Jane March
{{short description|English actress (born 1973)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2010}}
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| birthname = Jane March Horwood
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| birth_place = Edgware, London, England
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| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1992–present
| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Carmine Zozzora|1993|2001|end=divorced}}|Steven Waddington ({{abbr|m.|married}})}}
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Jane March Horwood (born 1973) is an English film actress and former model.
Early life and education
March's 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.{{cite news |first=Grace |last=Bradberry |title=The original sinner |work=Evening Standard |location=London |department=Going Out |date=2004-01-23 |quote=… the age of 30… Miss March remains disconcertingly waif-like. |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-8793288-the-original-sinner.do |access-date=2025-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213192242/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-8793288-the-original-sinner.do |archive-date=2010-02-13 |url-status=dead}}
At age 14, whilst still attending Nower Hill High School in Pinner, north London, March won a local "Become a Model" contest.{{cite news |author= |date=1988-05-12 |title=Four faces of the future |work=Pinner Observer}}
Career
After GCSEs, 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 Jean-Jacques Annaud's wife, Laurence Duval Annaud.{{Cite magazine |first=Mark |last=Goodman |title=Beware the Eyes of March |magazine=People |date=1992-11-16 |volume=38 |issue=20 |quote=… very promising career for March, 19… |url=https://people.com/archive/beware-the-eyes-of-march-vol-38-no-20/ |access-date=2025-04-14}} March played the female lead in the 1992 film The Lover, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.{{cite magazine|title=Last Tango in Saigon|first=David|last=Denby|author-link=David Denby|magazine=New York|date=9 November 1992|department=Movies|pages=68–69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeUCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Jane+March%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA68|via=Google Books}}
Two years after The Lover, she co-starred with Bruce Willis in the erotic thriller Color of Night (1994), directed by Richard Rush. Maxim magazine ranked her sex scene in the film as "the Best Sex Scene in film history".{{cite web|url=http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/reframe.html?http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/dailynews/pop/12_00/12_06a.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120628224513/http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/reframe.html?http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/dailynews/pop/12_00/12_06a.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 June 2012|title=Top Sex Scenes of All-Time|date=6 December 2000|access-date=9 July 2009 |publisher=Extra (U.S. TV program)}}
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, with Willis as the best man and Demi Moore as the maid of honour.{{cite web|website=The Buffalo News|url=https://buffalonews.com/article_4cc320dc-8202-5aa5-a021-21f00834ddbb.html|title=An Informal Wedding|date=17 June 1993|author=Staff|accessdate=12 November 2024}} According to Color of Night director Richard Rush, 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.{{cite AV media notes |type=Commentary Track |others=Richard Rush |id=Kino Lorber |title-link=Color of Night |orig-year=1994 |title=Color of Night |publisher=Kino Lorber|year=2018}} For this reason, March did not star in more films during their marriage.
March and Zozzora separated in 1997 and divorced in 2001. A few years later, March married Steven Waddington. They have one child.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvovermind.com/meet-the-cast-of-pbs-show-jamestown/|title=Meet The Cast of PBS Show "Jamestown"|first=Aiden|last=Mason|date=8 July 2019|website=TVOvermind}}{{Cite web|url=https://ent.sina.cn/film/chinese/2011-07-13/detail-iawzunex6405778.d.html|title=珍-玛奇：《情人》改变了我 做母亲成就了我|date=13 July 2011|website=ent.sina.cn}}
Filmography
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0001506}}
- {{TCMDb name|id=121737{{!}}0|name=Jane March}}
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Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:Actresses from London
Category:English film actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:English people of Chinese descent
Category:English people of Spanish descent
Category:English people of Vietnamese descent