Katalin Vad
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Katalin Vad (born 16 January 1980), known by her stage name Michelle Wild<ref name="Michelle Wild AFDB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (vad literally meaning "wild" in Hungarian), is a Hungarian actress<ref name=autogenerated1>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and former pornographic actress who worked mainly for Private Media Group (international) and LUXx Video (Hungary).<ref name="Michelle Wild IAFD" />
Career
Her first adult film, Sex Opera, was shot in 2001, and she subsequently worked repeatedly with the same company, Private Media Group, and the director Kovi, producing such adult films as Brides & Bitches and The Sex Secrets of the Paparazzi.<ref name="Michelle Wild IAFD" /> She has also worked with such prominent porn directors as John Leslie (Crack Her Jack 1) and Rocco Siffredi (Animal Trainer 5).<ref name="Michelle Wild IAFD" />
In 2003, Private produced a semi-documentary-style adult film entitled The Private Life of Michelle Wild.<ref name="Michelle Wild IAFD" /> The film featured snippets of Wild speaking about her desires, interspersed with scenes from her previous films.<ref name="Michelle Wild AFDB" />
She had a regular column in the men's magazine FHM and co-hosted a late night radio talk show. She met her future husband, a cocktail bartender, when he was a guest on her radio show.<ref>Megújult az FHM Template:In lang</ref>
She played "Ivett Janovics", a nurse in a hospital-themed daily soap opera called Jóban Rosszban ("Good Times, Bad Times") on Hungary's TV2.<ref name="Michelle Wild AFDB" /><ref>origo.hu: Michelle Wild a Jóban Rosszban csapatában Template:In lang</ref><ref name="For Better or Worse">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Since her retirement from the adult business and the birth of her daughter, she has said, in several interviews in Hungary, that she has completely changed and, although she does not deny her past, she would not take the porn actress road again.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2009, she appeared in the documentary The Outsiders, which looks at the artists who "challenge the extremes of sexuality in art".<ref name="The Outsiders">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Awards and nominations
- 2003 Venus Award winner – Best Actress (Hungary)<ref name="Michelle Wild AFDB" /><ref>2003 Venus Award winners</ref><ref name="Venus Awards - 2003">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2003 Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival Ninfa Award winner – Best Supporting Actress (Hot Rats)<ref name=autogenerated1 />
- 2004 European X Award winner – Best Actress (Germany)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2004 AVN Award winner – Best Tease Performance (Crack Her Jack 1)<ref name="Michelle Wild AFDB" /><ref name="2004 Winners">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Partial mainstream filmography
- A Bus Came... (2003), as "The Girl" in the segment "No Comment"
- La memoria de los peces (2004), as "Pamela"
- Nomen est Omen avagy Reszkess Szabó János! (2004)
- Rom-Mánia (2004)
- Dobogó kövek (2010)