Jane March

Jane March
Born	Jane March Horwood (1973-03-20) 20 March 1973 Edgware, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Carmine Zozzora (1993–2001)

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

Life and career

March is a Eurasian of European and Asian descent, and was born Jane March Horwood in Edgware, London. Her father, Bernard Horwood, is a secondary school teacher of English and Spanish ancestry. Her mother, Jean, is Vietnamese and Chinese. March has one brother.

At age 14, March won a local "Become a Model" contest. She signed with Storm Model Management and began working as a print model using her middle name March, which was also her birth month.

After being spotted on the cover of Just Seventeen by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, she was chosen to play the female lead in his film The Lover, based on a semiautobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras. False rumours that the sex scenes between March and her co-star Tony Leung Ka-fai in the film had been real and not simulated led to her being dubbed "The sinner from Pinner". Speaking about the rumours in 2004, March said:

The suggestion that I'd slept with Tony Leung on set was a disgusting allegation. Jean-Jacques Annaud had a lot to do with that – he was trying to promote the film. ... I felt exploited by him. He never dispelled the rumours. He would walk into a room and be ambiguous, which ignited the fire. Everywhere I went in the world, the rumour followed me.

Two years after The Lover, she co-starred with Bruce Willis in the erotic thriller Color of Night (1994), directed by Richard Rush. The script was the first March had received since The Lover. She later said, "I didn't like the script at all, but it was a Bruce Willis film and I wasn't going to turn it down". She also had reservations about the nudity required by the part: she planned to require the filmmakers to alter some nude scenes, but she eventually did not do so because her working experience on the film was very happy. She went on saying, "I wasn't at all comfortable with the nudity in Color of Night. ... At least in The Lover the scenes were relevant to the script. In Color of Night they were just gratuitous."

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 best man and Demi Moore was the maid of honour. They separated in 1997 and finally divorced in 2001.

March continues to perform occasionally. She appeared in Will in 2011, while her latest role was Queen Gwendolyn in Grimm's Snow White released in 2012 for TV.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1992	L' Amant aka The Lover	The Young Girl
1994	Color of Night	Rose	In 2000, Maxim named her sex scenes in Colour of Night as the best sex scenes in film history
1996	Never Ever	Amanda Trevane Murray
1998	Provocateur	Sook Hee/Miya
	Tarzan and the Lost City	Jane Porter
2000	Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula	Lidia	USA Network TV film
2003	Beauty and the Beast	Freya	filmed in South Africa and the UK
2006	The Stone Merchant	Leda
2009	My Last Five Girlfriends	Olive
2010	Clash of the Titans	Hestia
	Stalker	Linda
2011	Will	Sister Noell
	Perfect Baby	Emma
2012	Grimm's Snow White	Queen Gwendolyn	Direct-to-video release
2013	Confections of a Discarded Woman	Lana	post-production
	Film: The Making Of...	Herself	filming

Television series

Year	Series	Role	Notes
2000	Relic Hunter	Suzanne	1 episode: "Possessed"
2001	Dark Realm	Sharon Steppling	1 episode: "Murder One"

References

• Woolf, Henry B. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. 1973. ISBN 0-87779-308-5.

External links

• Jane March at IMDb