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BIOGRAPHY
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Birth
location Pasadena, California, U.S. Measurements 36DD[2]-24-36
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) Weight 130 lb (59 kg; 9.3 st) Eye colour
Brown Hair colour Brown Ethnicity Armenian American Italian American
Alias(es) Christie Canyon, Cristy Canyon, Missy, Tara White, Sara
Wine, Tara Wine, Linda Daniel, DeeDeen
Christy
Canyon (born on June 17, 1966 in Pasadena, California, U.S.) is
a retired American pornographic actress and current radio personality.
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. She is known for her natural
36DD breasts. 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. In her personal life, Canyon
has dated directors John Frankenheimer and Adam Rifkin. As of
2008 she works on Sirius Satellite Radio's Playboy Radio as cohost,
with Nicki Hunter, of the show Night Calls.
Retirement
Canyon retired and returned to films several times during her
career, mainly due to changes in her marital status. Currently,
she is retired from performing in films, but still has an adult-related
career, concentrating on her web site, working as a host for Playboy
Radio, and selling merchandise on eBay. In 2003, she published
her autobiography: 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.
Cultural
references
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The music group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark mentions Christy
in the song "Heaven Is" from 1993's Liberator ("Heaven is Christy
Canyon falling in love with me").
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In an episode of the FOX TV Show Millennium (TV series), second
season (2-8, The Hand of St. Sebastian), Christy's (non-nude)
image was shown when Frank Black's computer hacker infiltrated
a fictional "Christy's" website.
Awards
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1991 F.O.X.E Female Fan Favorite
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1992 F.O.X.E Female Fan Favorite
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1996 AVN Best Tease Performance for Comeback
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1997 AVN Best Group Scene - Film for The Show
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AVN Hall of Fame
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XRCO Hall of Fame
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Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award .
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