Ellen Fox is an American

United States

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 TV presenter, journalist

Journalist

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 and comedienne. She is known for co-presenting The Rotten Tomatoes Show

Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...

 on Current TV

Current TV

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Biography

Fox was born in Princeton Junction, New Jersey

Princeton Junction, New Jersey

Princeton Junction is also a New Jersey Transit and Amtrak station on the Northeast Corridor line.Princeton Junction is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within West Windsor Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey...

 and she majored in English at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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. She then moved to Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 where she wrote about entertainment for various newspapers in the city, including the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

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. Fox also took part in the city's improvisational comedy circuit.

She acted in an independent horror film called Stump the Band, in which she played a roadie stalked by a man who intends to cut off her feet

In 2009 Fox began co-hosting The Rotten Tomatoes Show

Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...

 on Current with Brett Erlich

Brett Erlich

Brett Erlich was a writer, producer, and host of infoMania, a comedic news show on the cable station Current TV, created by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart creator Madeline Smithberg and executive produced by David Nickoll...

. The show in its half-hour slot was canceled in September 2010 but continued as a segment in InfoMania

Infomania

Infomania is the debilitating state of information overload, caused by the combination of a backlog of information to process , and continuous interruptions from technologies like phones, instant messaging, and e-mail...

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She presented on the Sundance Channel in 2011, covering the 2011 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

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As of 31 October 2011, she began presenting on CW

The CW Television Network

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's early morning show, EyeOpener TV broadcast for Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Miami and Portland.

Personal

Fox claims her parents got her interested in movies. Her favorite is Xanadu

Xanadu (film)

Xanadu is a 1980 romantic musical fantasy film written by Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is quoted in the film. Xanadu is the name of the Chinese province...

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She currently lives in Dallas.

External links

• Ellen Fox on Twitter
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• Ellen Fox on IMDb
• Ellen Fox's Rotten Tomatoes
  Rotten Tomatoes
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   profile
• Ellen Fox's Current TV
  Current TV
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  profile, featuring clips from The Rotten Tomatoes Show