Jane March Horwood (born 20 March 1973) is an English film actress and former model.

Early life and education

March was born Jane March Horwood in

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. Her father, Bernard Horwood, was a design and technology secondary school teacher of English and Spanish ancestry. Her mother, Jean, a newsagent, is Vietnamese and Chinese. March has one brother, a landscape designer. At age 14, whilst still attending Nower Hill High School in

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, north London, March won a local "Become a Model" contest. She signed with

Storm Model Management Storm Management is a British model agency based in Chelsea, London. Background Storm was founded in 1987 by Sarah Doukas in London. Doukas discovered Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne, Behati Prinsloo, and Anya Taylor-Joy. In 2009, Doukas sold a con ...

and began working as a print model using her middle name March, which was also her birth month.

Career

After

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, March moved to an apartment in Wimbledon with friends and continued to model before a call to audition in Paris on her 17th birthday following a cover shoot of ''Just Seventeen'' which had attracted the attention of French director

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's wife. March was chosen to play the female lead in 1992 film '' The Lover'', based on a semi-autobiographical novel by

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. Two years after ''The Lover'', she co-starred with

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in the

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'' (1994), directed by

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. The script was the first March had received since ''The Lover''. ''Color of Night'' became a box office failure, but the film went on to do very well in the

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market and became one of the top 20 most-rented films in the United States in 1995. ''Maxim'' magazine also ranked her sex scene in the film as "the Best Sex Scene in film history".

Personal life

While ''Color of Night'' was in production, March began dating the film's co-producer, Carmine Zozzora. The couple married in June 1993 in an 11-minute ceremony at which Willis was the

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and

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was the

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. According to ''Color of Night'' director

, March still received many offers from Hollywood studios after the film's release, but Zozzora required the studios to also hire him as the producer for any film in which March would star, a condition most studios rejected. For this reason, March did not star in more films during their marriage. March and Zozzora separated in 1997 and finally divorced in 2001. A few years later, March married

Steven Waddington Steven Waddington (born 30 December 1967) is an English film and television actor. He is best known for his supporting role in Michael Mann's ''The Last of the Mohicans''. Early life Waddington was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, the ...

; they have one child.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:March, Jane 1973 births Living people English film actresses English people of Chinese descent British people of Vietnamese descent English television actresses English people of Spanish descent People from Edgware Actresses from London 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses English people of Vietnamese descent