Nancy Sexton

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Nancy Sexton
Born (1969-07-08) July 8, 1969 (age 54)
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, producer, author, Voice Over Artist, Singer, songwriter, model, Fitness Instructor
Spouse
Tim J Sexton
(m. 2009)
Widowed

Nancy Sexton (born July 8, 1969 in Ragersville, Ohio), is an American filmmaker, singer-songwriter, model and TV personality.

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Life

In 2005, she started on FitTV's show, "The Gym". [1]

Her song, "It's a real World", produced by DJ Molella reached number one on the Italian Hit Parade, [2] and led to her 1997 performance in Festivalbar. [3]

Since 2006, she is the CEO and co-owner with Alon Bar of 4881 LLC, a multifaceted platform. Sexton and Alon Bar created the award-winning screenplay Type O, which was in pre-production as of 2017. Sexton also co-created the animation feature Ruby, produced by Lumiq Studios, Turin, Italy and in pre-production as of 2024. [4]

In 2011, she co-authored with Alon Bar the book Write Your Film, a screenwriting manual.

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References

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  2. "Hit Parade Italia – Indice per Anno: 1997". hitparadeitalia.it.
  3. gianni77v (December 27, 2008). "Molella & Phil Jay ft Nancy – It's A Real World (live Festivalbar1997)" via YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "Ruby". IMDb.
  5. "::: Scriptapalooza screenwriting competition :::". Archived from the original on December 24, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
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