Christy Canyon

Christy Canyon
Christy Canyon

Christy Canyon at the FOXE Awards in 2006
Born June 17, 1966 (1966-06-17) (age 45)[1]
Pasadena, California, United States
Alias(es) Christie Canyon, Cristy Canyon, Missy, Tara White, Sara Wine, Tara Wine, Linda Daniel, DeeDee
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight 130 lb (59 kg; 9.3 st)
Eye colour Brown
Hair colour Brown
Ethnicity Armenian, Italian
Official website

Christy Canyon (born on June 17, 1966[1] in Pasadena, California, United States) is the professional name of a retired American pornographic actress and current radio personality.

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Adult film career

Canyon appeared in nearly 200 adult films. Canyon has won several "best female performance" awards and is a member of the XRCO and AVN Halls of Fame. She retired from (and returned to) the adult business several times. In 1999, AVN rated her as one of the top twenty-five adult stars of all time. She is known for her natural 36DD breasts.[2]

In her autobiography, Canyon stated that adult performer Greg Rome approached her while she was waiting for a ride in Hollywood and told her that she would be a terrific figure model. He gave her the business card of porn recruiter and agent Jim South of World Modeling Talent Agency.[3] After visiting South's office she posed for men's magazines, and she began her video career shortly thereafter. She has stated that her first on-screen performance was with Ron Jeremy in 1984's "Swedish Erotica 57," and that Jeremy soon became a close friend within the business. Her pictures appeared in Celebrity Sleuth magazine, as well as Penthouse, Hustler, and dozens of other men's magazines.

In a 2005 interview on Taylor Wane's radio show, Canyon stated that although on-camera she had protected sex (with condoms) with all of her male co-stars during her time with Vivid Entertainment in the mid 1990s, this was definitely not something she practiced in her private life. Canyon stated that she engaged in unprotected sex with every one of her male co-stars off camera, prior to their filmed sex scenes.[4] In her personal life, Canyon has dated directors John Frankenheimer, and Adam Rifkin.[5] From 2005 to March 2011, she was co-host of Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Playboy Radio show Night Calls.[6][7] As of April 2011, she became co-host of Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Spice Sex Circus with Ginger Lynn, and sole host of Sirius XM Satellite Radio's weekly Legends of Porn. See http://www.siriusxm.com/spiceradio

Partial filmography

  • Hollywood Starlets (1985)
  • Educating Mandy (1985)
  • Black Throat (1985)
  • Holly Does Hollywood (1985)
  • Star 90 (1990)
  • Passages 1-4 (1991)
  • Comeback (1995)
  • Oral Addiction (1996)
  • Domination Nation 1 and 2 (both 1997)
  • The Top 25 Adult Stars of All Time (1999)

Retirement

Canyon is retired from performing in films and dancing on the road, but still has an adult-related career, concentrating on her web site, working as a host for Spice Radio, and selling merchandise on eBay and ABIBIDS. In 2003, she published her autobiography: Lights, Camera, Sex (ISBN 0-9727470-0-1) which is still in print. In November 2005, she appeared as a judge on the first season of Jenna's American Sex Star.[8]

Awards

  • 1991 F.O.X.E Female Fan Favorite[9]
  • 1992 F.O.X.E Female Fan Favorite[9]
  • 1996 AVN Best Tease Performance for Comeback[10]
  • 1997 AVN Best Group Scene - Film for The Show[10]
  • AVN Hall of Fame[11]
  • XRCO Hall of Fame[12]
  • 2004 Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award [13]

See also

  • List of porn stars

References

  1. ^ a b Canyon, Christy (2004). Lights, Camera, Sex!. Canyon Publishing. pp. 34. ISBN 978-0972747004. "June 17th, 1984. I woke up alone on my eighteenth birthday." 
  2. ^ Canyon, Christy (2004). Lights, Camera, Sex!. pp. 4. 
  3. ^ Canyon, Christy (2004). Lights, Camera, Sex!. pp. 23. 
  4. ^ Christy Canyon & Taylor Wane Swap Guy Yarns
  5. ^ Christy Canyon: I Bent Over and Something Made Its Way Down There
  6. ^ "Playboy Radio". http://www.playboy.com/playboytv/radio/popup.html#NC. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  7. ^ "Night Calls". Dogstar Radio. http://www.dogstarradio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Night_Calls. Retrieved 2008-06-19. 
  8. ^ Jenna's American Sex Star at the Internet Movie Database
  9. ^ a b "Adult Video Awards", CanBest.com. Retrieved December 23, 2007.
  10. ^ a b "Past AVN Award Winners". http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=pastwinners. Retrieved 2007-12-23. 
  11. ^ "AVN Hall of Fame". http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=halloffame. Retrieved 2007-12-23. 
  12. ^ "XRCO Hall of Fame". http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/hall.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-23. 
  13. ^ "Sex and Free Speech, Renaissance Style". http://www.laweekly.com/2004-07-29/columns/dump-bush-er-never-mind/2. Retrieved 2009-10-14. 

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