Christy Canyon

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Christy Canyon

Canyon at the F.O.X.E. Awards in February 2006
Born (1966-06-17) June 17, 1966[1]
Pasadena, California, United States
Other names Christie Canyon, Cristy Canyon, Missy, Tara White, Sara Wine, Tara Wine, Linda Daniel, DeeDee
Ethnicity Armenian/Italian[2]
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight 130 lb (59 kg; 9.3 st)
No. of adult films 119 (+139 compilations)[2]
Website
http://www.christycanyon.com

Christy Canyon (born June 17, 1966)[1] is an American radio personality, AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee, and retired pornographic actress.

Career

Canyon has performed in over 100 adult films and effectively "retired" from performing in-front-of-the-camera three times, as she shot films from September 1984 to March 1985; June 1989 to December 1992; and, 1995 to 1997 (as an exclusive/contract performer for Vivid).

In her autobiography, Canyon stated that porn actor 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 adult magazine and film recruiter/agent Jim South, of World Modeling Agency.[3] After visiting South's office she posed for men's magazines and 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 in the business.

In a 2005 interview on Taylor Wane's radio show, Canyon stated that 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.[4]

From 2005 to March 2011 she was co-host of Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Playboy Radio show Night Calls.[5][6] 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.[7] She was co-host of Radio Sex You Porn on Sirius/XM Channel 102, until October 2013 when the channel went off the air. Since December 2013, she is now host of the Christy Canyon Show on Vivid Radio on Sirius/XM Channel 102.

Retirement

Canyon is retired from performing in adult films and dancing on the road, but she still has an adult-related career, concentrating on her web site, working as a host for Vivid 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.

Canyon is featured in a 2010 interview on the ABC news show Nightline in a segment titled Porn: When the Camera Stops as part of the series Modern Sex in America.[8]

Recognition

Canyon has won several "best female performance"-type awards and is a member of both the XRCO and AVN Halls of Fame.

The music group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark mentions Canyon in the song "Heaven Is" from 1993's Liberator. [9]

Canyon is also one of twenty-five women of the golden era of adult films featured in the 2012 book, by author Jill C. Nelson, entitled: Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985, published by BearManor Media.[10]

Personal life

Canyon was born in California to an Armenian-American father and an Italian-American mother. She has been married and divorced three times and is the mother of two adopted children.[11]

Awards

Partial filmography

  • I Like To Be Watched (1984)
  • 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

See also

  • List of porn stars

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Canyon, Christy (2004). Lights, Camera, Sex!. Canyon Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-9727470-0-4. "June 17th, 1984. I woke up alone on my eighteenth birthday." 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Christy Canyon - biography filmography". iafd.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30. 
  3. ↑ Canyon, Christy (2004). Lights, Camera, Sex!. p. 23. 
  4. ↑ Christy Canyon & Taylor Wane Swap Guy Yarns
  5. ↑ "Playboy Radio". Archived from the original on Mar 26, 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  6. ↑ "Night Calls". Dogstar Radio. Retrieved 2008-06-19. 
  7. ↑ Spice Radio
  8. ↑ Staff. "Porn: When the Camera Stops". ABC News via YouTube. Retrieved 29 January 2014. 
  9. ↑ "Lyrics for "Heaven Is" on the official OMD website". Retrieved 2008-03-28. 
  10. ↑ by Jill C. Nelson. Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985 (First edition ed.). BearManor Media. ISBN 9781593932985. 
  11. ↑ Modesti, Kevin (14 February 2009). "For Vivid Celebration, A Star Is Porn Again". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 31 December 2013. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Adult Video Awards". CanBest.com. Archived from the original on Feb 5, 2003. Retrieved Dec 23, 2007. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Past AVN Award Winners". Archived from the original on Jan 27, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-23. 
  14. ↑ "AVN Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-23. 
  15. ↑ "XRCO Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2007-12-23. 
  16. ↑ http://business.avn.com/articles/video/A-Full-Deck-Of-Legends-At-Night-Of-The-Stars-35555.html
  17. ↑ "Legends of Erotica". Retrieved 2008-09-21. 
  18. ↑ "Sex and Free Speech, Renaissance Style". Retrieved 2009-10-14. 

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