Stephanie Swift | |
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Stephanie Swift at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
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Born |
Louisiana, United States |
February 7, 1972
Other names | China Cat, Melody |
Height | 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) |
Weight | 110 lb (50 kg) |
No. of adult films | 425 as a performer 2 as director (per IAFD) |
Stephanie Swift (born February 7, 1972) is a former American pornographic actress who starred in over 300 adult movies between 1995 and 2009, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and left the industry. She is a member of both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Swift now works with XXXchurch.com, a Christian outreach group that offers to help pornographic actors leave the industry and help compulsive porn users overcome their porn addiction.
Swift spent her childhood in Louisiana. She is one-quarter Filipino. Between the ages of one and fourteen, she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of family members. At the age of 19, she lived in San Diego, California and worked as a stripper for six months at a club called The Body Shop
After earning her degree, she posed in nude modelling photographs for five years and was featured in Club International. Swift segued from nude model work to Southern California's adult film industry, where she began her career in 1995. Her first softcore scene was in Playboy TV's Up Close and Dangerous. Her first hardcore sex scene was in Space Sirens. She went on to win several awards, including the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award in 1998. She was, for a period, a contract girl with Wicked Pictures.