Sadie Frost

Sadie Frost
Frost in the short film Fortune's Smile in 2015
Born
Sadie Liza Vaughan

(1965-06-19) 19 June 1965 (age 58)
London, England
Alma materItalia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
OccupationActress
Years active1979–present
Spouses
  • (m. 1988; div. 1995)
  • (m. 1997; div. 2003)
Children4
Parent

Sadie Liza Frost (née Vaughan; born 19 June 1965) is an English actress, producer and fashion designer. Her credits as an actress include Empire State (1987), Diamond Skulls, also known as Dark Obsession (1989), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Krays (1990), Magic Hunter (1994), Shopping (1994), A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995), Flypaper (1997), Final Cut (1998), Captain Jack (1999), Love, Honour and Obey (2000), Beyond the Rave (2008), Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015), and A Bird Flew In (2021).

Early life

Frost was born in Islington, North London, in 1965 to psychedelic artist David Vaughan, who worked for the Beatles, and 16-year-old actress Mary Davidson.

She has described her childhood as a "chaotic but positive experience". She spent much of her youth in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, after her parents separated. Her parents had six relationships between them, which gave her ten siblings, including fellow actresses Holly Davidson and Jade Davidson; primary school teacher Jessi Frost; brothers called Gabriel Jupiter and Tobias Vaughan; and a sister named Sunshine Purple Tara Velvet.

Frost attained a scholarship to attend the Italia Conti Academy. In 2019, she furthered her education, by taking a master’s degree in film production.

Career

Frost's debut film role was in Empire State (1987), in a cast which included Martin Landau. She played the part of Rebecca in the 1989 film Diamond Skulls (also known as Dark Obsession), alongside Amanda Donohoe, and Gabriel Byrne. She later purported that this role paved the way for her film appearance was as the beautiful, ill-fated Lucy Westenra in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

In the early 90s, she appeared in music videos, including for Pulp's song "Common People", Planet Perfecto featuring Grace's "Not Over Yet '99", various productions for Spandau Ballet, where she met first husband Gary Kemp. During their marriage, they appeared together in two films, The Krays (1990), and Magic Hunter (1994).

In 1994, Frost met her future husband when she took a role opposite Jude Law in Paul W. S. Anderson's directorial film debut Shopping. Frost and Law were to appear together again in the British gangster comedy Love, Honour and Obey (2000), alongside Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee, Denise Van Outen, and Rhys Ifans.

In 1997, Frost and Law co-founded the production company Natural Nylon, along with others including Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, and Sean Pertwee. After six years the company closed down. In 1999, Frost co-founded the fashion label Frost French with her friend Jemima French.

In 2004, she wrote, presented, and produced a short-lived series What Sadie did next... for E4, and in 2006 appeared in Eating with... Sadie Frost on BBC2, to talk about her switch to vegetarianism.

Frost has been a member of the jury at the British Independent Film Awards, on two occasions, 1999 and 2022.

Personal life

Frost had an eating disorder in her youth. In 1981, when 16 and dancing in a music video, Frost met Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp. They married on 7 May 1988. Their son, Finlay, was born in 1990. Frost and Kemp were married for seven years and divorced on 19 August 1995.

Frost met Jude Law during the work on the 1994 film Shopping. They married in September 1997. and have three children: son Rafferty (born 1996), daughter Iris (born 2000), and son Rudy (born 2002). Frost and Law divorced on 29 October 2003. Frost named model Kate Moss as Iris's godmother and BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw as Rudy's godfather.

Frost maintains never to have been a party animal, having been too busy being a mother, and she has maintained a healthy lifestyle of exercise, yoga, and being a vegetarian.

Frost was a victim of the News International phone hacking scandal, after it was found that they intruded on her private life, damaged her reputation as a successful businesswoman, and caused embarrassment and humiliation on issues that would have been kept private. She received an apology from Mirror Group Newspapers, and was awarded damages.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1987 Empire State
1989 Diamond Skulls (also known as Dark Obsession) Rebecca
1990 The Krays Sharon Pellam
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula Lucy Westenra
1993 Splitting Heirs Angela
1994 Shopping Jo
1994 Magic Hunter Eva
1995 A Pyromaniac's Love Story Hattie
1996 Crimetime
1997 Bent
1998 Final Cut Sadie
1999 Captain Jack Tessa
1999 Flypaper
1999 Presence of Mind
2000 An Ideal Husband Mrs. Laura Cheveley
2000 Rancid Aluminium
2000 Love, Honour and Obey Sadie
2007 Shoot on Sight
2008 The Heavy Dutch
2008 Beyond the Rave Fallen Angel
2014 Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey. Beautiful Woman
2014 The Confusion of Tongues Herself
2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism Mrs. Alabaster
2015 Set the Thames on Fire Mrs Hortense
2019 Nocturnal Jean
2020 Waiting for Anya Madame Jollet
2021 A Bird Flew In Diane
2021 Quant Director
2023 Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance Jan
TBA Boxed-Up Eileen In pre-production
TBA The Chelsea Cowboy Cissy Bindon In post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1989 Press Gang Jenny Eliot 2 episodes
1990 A Ghost in Monte Carlo Television film
2001 Uprising Zivia Lubetkin Television film

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