Ovidie
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Ovidie in 2014.
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| Born |
25 August 1980 France |
| Nationality | French |
| Height | 5 ft 9.25 in (1.76 m) |
| Website | http://www.metronews.fr/blog/ovidie/ |
| No. of adult films | 26 as a performer & 15 as a director (per IAFD) |
Ovidie is a French director, producer, journalist and writer. She used to be a feminist pornographic actress from 1999 to 2003.
Ovidie refused to give her real name to the press. Her parents are liberals from "a good family background" who were teachers in 2003. She was married; her husband left a teaching position at the University of Paris to edit a pornographic magazine. They later divorced, but her job was not a factor in the divorce.
Ovidie has denied entering the pornography industry for either sex or money, describing herself as middle class. Her involvement in dance and choreography, and her interest in expression of the human body, played a part in attracting her to the industry.
At the time that Ovidie became an pornographic actor, she described herself as a "very active militant feminist". She first viewed pornography to get a sense of the injustice that was being perpetrated on female industry workers. She found herself surprised when female porn stars, who she once felt sorry for, impressed her with their powerful sexual images. Wanting to attain this same kind of sexual strength, which seemed compatible with feminist ideals, she began acting in pornographic films. She told The Times Magazine "I am interested in these sort of experiences not just because I am perverse, which as you have seen I can be when I want to be. No, it's because not everyone can achieve them."
Holding a degree in philosophy, Ovidie has been nicknamed L'intello du porno ("the porn-star intellectual"). She said that she only studied philosophy so that she could understand porn. In 2012, she wrote Sexe Philo, in collaboration with philosophy Ph.D. Francis Métivier
Ovidie was an active porn performer until 2003, when she was featured in the porn/mainstream crossover film All About Anna. She has also been active as a porn director, both during her years as a performer and afterward. After only one year of performing, her first film as a director, Orgie en Noir (2000), was produced by Marc Dorcel. Since then, she has directed a number of women-friendly videos for Marc Dorcel, Blue One, VCommunications, and Canal +. She is considered as a specialist of porn made by women, for women. In May 2008, she started directing videos for the sex education channel FrenchLover TV. As of 12 March 2011[update], she was FrenchLover TV's Program Director. She also used to host a weekly talk show on the channel. She left the company in October 2015 to focus on her career as a journalist. She has worked for Radio France, Council of The European Union Metronews, France 2, and Canal +.
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