{{Short description|Mexican actress}} {{family name hatnote|Fox|Gaitán|lang=Spanish}} {{more footnotes needed|date=January 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Iliana Fox | image = Iliana Fox (cropped).jpg | caption = | birth_name = Iliana Jan Fox Gaitán | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|1|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico | occupation = Actress | years_active = 2000–present | partner = José María Yazpik | children = 1 }} '''Iliana Fox''' (born '''Iliana Jan Fox Gaitán''' on 3 January 1977) is a Mexican actress.
Fox grew up in Mexico, but with periods of residence in Canada and the UK. She has participated in various telenovelas such as ''Machos'' and ''Mirada de Mujer: El Regreso''. She studied singing with Carlos Fernández and later enrolled in the TV Azteca School (CEFAC) where she studied with Raúl Quintanilla. Her first telenovela was ''Señora''. Her first leading role was in ''Ellas'' in 1999. In her first major film, ''Kilometer 31'', she played the lead.
In 2013, Fox co-starred in the series ''Fortuna'', playing a police officer or agent on the Mexican channel Cadena Tres. Later that year, Fox appeared in the TV Azteca telenovela Prohibido ''amar.''<ref>{{Cite news |title=Con nuevo 'look', Ilina Fox regresa a las telenovelas en 'Amor Prohibido' |url=http://mx.hola.com/cine/201309134936/iliana-fox-telenovelas/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160304135131/http://mx.hola.com/cine/201309134936/iliana-fox-telenovelas/ |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2025-12-12 |work=HOLA |language=es-ES}}</ref>
In 2016, she co-starred with Ludwika Paleta in the film ''Parallel Paths.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Solorzano |first=Lucero |date=2016-05-17 |title=Rumbos paralelos |url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/opinion/lucero-solorzano/2016/05/18/1093310 |access-date=2025-12-12 |website=Excélsior |language=es-MX}}</ref>
== Personal life == Fox was in a relationship for several years with Mexican actor José María Yazpik with whom she had a daughter.<ref>{{cite web|title=Iliana Fox, Eréndira Ibarra, Juan Manuel Benal y José María Yazpik se unen a los padres de la Guardería ABC|url=http://mx.hola.com/cine/201406067161/famosos-marcha-tragedia-guarderiaabc/|website=mx.hola.com|accessdate=4 May 2017|language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Leonor, la hija de José María Yazpik e Iliana Fox, convertida en una hermosa princesita|url=http://mx.hola.com/cine/201210222540/jose-maria-jazpik-leonor/|website=mx.hola.com|accessdate=4 May 2017|language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chema Yázpik: 'Iliana Fox y yo nos llevamos muy bien´|url=http://www.quien.com/espectaculos/2013/12/11/jose-maria-yazpik-chema-separacion-iliana-fox|website=quien.com|accessdate=4 May 2017|language=Spanish}}</ref>
== Filmography == === Films === {| class="wikitable sortable" ! width="42" | Year ! width="250" | Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2004 | ''El sonido del silencio'' | La Hermana | Short film |- | 2006 | ''Kilómetro 31'' | Ágata / Catalina | |- | 2008 | ''La hora cero'' | Paula | |- | 2010 | ''180°'' | Bárbara | |- | 2011 | ''Nos vemos, papá'' | Madre de Pilar | |- | 2013 | ''Actores S.A.'' | Rebeca | |- | 2015 | ''Las Aparicio'' | Mercedes | |- | rowspan="2" | 2016 | ''Rumbos paralelos'' | Silvia | |- | ''Km 31-2'' | Ágata y Catalina | |- | 2019 | ''Como si fuera la primera vez'' | Emely | |- |}
=== Television === {| class="wikitable sortable" ! width="42" | Year ! width="250" | Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2000 | ''Ellas, inocentes {{nowrap|o culpables}}'' | Victoria | |- | 2001 | ''Cuando seas mía'' | {{nowrap|Diana Sánchez}} Zambrano | |- | 2001–07 | ''Lo que callamos las mujeres'' | Unknown role | 2 episodes |- | 2003 | ''Mirada de mujer, el regreso'' | Ana | |- | 2004 | ''La vida es {{nowrap|una canción}}'' | Unknown role | |- | 2005 | ''Machos'' | Fernanda Garrido | |- | 2008 | ''Vivir por ti'' | Ximena | |- | 2010 | ''Bienes raíces'' | Unknown role | |- | 2011 | ''A corazón abierto'' | {{nowrap|María Alejandra}} Rivas Carrera | |- | 2013 | ''Fortuna'' | Florencia Elizalde | |- | 2013 | ''Prohibido amar'' | {{nowrap|Laura Saldivar}} {{nowrap|de Hernández}} | |- | 2013–2018 | ''Sr. Ávila'' | Tamara | |- | 2014 | ''Señora Acero'' | Vanessa Creel | 13 episodes |- | 2015 | ''Caminos de Guanajuato'' | Florencia Rivero | |- | 2017 | ''La fiscal de hierro'' | Silvana Durán | |- | 2017 | ''Dogma'' | Alicia Cervantes | |- | 2019–2020 | ''Médicos'' | Susana | |- | 2020–2021 | ''Imperio de mentiras'' | Cristina | |- |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0289032|name=Iliana Fox}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070210210909/http://www.tvazteca.com/telenovelas/galerias/ilianafox/index.shtml TV Azteca]
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