Toyah

Toyah Ann Willcox was born in Birmingham, England on May 18, 1958, and trained as an actress at the Old Rep Drama School. She was launched as an anti-establishment figure when she appeared in two cutting-edge films in the late '70s: Jubilee, the punk rock movie directed by Derek Jarman in which she played a character named Mad, and the Who's mod film version of their early-'70s rock opera album Quadrophenia, in which she played the equally bizarrely named character Monkey. She moved on to front a punk rock band named Toyah, which featured Joel Bogen on guitar, Mark Henry on ba...