Toyah has had a diverse career which not only includes her 13 Top 40 singles and a No.1 album 'Anthem', but also a variety of acting and presenting roles.
Toyah Willcox began acting before she launched her music career. After starting out at the Old Rep Drama School in Birmingham, Toyah Willcox took the role of Emma in Tales from Vienna Woods in the National Theatre in 1977. A year later Toyah appeared as Mad in Derek Jarman's Jubilee, Bessie Watty in Cukor's The Corn is Green, and Monkey in Quadrophenia.
At roughly the same time Toyah Willcox launched into the music world. Her band officially formed on 12 June 1977. It was a busy period for Toyah who was also presenting Look Here on the BBC.
At the tail end of the seventies and through the eighties, Toyah's music became more prominent than her acting. This period proved commercially successful, however in the late eighties Toyah had a yearning to be more experimental with her music.
In 1987 She formed a full-time band project Fripp fripp with husband Robert Fripp - they changed their name in 1989 to Sunday All Over the World. The 1990s saw Toyah come full circle with acting and presenting emerging to rival the importance of music in her life. Toyah Willcox presented on shows like Holiday, Songs of Praise and Watchdog.
In 2002 Toyah Willcox joined local residents protesting in Worcestershire against one of three planned accommodation centers for asylum seekers. In 2003 Toyah Willcox had a long-standing role as Calamity Jane. She also appeared in ITV's "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"
