Emilia Fox was born in [[Hammersmith]], London.<ref name=dob>{{cite web|title=Emilia Fox: A long line of theatrical ancestors...|url=http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/emilia-fox-65/|publisher=The Genealogist|access-date=19 December 2017|date=20 September 2011|archive-date=28 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428075526/https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/emilia-fox-65/|url-status=live}}</ref> She comes from a [[Actor|thespian]] family — her mother is actress [[Joanna David]] (née Joanna Elizabeth Hacking) and her father is actor [[Edward Fox (actor)|Edward Fox]]; her uncle [[James Fox]] and her cousins [[Jack Fox (actor)|Jack]], [[Laurence Fox|Laurence]] and Lydia are also actors.<ref>The Observer Review, p.2, 1 February 2009</ref> She has a brother, [[Freddie Fox (actor)|Freddie]] (also an actor), and a half-sister, Lucy.<ref name=TFD/> She was educated at the independent [[Bryanston School]] near [[Blandford Forum]], [[Dorset]], where she played the cello, and at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], where she readstudied English.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/16/highereducation.careers|location=London|work=The Guardian|first=Carole|last=Cadwalladr|title=It's the clever way to power – part 2|date=19 March 2008|access-date=19 December 2017|archive-date=9 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409160158/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/16/highereducation.careers|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Women at Oxford|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/women_at_oxford/index.html |publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=8 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304201310/http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/women_at_oxford/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2012}}</ref> Her great-great-grandfather was [[Samson Fox]], a self-made millionaire, and her great-grandmother was the actress [[Hilda Hanbury]], sister of [[Lily Hanbury]]. Her grandfather was [[Robin Fox (theatrical agent)|Robin Fox]], a theatrical agent.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emilia Fox|url=http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/wdytya_emiliafox.php|publisher=The Genealogist|access-date=19 December 2017|archive-date=28 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428075533/https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/wdytya_emiliafox.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Through Hanbury, she is related to the [[Terry family]] of actors.<ref>[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)|''Who Do You Think You Are?'']], BBC TV series, episode with Emilia Fox, first broadcast September 2011</ref>
