Christy Canyon
Christy Canyon | |
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| Born | June 17, 1966[1] Pasadena, California, United States |
| Website | christycanyon |
Christy Canyon (born June 17, 1966[1]) is a retired pornographic actress and American radio personality.[2] She is an inductee of the AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame.
Career
[edit]Canyon has performed in over 100 adult films. She retired from performing in front of the camera three times, having shot films from September 1984 to March 1985; June 1989 to December 1992; and 1995 to 1997 (as an exclusive/contract performer for Vivid). She also appeared in photo spreads for Penthouse and Swank magazine.
In her autobiography, Canyon stated that the pornographic 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.[1]: 23 After visiting South's office, Canyon 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.
From 2005 to March 2011, she was co-host of the Playboy Radio show Night Calls.[3][4] As of April 2011 she became co-host of Sirius XM's Spice Sex Circus with Ginger Lynn and sole host of Sirius XM's weekly Legends of Porn.[5] She co-hosted Radio Sex You Porn on Sirius/XM Channel 102, until October 2013 when the channel went off the air. In December 2013, she became the host of The Christy Canyon Show on Vivid Radio on Sirius/XM Channel 102.
Retirement
[edit]Canyon retired from performing in pornographic films in 1997.[2] She remained active in related fields, hosting Playboy Radio's Night Calls and selling memorabilia on eBay.[2] In 2003, she published her autobiography, titled Lights, Camera, Sex (ISBN 0-9727470-0-1). In November 2005, she appeared as a judge on the first season of Jenna's American Sex Star.
Canyon was interviewed for the ABC News program Nightline in 2010 for the series Modern Sex in America.[6]
Recognition
[edit]Canyon has won several "best female performance"-type awards and is a member of both the XRCO and AVN Halls of Fame.
She was namechecked by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) on their 1993 track "Heaven Is", in the line: "Heaven is Christy Canyon falling in love with me." [7]
Personal life
[edit]Canyon has been married and divorced three times and is the mother of two adopted children.[8]
Awards
[edit]- 1991 XRCO Female Performer of the Year
- 1991 F.O.X.E. Female Fan Favorite[9]
- 1992 F.O.X.E. Female Fan Favorite[9]
- 1995 XRCO Hall of Fame[10]
- 1996 AVN Best Tease Performance for Comeback[11]
- 1997 AVN Best Group Scene - Film for The Show[11]
- 1997 Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame[12]
- 1998 AVN Special Achievement Award
- AVN Hall of Fame[13]
- 2004 Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award [14]
- 2018 Vivid Hall of Fame[15]
Partial filmography
[edit]- WPINK (1984)
- I Like to Be Watched (1984)
- Wild Things (1985)
- Hollywood Starlets (1985)
- Educating Mandy (1985)
- Black Throat (1985)
- Holly Does Hollywood (1985)
- Savage Fury (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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b c Morris, Chris (5 March 2010). "Life After Porn: The Retirement Challenge". CNBC.
- ^ "Playboy Radio". Archived from the original on March 26, 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ "Night Calls". Dogstar Radio. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Spice Radio. Archived 2011-04-10 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Porn: When the Camera Stops". ABC News. 17 June 2010. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Lyrics for "Heaven Is" on the official OMD website". Archived from the original on 2016-11-09. Retrieved 2016-11-08.
- ^ Modesti, Kevin (14 February 2009). "For Vivid Celebration, A Star Is Porn Again". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- ^ a b "Adult Video Awards". CanBest.com. Archived from the original on February 5, 2003. Retrieved Dec 23, 2007.
- ^ "XRCO Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
- ^ a b "Past AVN Award Winners". Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
- ^ "A Full Deck Of "Legends" At Night Of The Stars". AVN. 20 August 1999.
- ^ "AVN Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
- ^ "Dump Bush, Er, Never Mind . . . (Sex and Free Speech, Renaissance Style)". LA Weekly (column). 29 July 2004. p. 2. Archived from the original on 5 September 2010. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ^ "Vivid Hall of Fame To Induct Veteran Adult Star Christy Canyon". AVN. 5 February 2018.
External links
[edit]
- Official website
- Christy Canyon at IMDb
- Christy Canyon at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Christy Canyon at the Adult Film Database
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