Cox has more than 38 movie and television appearances. Her best-known movie credits include the 1999 Canadian movie
Better Than Chocolate, and the movie
The Chronicles of Riddick. She received a
Gemini Award nomination for her performance as Angela Ramírez in
F/X: The Series. Initially, Cox was a cast member of the
UPN sitcom
Girlfriends, played as Lynn, for the pilot episode, but replaced by another mixed-race actress Persia White in the final-cut series. Cox has appeared in numerous national theater productions, including Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night, and
Jim Cartwright's
Road. She is a trained stuntwoman who performed boxing stunt work for
Hilary Swank in
Million Dollar Baby. Cox's first role as a main character in a television series was that of
Vicki Nelson in
Blood Ties, a supernatural detective series based on the novels by
Tanya Huff. Huff later said, "Back when Christina Cox was doing
F/X: The Series, I used to point at the screen and announce, 'When she's a little older, she'd be brilliant as Vicki!" Cox also appeared in a Season Four episode of
Showtime's series
Dexter, playing villainous police officer Zoey Kruger. She was in the cast of the 2011
ABC summer drama
Combat Hospital (aka
The Hot Zone), alongside
Elias Koteas and
Deborah Kara Unger. She has appeared in the
NCIS episode
Freedom. ==Personal life==