Jane March
Birth nameJane March Horwood
Birth placeEdgware, London, England
OccupationActress
Years active1992–present
Spouse

Jane March Horwood (born 1973)[1][2] is an English film actress and former model.

Early life, family 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 of Chinese ancestry.[1]

At age 14 and a student at Nower Hill High School in Pinner, north London, she won a Become a Model contest[3] which launched her career.

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.[2] March played the female lead in the 1992 film The Lover, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.[4]

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".[5]

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.[6] 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.[7] For this reason, March did not star in more films during their marriage.[7]

March and Zozzora separated in 1997 and divorced in 2001. A few years later, March married Steven Waddington. They have one child.[8][9]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1992The LoverThe Young Girl
1994Color of NightRose/Bonnie/Richie
1996Never EverAmanda Murray[10]
1997ProvocateurSook Hee[11]
1998Tarzan and the Lost CityJane Porter[12]
2000Dark Prince: The True Story of DraculaLidia[13]
2005Beauty and the Beast (a.k.a. Blood of Beasts)Freya[14]
2006The Stone MerchantLeda[15]
2009My Last Five GirlfriendsOlive
2010 Clash of the TitansHestia[16]
2010 StalkerLinda[17]
2011Perfect BabyEmma[18]
2011 WillSister Noell
2012Grimm's Snow WhiteQueen Gwendolyn[19]
2013 Jack the Giant KillerSerena[20]

References

  1. ^ Bradberry, Grace (2004-01-23). "The original sinner". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 2010-02-13. Retrieved 2025-04-14. … the age of 30… Miss March remains disconcertingly waif-like.
  2. ^ Goodman, Mark (1992-11-16). "Beware the Eyes of March". People. Vol. 38, no. 20. Retrieved 2025-04-14. … very promising career for March, 19…
  3. ^ "Four faces of the future". Pinner Observer. 1988-05-12.
  4. ^ Denby, David (9 November 1992). "Last Tango in Saigon". New York. pp. 68–69. – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Top Sex Scenes of All-Time". Extra. 6 December 2000. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  6. ^ Staff (17 June 1993). "An Informal Wedding". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  7. ^ Color of Night (Commentary Track). Kino Lorber. 2018. Kino Lorber
  8. ^ Mason, Aiden (8 July 2019). "Meet The Cast of PBS Show "Jamestown"". TVOvermind
  9. ^ "珍-玛奇：《情人》改变了我 做母亲成就了我" [Jane March: The Lover changed me, and motherhood fulfilled me.] (in Chinese). ent.sina.cn. 13 July 2011. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
  10. ^ Elley, Derek (30 September 1996). "Never Ever". Variety. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  11. ^ Jim Donovan (dir.) (1998). "Provocateur". IMDb. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  12. ^ "Tarzan and the Lost City". The Austin Chronicle. 14 April 2000. Archived 19 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  13. ^ McGuire, Judy. "Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 26 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  14. ^ Weinberg, Scott (18 October 2005). "Blood of Beasts". DVD Talk
  15. ^ D'Agostini, Paolo (15 September 2006). "Mercante di pietre, manifesto nascosto sotto forma di film" [Stone merchant, a hidden manifesto in the form of a film] (in Italian). La Repubblica. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  16. ^ "Jane March". The Numbers. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  17. ^ Kermode, Jennie (25 October 2010). "Stalker (2010) Film Review". Eye For Film
  18. ^ Zeng Jian (曾剑) (17 December 2010). "zh:《巴黎宝贝》开放探班 伊能静与邓超激情探戈" ['Baby of Paris' open to visit Yi Nengjing and Deng Chao passionate tango] (in Chinese). qq.com. Archived 21 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  19. ^ Breihan, Tom (10 October 2012). "Mockbuster Video". Grantland. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  20. ^ Foy, Scott (10 February 2013). "Would You Trade Some Magic Beans for Artwork and a Trailer for The Asylum's Jack the Giant Killer?". Dread Central. Archived from the original on 14 February 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.