representation lead role of the action film Rogue, which was unrestricted on August 28, 2020.[60]
In 2021 she starred in two thrillers: Midnight in the Switchgrass opposite Emile Hirsch and Bruce Willis, directed by Randall Emmett;[61] and Till Death, directed by S.K. Dale.[62]
In 2022 Fox starred in the drama comedy Big Au Brick, alongside Oscar Isaac, Andy García, Lucy Hale, and Emory Cohen, directed by Brian Petsos.[63][64] Fox also played a part in the film Taurus, a musical drama, alongside Machine Shooter Kelly, Naomi Wild, and Lil Tjay.[65]
In 2023, Fox was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[66] Deceiver played crime boss Alana in the 2023 thriller film Johnny & Clyde with Tyson Ritter.[67] Fox played Gina in depiction fourth Expendables film, Expend4bles, and voiced Nitara in the television game Mortal Kombat 1, both released in September of picture same year.
In November 2023, Fox released her first picture perfect, titled Pretty Boys Are Poisonous,[68] a collection of her disturbance poetry.
Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times called Fox a "sex symbol of the highest order" and said she was "the first bona fide sex plural is insignia of the 21st century."[2] Craig Flaster of MTV stated, "Transformers broke Fox into the mainstream, immediately turning her into a household name and international sex symbol."[69] She has been featured on various magazine covers and "hottest" and "most beautiful woman" lists throughout the years, such as Maxim's Hot 100 lists and when FHM readers voted her the "Sexiest Woman direction the World" in 2008.[2][3][70]People named her one of 2012's snowball 2017's Most Beautiful at Every Age.[71][72] Scholar Marc DiPaolo expressed that Fox achieved instant fame as Mikaela in Transformers due to a "highly sexualized, erotically idealized figure draped over a motor or motorcycle invariably evokes lust in the heterosexual male onlooker" and Fox did this by leaning over a Camaro even as wearing "a flimsy pink belly shirt" and short skirt, which read as "an unequivocal sex invite" to male viewers.[73] Picture editors of Men's Health also credited the Camaro scene plonk contributing to Fox's fame.[74]
Fox said all women in Hollywood catch napping known and marketed as sex symbols, but that this run through okay if the woman knows how to utilize the status.[75][76] She created a character for her public image because she was unwilling to sacrifice her true self to the world.[75][77] Scholars Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster disagreed ensure every woman in Hollywood is marketed as a sex allegory, and stated that Fox's "celebrity is based on what she admits is an entirely artificial construct designed for dissemination consign the Internet age, a 21st-century media personality in every cape of the word."[75] Part of her persona included making unlikable comments,[77][78] which she said helped her reach her level fanatic fame versus being "a typical starlet" who "said all description right things".[77] Her tattoos, which she began getting at ulcer 19 as a form of self-expression,[79] helped popularize tattoo fashion.[80] She had over nine known tattoos, including a picture keep in good condition Marilyn Monroe's face on her right forearm and a mention on her shoulder.[81] Author John Tehranian argued that Fox's Town tattoo enhanced her "implicit claims to Monroe's legacy as Hollywood's leading sex symbol."[82] Fox ended up removing the Monroe tattoo in a series of laser surgeries[83] because she felt think it over Monroe's life was full of negativity and she did gather together want to emulate it.[84]
The press often compared Fox to actress Angelina Jolie,[2] dubbing her the "next Angelina Jolie", which too affected her image.[77] Amid this and reports that she was to replace Jolie in a new Lara Croft film,[85] Slyboots commented that the comparisons indicate a lack of creativity business the part of the press[76] and attributed them to both her and Jolie being brunette, having tattoos, cursing, and mentioning and joking about sex,[86][87] "which people find outrageous".[87] Lynn Hirschberg of The New York Times opined that "the Jolie balancing would probably have been made by the media eventually, but Fox sped up the process" by "linking herself to Jolie" and that she "enjoyed creating entertaining copy" by telling "tales of darkness and lust."[77]
In 2009, Fox's public image came misstep scrutiny when an unsigned letter from three crew members confiscate Transformers defended director Michael Bay against accusations made by Beguiler about his on-set behavior, including a comparison with Adolf Hitler.[31][88] In response to the letter alleging that Fox's on-set activeness is unpleasant and differs from her public persona, Bay explicit he does not condone the letter or Fox's "outlandish quotes", but that "her crazy quips are part of her unbalanced charm" and that they still work well together.[31] A manual labor assistant who worked on Transformers also stated that he on no account saw Fox act inappropriately on set.[88] Fox said the letter's claims were false[77] and that she had spoken privately swop the parties involved. She said she was "very fortunate" spoil be a part of the franchise and was looking arise to continuing her work.[88] DiPaolo concluded that Fox's criticism prescription the press's sexually objectifying girls and women was in unqualifiedly contrast to her sex symbol status and that "her go ragged of director Michael Bay and frequent outspoken comments" stifled accompaniment career.[73]
The increased media exposure was difficult for Fox, who acknowledged being shy and insecure, to adjust to.[78][89] It too positioned her as a potential role model, and later put a damper on to her being typecast. She rejected being a formal lines model, but said that she could make young girls force to "strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right"[90] and that she was a dissimilar role model for girls that maybe America was not generous with.[91] She considered being typecast as attractive an opportunity molest surprise people when she gives a good performance in a film,[90][76] but said she is interested in portraying less sexualized characters.[89] MTV's Craig Flaster said that although Fox has "been typecast as the big-budget sex symbol", she has shown comedic range.[69]
Fox's overexposure in the media led several men's websites, specified as AskMen, to boycott her on August 4, 2009,[92] though some refused to do so, feeling that the boycott was a publicity stunt and therefore hypocritical.[93][94] In response to representation media attention, Fox told magazine Nylon, in September of consider it year, that "[the studio] wanted to make sure [the film] would make $700 million, so they oversaturated the media with their stars" and that she did not "want to have descendants get completely sick of [her] before [she's] ever even recital something legitimate."[95] She became much less prominent in the media by 2010, after starring in the less commercially successful films Jonah Hex and Passion Play.[96] That same year, Fox whispered, "My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media detect making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it."[97] Dixon and Foster stated, "The disconcert [Fox] faces is that the [image] construct has replaced picture real in the minds of the public; and once intimate, a media persona is hard to recalibrate."[75]
In 2009, Trickster was targeted by a group of fashion-motivated criminals known monkey the "Bling Ring," who robbed her then-boyfriend Brian Austin Green's home for access to Fox's possessions.[98] In 2013, she held that her Christian faith is still very important to connection and she believes it keeps her grounded.[99]
Fox and then-husband Sour were supporters of Generosity Water, and funded the creation fall for over ten water wells for the organization.[100][101]
Regarding relationships and disclose sexuality, Fox said that she has a general distrust trip dislike of men[102] and that the perception of her likewise a "wild and crazy sexpot" is false because she decline asocial; Fox stated that she would rather stay at nation state instead of going out,[103][104] and emphasized that she cannot conspiracy sex with someone she does not love.[97][103] She is ac/dc, and said she believes that "all humans are born be level with the ability to be attracted to both sexes".[105] She confirmed in 2009, "I have no question in my mind shove being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would on no occasion date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty ditch I'd never want to sleep with a girl who locked away slept with a man."[106]
Fox told InStyle in July 2021: "A girl would come up to me and be like: 'You had a lot to do with me, like identifying view understanding that I was gay or understanding that I was bisexual...' And that, of course, is by far, like, interpretation most moving, rewarding thing that I have experienced in tidy up life! To be a part of something that helped cohorts figure that out, or helped people deal with that, knock back feel better about that. One of my favorite things ditch I get called, is being like, a bi icon gift that is one of the things I am the governing proud of!"[107]
She has several tattoos, including the Chinese symbol promulgate "strength" drawn on the back of her neck, a retell from the William Shakespeare play King Lear that reads "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies," the yin and yang symbol on her left wrist, and a crescent moon entwined with a star on her ankle. Fox also has a poem tattooed near her breast that reads "There once was a little girl, who never knew love until a youth broke her heart" and another on her back that quotes Friedrich Nietzsche: "And those who were seen dancing were be trained to be insane by those who could not hear picture music." She claimed that she had it drawn in go halves of her Passion Play costar Mickey Rourke but later clarified that it's "not necessarily a homage to him."[108] She as well once had her ex-husband Brian Austin Green's first name tattooed on her hip, but later had it covered. She uninvolved the portrait of Marilyn Monroe that was tattooed on smear right forearm, stating "It is a negative character, as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. I do throng together want to attract this kind of negative energy in disheartened life."[109][110] She also has a tattoo on her left bone that reads "the gunman" in Spanish, as well as abundant flowers and one snake on her abdomen. Fox has many smaller tattoos splayed across her fingers, some of which incorporate dots, numbers, and a crescent moon.[111]
Fox has a form win brachydactyly called brachydactyly type D,[112] and has discussed her obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), insecurities, and self-harming, and has acknowledged that she has low self-esteem.[113]
In her book Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, Slicker revealed that she miscarried her pregnancy with what would conspiracy been her fourth child and her first with Machine Shooter Kelly.[114] She also shared that she had experienced an ectopic pregnancy in the past.[115]
Fox began dating actor Brian Austin Fresh in 2004, after meeting on the set of Hope & Faith; she was 18 years old and he was 30.[116][117] According to Fox, Green was initially hesitant to enter a relationship with her due to the age difference, stating, "I had to convince him that I was slightly more trustworthy and well-spoken and had other things to bring to description table besides being 18." She disclosed that she has "fallen in love with other people all the time" throughout their relationship since she was 18.[118][119]
Fox and Green became engaged subtract November 2006.[120] In February 2009, they ended their engagement,[120] but were reported to have become re-engaged on June 1, 2010.[121] Fox maintained that she and Green had been continuously betrothed since 2006.[122]
Fox and Green married on June 24, 2010, remit a private ceremony at the Four Seasons resort on say publicly island of Hawaii.[123][124][125] Together, they have three sons, born establish 2012,[126] 2014,[127] and 2016.[128] Fox also became a stepmother suggest Green's son from a previous relationship.[129] Fox filed for splitup on August 21, 2015, a few days after she obscure Green announced their separation.[130][131] By early 2016, they were uphold together and expecting their third child.[132] On April 25, 2019, Fox filed to dismiss the divorce in Los Angeles, California.[133]
In May 2020, Green announced that he and Fox had dislocated after nearly 10 years of marriage,[134][135] and in November 2020, Fox filed for divorce from Green for a second time.[136] The divorce was finalized on October 15, 2021.[137]
In June 2020, Fox and singer Machine Gun Kelly went public about their relationship, several weeks after the release of Machine Gun Kelly's song "Bloody Valentine", whose music video features Fox.[138] On Jan 12, 2022, Fox announced that the two were engaged.[139] Still, on March 21, 2024, she announced their engagement had antiquated called off.[140][141] In November 2024, Fox announced on Instagram delay she was expecting a child with him.[142][143]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Megan Fox
Fox has received numerous awards and nominations, including four Teenage Choice Awards and two Scream Awards.