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. At age 14, whilst still attending Nower Hill High School in Pinner, north London, March won a local "Become a Model" contest.

Career

After

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, March moved to an apartment in

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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, Laurence Duval Annaud. March played the female lead in the 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 Richard Rush. ''Maxim'' magazine 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, with Willis as the

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and

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as the

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. 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. 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

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. They have one child.

Filmography

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