Lydia Fox, Richard Ayoade's wife

Lydia Fox is a British Actress and also the wife of Richard Ayoade. Fox’s husband, Ayoade is a British actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, and writer. He is best known for his role as socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, for which he won the 2014 BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance. Lydia Fox and his husband have two children.

Lydia Fox: Profile Summary

Born in 1979, Lydia Fox is the daughter of the actor James Fox and ‘Mary Elizabeth Piper‘, and the sister of Laurence Fox and also has three additional brothers. She is the only daughter of James Fox and Mary Piper.

A large portion of her family is involved in acting, including her father, three of her four brothers, her uncles, her husband, and her sister-in-law. Lydia is from an extensive family of actors.

On 8 September 2007, she married the actor, comedian, writer, and director Richard Ayoade. She is also the sister-in-law of the actress Billie Piper. Actress and producer Lydia Fox is 43 years old as of 2022.

The two have been a couple since their university days, and have often worked together professionally. Lydia Fox plays Miss Dutton in the coming-of-age comedy, Submarine, directed by her husband Richard Ayoade. She also produced 2013’s The Double, which was directed by Ayoade.

Lydia Fox studied at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge and Richard attended St Catharine’s College. The couple met at a theatre performance at university where Lydia was in the audience and Richard onstage. After dating for while the couple took their relationship to the next level, they got married on 8 September 2007. They got married in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. Lydia Fox and her husband live in East Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, England.

The couple’s marriage has been blessed with three children. The couple has been pictured with two daughters Esme and Ida.

On an episode of The Sacred podcast, Richard said that his wife Lydia is the reader in his head for everything he writes.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Lydia Fox’s brother Laurence revealed his brother-in-law Richard refused to support him after his controversial appearance on BBC’s Question Time.

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Since February 2018, Lydia Fox’s husband Ayoade has voiced Onion, one of the title characters in the Cartoon Network animated series Apple & Onion. He also returned to music video directing in 2018, helming the science fiction-inspired video for The Breeders song “Spacewoman”. Ayoade was featured in a supporting role as a pompous artist in both parts of Joanna Hogg’s two-part drama The Souvenir. 

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Lydia Fox’s husband Ayoade also lent his voice as a talking ice cream cone to the animated comedy sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)–which also featured Noel Fielding– and the English version of the Finnish series Moominvalley. Ayoade provided voice work for the hit Star Wars Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019) where he voiced the droid Zero in a recurring role. He also lent his voice for the animated adult fantasy sitcom Disenchantment (2021) on Netflix where he voiced the character, Alva Gunderson.

Ayoade is a fan of French New Wave cinema and said in an interview with The Guardian that Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le Métro was the film that sparked his interest in filmmaking. His favorite filmmakers include Malle, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Lydia Fox’s husband participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound directors’ poll, where he listed his ten favorite films: The Apartment, Badlands, Barry Lyndon, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Make Way for Tomorrow, Contempt, Ordet, Persona, Raging Bull, and Tokyo Story.