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Lauren Christy is an English singer-songwriter and music producer. She is apart of the writing trio The Matrix.

Early life and education[link]

Christy was born in London, England. She studied at the Bush Davies Ballet School as a child, before she decided to become a musician.^[1]

Career[link]

Music career[link]

Christy was a member of several bands. Her first band, Pink Ash, consisted of six male members and herself. Her stage name was Susie Reptile. After frantically writing and looking for inspiration from her keyboards, Christy achieved both a publishing deal with EMI and a major label record contract with Polygram Records.

She released her self-titled debut album on February 19, 1993, including the singles "You Read Me Wrong" and "Steep," which targeted the adult contemporary market. Her second, Breed, was released on July 22, 1997 and featured a substantially different style than Lauren Christy, being more of a pop rock album.

In 1994, Christy had a minor AC hit with "The Color of the Night", the theme song to the Bruce Willis film Color of Night. After the song gained airplay, her eponymous debut album was re-released with "The Color of the Night" included as a bonus track.

Three years later, she contributed the song "Breed" to the Batman and Robin soundtrack, which was also released as the first single for the Breed album. Though the song's video received heavy rotation on MTV, the single and album failed to chart. The second single, "Magazine" also failed to make an impression.

Though Breed is Christy's most recent full length album as of 2007^[update] (reportedly plans for a third album were shelved with the demise of Mercury Records^{[citation needed]}), she has continued to contribute to film and television soundtracks, particularly the song "Walk This Earth Alone" on the Great Expectations soundtrack. The track "Anywhere the Wind Blows" appears in the film Seven Girlfriends (as does Christy herself, in a bit part) and "Satellite" can be found on the closing credits to William Shatner's Free Enterprise, though neither song has seen a commercial release outside of the movie appearances. "I Want What I Want" from the Breed album made it into the movie Wild Things, but failed to make it onto the movie's soundtrack.

The Matrix: Writing and producing career[link]

Since the late 1990s, Christy has primarily worked with her husband; songwriter and music producer Graham Edwards and musician, composer and remixer Scott Spock in pop music writing and production team called The Matrix. In this capacity, she has written or co-written and produced songs for Tokio Hotel, Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys, Hilary Duff, Ronan Keating, Korn, Avril Lavigne, Lillix, Ricky Martin, Ashley Parker Angel, Kelly Clarkson, Mcfly, Jason Mraz, Liz Phair, Britney Spears, Skye Sweetnam, Shakira, Miranda Cosgrove, Enrique Iglesias, Katy Perry and Adam Longlands.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Interview, HitQuarters Jul 06

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Jane March (born Jane March Horwood; 20 March 1973) is an English film actress and former print model.

Life and career[link]

March was born Jane March Horwood^[1][2] in Edgware, London, England. 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^[2] 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 The Lover, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras. False rumours that the sex scenes between March and her co-star Tony Leung Ka-fai in the film had been real and not simulated led to her being dubbed "The sinner from Pinner".^[1] Speaking about the rumours in 2004, March said:

The suggestion that I'd slept with Tony Leung on set was a disgusting allegation. Jean-Jacques Annaud had a lot to do with that – he was trying to promote the film. ... 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.^[2]

Two years after The Lover, she co-starred with Bruce Willis in the erotic thriller Color of Night (1994), directed by Richard Rush. The script was the first March had received since The Lover.^[2] 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".^[2] She also had reservations about the nudity required by the part: she planned to require the filmmakers to alter some nude scenes, but she eventually didn't do so because her working experience on the film was very happy.^[2] She went on saying, "I wasn't at all comfortable with the nudity in Color of Night. ... At least in The Lover the scenes were relevant to the script. In Color of Night they were just gratuitous."^[2]

While Color of Night 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 Willis was best man and Demi Moore was maid of honour.^[2] They separated in 1997 and finally divorced in 2001.

March continues to perform occasionally. Her most recent film, Will, was released in 2011.

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Television series[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jane March at the Internet Movie Database

Bruce Willis
Willis at the San Diego Comic-Con International, July 2010
Born	Walter Bruce Willis (1955-03-19) March 19, 1955 (age 57) Idar-Oberstein, State of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany
Other names	W.B. Willis Bruno
Occupation	Actor, producer, musician
Years active	1980–present
Notable work(s)	Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, 12 monkeys, Armageddon, The Jackal, The Sixth Sense, Over the Hedge
Spouse	Demi Moore (1987–2000) Emma Heming (2009–present)
Children	Rumer Willis, Scout Willis, Tallulah Willis, Mabel Willis

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a German-born American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Over the Hedge (2006) and Red (2010).

Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth highest including supporting roles.^[1][2] He is a two-time Emmy Award–winning, Golden Globe Award–winning and four-time Saturn Award–nominated actor. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000, following thirteen years of marriage. He is currently married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has one daughter.