Toyah Willcox

Quick Facts

Full Name	Toyah Willcox
Occupation	Punk Singer
Date Of Birth	May 18, 1958(1958-05-18)
Age	66
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Toyah Willcox Biography

Toyah Willcox is one of the most popular and richest Punk Singer who was born on May 18, 1958 in England, England, United Kingdom. Singer of the new wave hits “I Want to Be Free” and “Thunder in the Mountains.” She was the frontwoman of the band Toyah.

She played a role in the 1979 film Quadrophenia, which also starred Phil Daniels.

Toyah Ann Willcox (born 18 May 1958) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, actress, producer, author and storyteller. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Willcox has had 8 top 40 singles, released over 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and 10 feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows.

Since Willcox’s move to London in the mid-1970s, her acting and musical careers developed in parallel, causing lots of misunderstanding. “I think people found me either fake, or couldn’t put me in a compartment”, Willcox later commented on the way her work in theatre and the reputation of “high priestess of punk” collided. In 1980 writer Paul Morley described Willcox’s roles as having had “great attraction” and being “bright boosts”. Solidly established (“and undeniably hot”, in Morley’s words), she had at the time much less credit as a musician, desperately wanting, meanwhile, her music to be as accepted as her acting. On the way those two worlds interacted, Willcox’s commented: “It’s difficult to compare the two worlds and say why you’re doing both. I generally just do whatever I want to do next. I’m still the one person about, I think, who’s managed to keep the two careers completely separate. Very little of my music gets involved with my acting, and I wouldn’t like it to. I like doing both music and acting. I get a lot of inspiration from acting and the music. Doing a play like this leaves the days free to work on music. It’s just perfect. I need to work day and night time, so having both enables me to do that.”

She married Robert Fripp of King Crimson in 1986.

Toyah Willcox Net Worth

Toyah Willcox is one of the richest Punk Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Toyah Willcox 's net worth $15 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was an aspiring young actress, appearing in films like Jubilee.

She was born with a twisted spine, clawed feet, no hip sockets, and a leg two inches shorter than the other.

Willcox was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham. Her father Beric Willcox ran a successful joinery business and owned three factories. Her mother Barbara Joy, née Rollinson, was a professional dancer, with whom he fell in love after seeing her on stage in Weston-super-Mare with Flanagan and Allen and married in 1949. Barbara had to give up her career after giving birth to Nicola (born 1950) and Kim (born 1953), Willcox’s elder sister and brother, respectively.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Toyah Willcox height 5 feet 1 inches weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Toyah Willcox Dating?

According to our records, Toyah Willcox married to Robert Fripp. As of December 1, 2023, Toyah Willcox’s is not dating anyone.

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In mid-1977, a National Theatre actor, Ian Charleson (best known for his later role in Chariots of Fire), thought that Willcox was someone that his friend, film director Derek Jarman, should meet, and took her to tea on Tregunter Road in Fulham at Derek’s flat. The director picked up the script of what later proved to be a seminal punk epic, Jubilee (called Down with the Queen at the time), and said: “it’s a punk movie and I don’t know what we’re going to call it. But it’s fun, it’s anarchic”, and threw it on Willcox’s lap, saying: “Pick any part you want”. “So I picked Mad because she had the most lines in the film. And Derek then said: ‘Of all the characters, if any have to be cut because of lack of money, it’s going to be Mad. Because she is superficial, she doesn’t serve a purpose’, and I said: ‘How wonderfully anarchic; I still want it'”, Willcox remembered. In a month’s time, he did have to cut Mad from the film, but, seeing Willcox greatly upset, gave up his fee on the film so that she could play the role she was craving. “After that, Derek became like a surrogate father, because he knew what it was like to go hungry and so did I”, Willcox recalled. Later she cited Jarman as one of her greatest inspirations: “Derek Jarman I just love to death because he had no compromise. We went hungry when we made Jubilee. Derek literally had nothing to eat halfway through the film; he completely ran out of money. There was nothing in the coffers, and he just refused to sell out and have any form of advertising or any form of sponsorship. Everything offered to him might have diluted the message of the film he turned down. So his spirit I feel very fond of. He was a great man.”

Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Punk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Toyah Willcox celebrates birthday on May 18 of every year.

In London, Willcox lived in a place called “Mayhem”, the converted British Rail warehouse serving as a studio that started off as a “sort of over ambitious multi-media idea and the whole idea was for anyone to go in there and try and create something”, according to Willcox. It was there that the band Toyah recorded their first demos. For the lack of proper bed she slept for a while in a “second-hand” coffin, reportedly used by the French Red Cross to transport victims of fatal accidents. While doing the film Quadrophenia (1979) Willcox was getting a lot of press and the band was doing well. Up to two thousand people would turn out at gigs, which were huge crowds for an unsigned band. They did a showcase for Safari Records and the label promptly signed them. “Which amazed me, because I’m a live performer, I need my audience, I need my interaction and we were performing in a small rehearsal studio that smelt of beer and piss. But this worked well. It meant I could go back to Quadrophenia and say to Sting: ‘I’ve just been signed!'” Willcox remembered. The band had its first success with the debut single “Victims of the Riddle”, which topped the UK Indie Charts. Then came the Sheep Farming in Barnet EP, produced by Steve James and Keith Hale. Initially released in Germany, in 1979 it was re-released as an LP, comprising the original six tracks, “Victims of the Riddle” A and B sides and three tracks that were previously unavailable on vinyl. Willcox’s second album, The Blue Meaning, went up to no. 40 in the UK Albums Chart in June 1980. By this time she severed all ties with punk aesthetics. “I don’t use punk whatsoever because my philosophies are so different, my morals are so straight. I’m not a punk, I’m a modern woman”, Willcox said in a 1980 TV interview.

Who is Robert Fripp Toyah?

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are a rock star couple turned lockdown YouTubers. Actor and musician Willcox, 64, rocketed to fame during the punk rock era, appearing in cult movies such as Quadrophenia, before releasing 80s hits such as It’s a Mystery.

Does Toyah Wilcox live with her husband?

She revealed that she and Mr Fripp have a house each , so although they spend a great deal of their time together, they also have somewhere to escape to. She said: “We live in the same house now, but we used to have two separate houses.

How old is Toyah?

64 years (May 18, 1958)

How tall is Toyah?

5′ 1″

Where was Toyah born?

Toyah lived in the suburb of Woree, in Cairns , which is the fifth most populous city in all of Queensland and the fourteenth most populated city in Australia. Toyah’s parents – Troy and Vanessa – would separate when she was young, but both would remarry.