Dany Verissimo | |
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Born |
Vitry-sur-Seine (South Paris), France |
June 27, 1982
Other names | Dany Verisimo-Petit Dany Verisimo Petit |
Years active | 2000 - Present |
Spouse(s) | Jesse Salto (July 12, 2005 – February 28, 2010) Rodolphe Verissimo (November 10, 2001 – March 29, 2005) (divorced) |
Website | danyverissimo |
Ally Mac Tyana | |
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Other names | Ally Verissimo Ally MacTanya |
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 97 (44 kg) |
No. of adult films | 4 (approx.) |
Dany Verissimo, also known by her former stage name Ally Mac Tyana (born June 27, 1982), is a French actress, model and retired pornographic performer.
The child of a Malagasy mother and a French father who was a financial director at Air France, Verissimo spent her childhood in France, the United States, and Nigeria. She began performing in pornography at 18 and a half years old, starring in films by John B. Root, the adult film director who she worked with exclusively through her entire 16-month adult film career. During this time, she called herself "Ally Mac Tyana", which was a play on the name Ally McBeal, and performed in gangbang and anal sex scenes. She appeared in such adult videos as Ally, French Beauty and Xperiment, and on Root's website Explicite.com.
In 2002 she had her first non-erotic film roles, as an extra in So Long Mister Monroe and an appearance on an episode of the French police drama Brigade des mineurs. In 2004, she was cast as Lola in the film Banlieue 13, a role specially created for her by producer Luc Besson.
After a succession of minor roles in May 2006 she appeared in ELLE magazine's "Cannes Special Edition", where she was recognized as one of the new upcoming actresses. She was cast as Belkis in C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle ("It's Gradiva who is calling you"; released in the U.S. in 2009), a film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, who declared about Verissimo: "She surprises by her generosity and the strength of her presence". The film was shown out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in September 2006.