Amaryllis Fox

Fox's first marriage was to a British man named Anthony; the marriage was annulled. Fox has a daughter named Zoë with her second husband, Dean Fox, a CIA officer who had previously served in Afghanistan, and with whom she lived undercover in Shanghai; they later divorced. Fox is currently married to Robert Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy; they have a daughter named Bobby and a son named Cassius. Fox and Kennedy were introduced via a mutual friend at Burning Man, and married on Cape Cod in 2018.

Fox became one of the youngest female officers in the CIA at the age of 22, assigned to "non-official cover," entailing living abroad with a fake identity and no diplomatic protections. Fox states her work focused on preventing terror organizations from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, assuming the cover of an art dealer. After eight years at the agency, Fox left the CIA in 2010.

In 1999, at the age of 18, Fox clandestinely recorded an interview for the BBC with the Burmese leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi, then under house arrest. To arrange the meeting, Fox worked with a local dissident journalist with whom she communicated via taped messages inside the water tank of a toilet at a café in Rangoon. Her intent in the trip had been to make a secret recording of planned pro-democracy protests on September 9. A book, called "In the Quiet Land" was set to be published in 2002, with film rights optioned to Golden Square Pictures and screenplay by Nick Thomas.

Growing up in Washington, D.C. and London, Fox attended the National Cathedral School beginning in eighth grade and graduated in 1998; she attended The American School in London during tenth grade. She completed undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford in 2002. Fox stated that while at Oxford, she rebuffed approaches from the Secret Intelligence Service. Prior to Fox's final year at Oxford, the September 11 attacks took place while she was visiting family in Washington, D.C.; subsequently, she decided to pursue a master's degree in conflict and terrorism at the Walsh School of Foreign Service. For her master's thesis, Fox developed an algorithm intended to identify local terrorist safe havens, which attracted attention from the CIA.

Amaryllis Hope Fox (born Amaryllis Damerell Thornber; September 22, 1980) is an American writer, television host, public speaker, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. She departed from her role at the CIA in 2010. Subsequently, Fox authored a memoir about her time in the CIA, entitled Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, published by Knopf Doubleday in October 2019. She is the host of the six-episode Netflix documentary series The Business of Drugs, released in July 2020.