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Sadie Frost (born 19 June 1965 in London)^[1] is an English fashion designer and former actress. She is probably best known for her six-year marriage to Jude Law and her friendship with Kate Moss, which have made her a staple of the British tabloids.

Biography

Born Sadie Liza Vaughan, her parents were psychedelic artist David Vaughan who did work for The Beatles (she was named after their song Sexy Sadie), and his then sixteen year old muse and actress Mary Davidson.^[1][2]

Her childhood she describes as "chaotic but positive experience,"^[1] being born in Primrose Hill, but spending much of her youth in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester after her parents separated. Her parents had six relationships between them, and although Sadie is the oldest they produced four sisters and five brothers for her: including fellow actresses Holly Davidson and Jade Davidson; a brother called Gabriel Jupiter and a sister named Sunshine Purple Tara Velvet.^[3] One of her step fathers was a follower of the Bhagwan cult, who forbade the children to say the “No” or “Sorry;” while during her fathers colour-therapy phase, he insisted that everybody in the house wear orange, and wouldn’t let them eat anything that was red.^[1] Frost later smuggled her father during his anarchist period out of the UK on a plane to Bali, giving him £1,000 - he came back after a week and the police sent a riot squad in with dogs.^[3]

Career

After appearing in a Jelly Tots advert aged three and appearing with Morecambe and Wise aged five, she gained a scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy.^[3] However, she gave up acting aged thriteen and attended Hampstead School^[4] On graduation she ran away to escape her parents, and aged nineteen she joined the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre to appear in Mumbo Jumbo.

A capable supporting actress, the majority of her acting credits have been brief supporting roles, including a part in the BBC's Casualty;^[5] her most memorable film appearance is as vampire Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992. She earned her living mainly through appearing in music video's, including for Pulp's song Common People, Planet Perfecto feat Grace Not Over Yet '99; and various productions for Spandau Ballet where she met first husband Gary Kemp.

After having her first child with Kemp, the pair appeared in "The Krays" together. In 1994 she took a role opposite a rising star named Jude Law in Paul W.S. Anderson's directorial debut "Shopping." Frost started an affair with Law, and although later seperated and divorcing from Kemp, the pair had to film a love scene for the 1994 film "Magic Hunter."^[6][3]

After marrying and having three children with Law, she gave up acting in the late 1990s, and moved into producing via the production company Natural Nylon with three other British actors: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Sean Pertwee; plus friend and bar owner Damon Bryant. The company produced such films as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and eXistenZ (both of which starred Law); and 2000's Nora which starred McGregor. Bryant and McGregor left the company in 2002, and following their divorce Law resigned as director in January 2003, with the company folding later that year.

In 1999 she co-founded the fashion label Frost French with her best friend, Jemima French. The label started in lingerie and has expanded into clothing collections. The company, her looks and her turbulent private life means she has an agent at Storm Model Agency,^[7] and appears irregularly on the cover of magazines such Glamour. In 2004 she wrote, presented and produced a short lived series What Sadie did next... for E4, and in 2005 appeared in Eating with...Sadie Frost on BBC2.

Personal life

A pursued target of the British tabloid press, in part thanks to her friendship with model Kate Moss, and also her own comments that “Men, being in love, being treated like a princess” have always been “a huge force” in her life.^[1] Resultantly she dislikes her own hot-headedness, and gossip mongers.^[4]

Aged 16 and dancing in a music video, she met and married Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp on May 7, 1988, and bore him a son, Finlay Munro (born September 20, 1990). After an affair with actor Jude Law, she divorced Kemp in 1997, and married Law on September 2, 1997. The couple had three children: son Rafferty (born October 6, 1996), daughter Iris (born October 25, 2000) and son Rudy Indiana Otis (born September 10, 2002). After Law had one affair too many, the couple finalised their divorce on October 29, 2003 with Frost alleging mental cruelty by Law over his treatment of her resulting in her need for pst natal depression.^[8] After a stressful two year negotiation, during which Frost was perscribed betablockers to manage a severe bout of panic attacks,^[9] in 2005 the couple reached a divorce settlement, with Frost keeping the couple's £2million house in Primrose Hill, and receiving a £4million payment and £15,000 a month. Frost has since had a series of relationships with various men, mostly younger actors.^[1]

A practitioner of Kundalini yoga,^[4] Frost has a number of charity commitments. In March 2006, Frost flew to South Africa to part-fund an orphanage for the Homes of Hope project. In September 2006 she posed nude for rocker Bryan Adams to take a photograph for a PETA anti-fur ad, taken to coincide with London Fashion Week.^[10]

Primrose Hill set

Frost is close to British model Kate Moss, being both godmother to Moss's daughter and both involved in the same charity work. Their relationship, together with former Hollyoaks actress Davinia Taylor was referred to in the tabloids as an extension of the 1990s "Primrose Hill set."^[11] Frost, Moss and Taylor said they were just good friends, and all holidayed together on Taylor's father boat in the Mediteranean with Moss's boyfriend Pete Doherty, who later admitted hiding drug's in Frost's handbag.^[12]

In September 2005 the Daily Mirror ran a front page pictures of Moss snorting cocaine, follow up stories suggested Moss had a long-standing lesbian affair with best friend Frost. The stories also suggested that Moss had had drug fuelled sex sessions with both Frost and Sadie's then husband Jude Law several times, and that she has also been involved in lesbian threesomes with Frost and Taylor at Claridges hotel during the model's 31st birthday.^{[13] [14]}

In light of the allegations, Moss suffered with the cancelation of several high profile modelling contracts, Taylor booked into rehab suffering from "acute depression" after tabloids reported that she had slept with Frost's then boyfriend Barry Smith;^{[15] [16]} while Frost's divorce from Law gained momentum. Frost and Moss are still close, but the relationship was parodied in the comedy Star Stories; Taylor returned to live in Manchester with her husband.

Filmography

• Empire State (1987)
• Diamond Skulls (1989)
• The Krays (1990)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• Splitting Heirs (1993)
• Shopping (1994)
• A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
• Crimetime (1996)
• Flypaper (1997)
• Bent (1997)
• An Ideal Husband (1998)
• Final Cut (1998)
• Presence of Mind (1999)
• Captain Jack (1999)
• Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
• Rancid Aluminium (2000)
• Soul Patrol (2000)
• Uprising (2001)

References

External links

• Sadie Frost at IMDb
• Sadie Frost Charity Information