Roxanne Saint (born November 5, 1977), known professionally as Roxy Saint, 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 ''
Zombie Strippers
''Zombie Strippers'' is a 2008 American zombie comedy film shot, edited, written, and directed by Jay Lee. The film, starring Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, Penny Drake, and Roxy Saint, was distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Pl ...
'' and as the lead performer in the goth band Roxy Saint and the Blackouts.
Early life
Roxanne Saint was born on November 5, 1977 in
Los Angeles, California
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. An only child whose father died when she was two, Saint was raised in Southern California by her mother.
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
Sofia Coppola
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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
album
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with guest vocals on the single "Dirty, Dirty".
She performed a song for the 1999 movie ''The Criminal'', starring
Steven Mackintosh,
and a song for the 2002 film ''
The Hot Chick'', starring actor
Rob Schneider
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Following ...
.
KNAC
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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 ''
San Francisco Weekly'' 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 ''
Zombie Strippers
''Zombie Strippers'' is a 2008 American zombie comedy film shot, edited, written, and directed by Jay Lee. The film, starring Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, Penny Drake, and Roxy Saint, was distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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'', written and directed by Jay Lee.
In 2014, filming completed in
Las Vegas
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for ''
Death In The Desert'', a full-length movie in which Saint plays the character Corey and performs an original song by record producer
Chris Goss. Saint, an executive producer on the film, which is directed and produced by her husband, Evans, stars
Michael Madsen
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,
Shayla Beesley and
Paz de la Huerta.
Personal life
She has one son, Jackson, with husband
Josh Evans born in December 2010.
References
External links
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American film actresses
Actresses from California
American punk rock guitarists
American punk rock singers
Record producers from California
Living people
Singers from California
Guitarists from California
1977 births
21st-century American women singers
American women record producers
21st-century American women guitarists
Evans family (show business)
21st-century American singers
American women punk rock singers