Description:
March 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 L'amant (1992), based on a semi autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras.
Two years after L'amant (1992), she co-starred with Bruce Willis in the erotic thriller Color of Night (1994), directed by Richard Rush. 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".
While Color of Night (1994) 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 Bruce Willis was the best man and Demi Moore was the maid of honor. They separated in 1997 and finally divorced in 2001.
Birthday
March 20, 1973
Born In
Edgware, London, England, UK
Height
157 cm
Parents
Bernard Horwood
Relatives
Jason March Horwood (Sibling)
Trivia
Is great friends with L'amant (1992) director Jean-Jacques Annaud. However, this was not
always so. When L'amant (1992) was released, false rumours of her having real
love scenes with co-star Tony Ka Fai Leung circulated, and she felt abandoned and
exploited by Annaud for never putting an end to the speculation, which
even fueled the rumours and gained huge publicity for the film. This
led to March having a nervous breakdown, in which the producer of
L'amant (1992) recognised what was happening and sent her to the Seychelles
for a week. March did not speak to Annaud for 10 years, until his apology
to her in 2003.
Quotes
[Referring to L'amant (1992) rumours]: "The suggestion that I'd slept with
Tony Ka Fai Leung on set was a disgusting allegation. Jean-Jacques Annaud had a lot to do
with that - he was trying to promote the film. Now, I would handle
things very differently, but back then - when I was in the middle of
it, and a kid, really - it was very, very hard. 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. After that, Jean-Jacques Annaud and I lost contact
for a number of years."
Nickname
The Sinner From Pinner
