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Roxanne Saint (born November 5, 1977) is an American singer, musician, video producer, director, and actress who started singing at age 17. She's known for her role in the film ''
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'' and as the lead performer in the goth band Roxy Saint and the Blackouts.


Biography

An only child whose father died when she was two, Saint was raised in Southern California by her mother. She has one son, Jackson, with husband Josh Evans in December 2010.


Career

In the early 1990s, she was the vocalist for Hollywood band Never on Sunday. She went solo, and in 1995 released the CD ''Orphan Child'', which contained rerecorded songs from her previous band. Her debut DVD release, however, which Saint directed and produced, was ''The Underground Personality Tapes'' in 2003. She toured in England, including performing at the Leeds and Reading festivals. ''Blog Critics'' called Saint "the next huge thing" and "PJ Harvey crossed with
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." She has released her music, which include videos, as an indie producer, via DVDs, the Internet and digital downloads. Saint contributed to the rock band Die Trying's self-named
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with guest vocals on the single "Dirty, Dirty". She performed a song for the 1999 movie ''The Criminal'', starring
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, and a song for the 2002 film ''
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'', starring actor
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radio's Mick Stingley, in a CD/DVD review of ''The Underground Personality Tapes'', wrote that Saint was "New Wave retro cool, LA glammo sleaze-rock, with Boss Super Over-Drive distortion pedal to the floor" who "has something to offer." And in a 2004 interview, ''In Music We Trust Magazine'' described Saint's brand of music as "defying convention and going against logic." Also in 2004, Saint, who's known for shopping for her clothes at thrift stores, launched her own clothing line titled Trash Couture with her dresses numbered and individually named ("Chaos," "Aquarius" and "Glitch"). ''MK Magazine'' described the line as "one-of-a-kind dresses made from black plastic trash bags." The ''
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'' wrote that during her 2005 European tour, Saint's belongings were stolen, which the paper said, "may have been the best thing that ever happened to her. ... Her slashed, duct-taped, hand-painted 'Trash Couture' creations were such a hit that she now sells them online."


Films

She co-starred, playing the role of Lillith, in the 2008 film ''
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'', written and directed by Jay Lee. In 2014, filming completed in
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for ''
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'', a full-length movie in which Saint plays the character Corey and performs an original song by record producer
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. Saint, an executive producer on the film, which is directed and produced by her husband, Evans, stars
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,
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and
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