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Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969) is an American musician and the lead vocalist of the band Marilyn Manson. His current name is formed from the names Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson.

EARLY LIFE
Marilyn Manson was born in Canton, Ohio. He attended Heritage Christian School, but was alienated by what he saw as hypocrisy, and a religion that seemed to teach fear more than it taught virtues; sermons prophesying the Apocalypse had a lasting effect upon his outlook. After transferring and later graduating from Canton’s GlenOak High School, Brian and his family moved to Boca Raton, Florida. While living in Boca Raton, he studied journalism and theater at Broward Community College, and became the assistant entertainment editor of BCC’s student newspaper, the Observer.

PRIVATE LIFE

Those close to Manson give a mixed impression of his personality. While parents Barbara and Hugh often expressed great pride in their son’s career, Manson has a history of strained and destructive relationships.

ROMANCE

Manson has been linked to or involved with Melissa “Missi” Romero, Traci Lords. After a series of reports and insights into his private life, Manson was engaged to Rose McGowan, but their relationship ended around the time he became involved with burlesque dancer and adult model, Dita Von Teese.

MARRAIGE

Manson and Von Teese started dating on Manson’s 32nd birthday, and Manson proposed four years later on 22 March 2004. On 3 December 2005, the couple were married in a non-denominational ceremony at Gurteen Castle in Kilsheelan, County Tipperary, Ireland,^[2] the home of Gottfried Helnwein. The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director and comic book writer Alejandro Jodorowsky. Teese wore a royal purple silk taffeta gown by Vivienne Westwood, complete with train and petticoats worn over a Mr. Pearl couture corset, topped off by a tricorne hat by Stephen Jones, while Manson wore a John Galliano black silk taffeta tuxedo with velvet trim and a hat also crafted by Stephen Jones. They reportedly exchanged vows in front of approximately 60 guests, including burlesque dancer Catherine Delish, Lisa Marie Presley, Eric Szmanda, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, David Lynch, Jessicka and Christian Hejnal. Vogue magazine ran a multiple-page feature on the wedding in its February 2006 issue. Just before his own wedding, Manson criticized Britney Spears’s wedding to Kevin Federline, in which they celebrated by wearing personalized tracksuits: “If you’re going to do something like getting married, it should have a sense of celebration to it. It should be grand and not in tracksuits!”

CAREER

IN MUSIC
Manson convinced long time friend Jessicka (Jack Off Jill, Scarling.) to start a riot grrl-esque band, which he later dubbed Jack Off Jill. He not only produced most of the bands early recordings but also played guitar on the song My Cat. Jack Off Jill went to open most of his South Florida shows. This was mirrored when Trent Reznor did the same for Manson on a much larger scale years later.

Manson has helped or provided full scores for several major motion pictures, although several of his pieces have been cut, and his name dropped from the credits. Some of his more notable soundtrack score contributions include From Hell, The Matrix and Resident Evil.

Manson appeared as a guest on rapper DMX’s album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood for the track “The Omen”, produced by Swizz Beats, and has performed (with the rest of the band) on stage with Eminem as background music in the song “The Way I Am”.

Manson sang vocals on “Break You Down” off of the Washington, DC-based industrial rock band Godhead’s 2000 Years of Human Error album. This album is distinguished for being the only one released on Manson’s vanity label Posthuman.

IN FILM AND TELEVISION

Marilyn Manson’s cameo in the Murderdolls video“Dead in Hollywood”

Manson made a cameo appearance as a doctor in the Murderdolls’ music video “Dead in Hollywood”, and also appears in the Nine Inch Nails music video “Starsuckers, Inc.”

His first appearance in a film was in the role of a pornographic actor in David Lynch’s Lost Highway, in 1997. He also had a minor role in former love interest Rose McGowan’s 1998 film Jawbreaker and a supporting role in 2003’s Party Monster. Manson made a cameo appearance in a short film in the BMW Films series (starring Clive Owen as the Driver), which featured James Brown as himself, and Gary Oldman as Satan. His most talked-about film cameo was in the Michael Moore political documentary Bowling for Columbine discussing the motivations of the perpetrators and allegations that his music was somehow a factor. Marilyn Manson was considered for the role of Dr Jonathon Crane/The Scarecrow in Batman Begins. He played himself, in animated form, on an episode of the television series Clone High, in which he sang a song about nutrition and the food pyramid.

Manson was featured in the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and is set to appear in Abelcain, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Living Neon Dreams in 2005. He will also be seen as a bartender in an upcoming vampire movie starring Lucy Liu called Rise.

In July 2005, Manson told Rolling Stone Magazine that he was shifting his focus from music to filmmaking – “I just don’t think the world is worth putting music into right now. I no longer want to make art that other people–particularly record companies–are turning into a product. I just want to make art.”

He is currently working on his directorial debut, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, which is scheduled to appear on his website by the end of 2006. The film is said to feature special effects using a magician rather than computer-generated imagery.

Filmography

• Lost Highway (Acting, 1997)
• Jawbreaker (Acting, 1999)
• From Hell (Score, 2001)
• Not Another Teen Movie (Score, 2001)
• Resident Evil (Score, 2002)
• Bowling for Columbine (Guest Appearance, 2002)
• The Hire: Beat The Devil (Acting, 2003)
• Party Monster (Acting, 2003)
• Doppelherz (Director, 2003)
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Acting, 2004)
• Living Neon Dreams (Acting, 2006)
• Rise (Acting, 2006)
• PHANTASMAGORIA: The Visions Of Lewis Carroll (Acting, Directing, Writing, Score, 2006)

IN ART
Manson is also an accomplished watercolor painter. An exhibit for his art was held at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions on September 13, September 14, 2002 and also at the Hotel Lutecia, Paris on September 14, 2004 and the next day in Berlin. He contributed a piece to the West Memphis Three benefit exhibition at six spaces. Many of his paintings have sold for over $5,000; buyers include Jack Osbourne, Nicolas Cage, Dave Navarro, Andy Dick and Lisa Marie Presley. He has stated that a new book containing all his pieces of art work will be released in the near future, possibly 2006.

Writing

• The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1998)

IN OTHER AREAS
In the 2005 first-person shooter Area 51, Manson provides voice talents (an alien named Edgar), alongside David Duchovny and Twiggy Ramirez. Marilyn Manson is featured as a playable character in the video game MTV Celebrity Deathmatch.

TRIVIA

• Manson bears the title of “Reverend” in Anton Lavey’s Church of Satan.

• Posed nude for photos prior to his rise to fame. The pictures appeared in the March 1999 issue of Honcho.
• Manson makes a very small cameo in the show Mission Hill. While Kevin French is at the red carpet for the Grammy Awards, a man in risque, S&M-like clothing strolls in the background with a leashed monkey.
• Marilyn Manson is spoofed in Relient K’s song “My Girlfreind” and in Self’s “KiDdies”.

source: en.wikipedia.org