Actor
Emily Cox
February 23, 1985 · 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Alexander Dreymon
2 titles together
The Last Kingdom, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
Arnas Fedaravičius
2 titles together
The Last Kingdom, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
Mark Rowley
2 titles together
The Last Kingdom, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
James Northcote
2 titles together
The Last Kingdom, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
Cavan Clerkin
2 titles together
The Last Kingdom, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
Til Schweiger
2 titles together
Head Full of Honey, The Salvation Of The World As We Know It
Full filmography · 50
The Vicar's Wife
as Deirdre Lawless
UpcomingDer Thüringenkrimi - Gerechtigkeit
as Mala Murphy
2026
The Physician II
as Mercia
20256.7
Unschuldig - Der Fall Julia B.
as Julia Brandt
2023
Unsichtbarer Angreifer
as Emma Turgut
2023
Alma and Oskar
as Alma Mahler
2023
Kleine Eheverbrechen
as Lisa Sobiri
2023
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
as Brida
20237.2
Steirerstern
as Jana Skoff
2022
The Salvation Of The World As We Know It
as Katharina
20216.3
Hartwig Seeler – Ein neues Leben
as Tascha
2021
Blind ermittelt: Zerstörte Träume
as Therese Maxeiner
2020