Jane March Biography
A delicate young English model turned actress of partially Chinese and Spanish descent, the slightly exotic-looking Jane March provided a quietly stunning star turn as the Young Girl in director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ sensual autobiographical novel “The Lover” (1992). Starring opposite Bruce Willis in the “Color of Night” (1994), she played a flaky aspiring actress who has several steamy nude scenes with Willis. While March garnered favorable reviews, the film itself was not so warmly received. March continued to act in forgettable features before landing the plum assignment of playing Jane to Casper Van Dien’s Lord of the Jungle in “Tarzan and the Lost City” (1998).
- Also Credited As:
Jane Horwood - Born:
on 03/20/1973 in Edgeware, England - Job Titles:
Actor, Model
Significant Others
- Husband: Carmine Zozzora. born c. 1958; married June 14, 1993; met when she auditioned for “Color of Night”, a Bruce Willis vehicle that Zozzora produced
Milestones
- 1987 Won a local “Become a Model” contest at age 14
- 1992 Acting debut in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “The Lover”
- 1994 Hollywood debut, “Color of Night”
Lysette Anthony Biography
Top fashion photographer David Bailey once called Lysette Anthony “The Face of the Eighties”, but Anthony took the funds from her youthful career as an international model and invested them in acting lessons, eventually abandoning modeling altogether when the acting roles began coming full force. The daughter of actors Michael Anthony and Bernadette Miles, Anthony was the youngest member in the National Youth Theatre in her native England when she joined at age 14. Early roles were in TV remakes of classics, such as “Ivanhoe” and “Oliver Twist” (both CBS, 1982) as well as Lady Sarah in the miniseries “Princess Daisy” (NBC, 1983). She portrayed Angelique in NBC’s 1991 update of “Dark Shadows” and scored a hit with critics as Sydney Pollack’s aerobics instructor girlfriend in Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives” (1992). Anthony found herself in demand and she was cast as the second lead in “Look Who’s Talking Now” (1993) and in leading roles in two 1994 TV-movies, “The Hard Truth” (HBO) and “Target of Suspicion” (USA). Anthony appeared on the big screen in two send-ups of classic tales, “Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde” and Mel Brooks’ “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” (both 1995).
- Born:
on 09/26/63 in London, England - Job Titles:
Actor, Model, Producer
Family
- Father: Michael Anthony. operated touring company, Stage Arts Players; divorced from Anthony’s mother; died on February 14, 1998 at age 86
- Half-sister: Frances Anthony Butlin. older; from father’s marriage to Mary Mays
- Mother: Bernadette Milnes. operated touring company, Stage Arts Players; divorced from Anthony’s father
Significant Others
- Husband: David F Price. married on April 23, 1999
- Husband: Luc Leestemaker. born in The Netherlands; divorced
Milestones
- 1973 Joined parents’ theater company
- 1977 Became member of National Youth Theater
- 1979 Discovered by photographer David Bailey; began modeling career
- 1982 US TV debut as Lady Rowena in “Ivanhoe” (CBS)
- 1983 Film debut as Princess Lyssa in “Krull”
- 1990 Starred in TNT movie “A Ghost in Monte Carlo”
- 1991 First Hollywood film, Blake Edwards’ “Switch”
- 1991 Played Angelique on TV remake of “Dark Shadows”
- 1992 Breakthrough screen role as Sydney Pollack’s girlfriend in Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives”
- 1998 Portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the London production of the comedy “Jackie”
- Appeared on BBC-TV series “Three Up, Two Down”
- Born in London, England
- Formed Barnaby Films
- Left modeling to devote full time to acting
Gabrielle Anwar Biography
Svelte English ingenue of Hollywood films who became widely noticed when she teamed with Al Pacino for a memorable tango in “Scent of a Woman” (1992). Anwar made her English TV debut at age 15 in the BBC miniseries, “Hideaway”. After working in a number of English and American TV projects, Anwar made her American feature debut as the lead in Disney’s girl-and-her-horse story, “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” (1991), playing real-life stunt rider Sonora Webster famous for diving into a tank of water while on horseback. Anwar next starred opposite Michael J. Fox in the romantic comedy, “For Love or Money” (1993) and acted in “Body Snatchers” (1994), Abel Ferrara’s bloody remake of Don Siegel’s cold-war horror classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956).
- Born:
on 02/04/70 in Laleham, England - Job Titles:
Actor, House cleaner
Family
- Daughter: Willow Anwar. born in 1993
- Father: Tariq Anwar. was nominated for Oscar for “American Beauty” (1999) and received a BAFTA Award for the same film
Significant Others
- Companion: Craig Sheffer. met in London in 1989
Milestones
- 1987 US TV acting debut, “Fearnot”, a TV movie
- 1988 Feature acting debut, “Manifesto”
- 1991 First film in a lead role, “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken”
- Professional acting debut in the BBC miniseries, “Hideaway”