Roxanne Saint (born November 5, 1977) 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.
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'' and as the lead performer in the goth band Roxy Saint and the Blackouts.
Biography
An only child whose father died when she was two, Saint was raised in Southern California by her mother. She has one son, Jackson, with husband
Josh Evans in December 2010.
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
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. ''Blog Critics'' called Saint "the next huge thing" and "PJ Harvey crossed with
Sophia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and actress. The youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama film ...
."
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
Steven Mackintosh (born 30 April 1967) is an English actor and narrator. He is perhaps best known for his role as Andreas Tanis in the action horror films '' Underworld: Evolution'' (2006) and '' Underworld: Rise of the Lycans'' (2009).
Mack ...
,
and a song for the 2002 film ''
The Hot Chick
''The Hot Chick'' is a 2002 American comedy film written and directed by Tom Brady, with additional writing by Rob Schneider. Schneider stars as Clive Maxtone, a middle-aged criminal who switches bodies with mean-spirited cheerleader Jessica Spe ...
'', starring actor
Rob Schneider
Robert Michael Schneider (; born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'', he went on to a career in feature films, including starri ...
.
KNAC
KBUE (105.5 FM, "Que Buena 105.5/94.3 FM") is a commercial radio station licensed to Long Beach, California, that serves the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It is owned by Estrella Media and airs a Regional Mexican radio format. Studios and ...
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
''SF Weekly'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California. It was distributed every Thursday, and was published by the San Francisco Print Media Company. The paper has won national journalism awards, ...
'' 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.
Plot
...
'', written and directed by Jay Lee.
In 2014, filming completed in
Las Vegas
Las Vegas (; Spanish language, Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the List of United States cities by population, 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the U.S. state, state of Neva ...
for ''
Death In The Desert
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'', a full-length movie in which Saint plays the character Corey and performs an original song by record producer
Chris Goss
Christopher Ryan Goss (born August 17, 1958) is an American record producer and musician. Best known for producing records for Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, he is regarded as an important figure in the development of stoner rock and deser ...
. Saint, an executive producer on the film, which is directed and produced by her husband, Evans, stars
Michael Madsen
Michael Søren Madsen (born September 25, 1957) is an American actor. He has starred in many films and television series, frequently collaborating with director Quentin Tarantino, most famously in the latter's debut film ''Reservoir Dogs'' (19 ...
,
Shayla Beesley
Shayla Beesley is an American actress best known for her role in the horror film ''Reaper''.
Biography
Beesley was born the oldest of four children to mother Tegan Ollie, a belly dancer who died in 2012, and father Graham Beesley. She lives in H ...
and
Paz de la Huerta
María de la Paz Elizabeth Sofía Adriana de la Huerta y Bruce (; born September 3, 1984), known professionally as Paz de la Huerta, is an American actress and model. She had roles in the films '' The Cider House Rules'' (1999) and '' A Walk to ...
.
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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
21st-century American guitarists
Evans family (Paramount Pictures)
21st-century American singers
Women punk rock singers