Laure Sainclair
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Laure Sainclair ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; born 24 April 1972) is a French former adult film actress.<ref name="iafd"/>
Sainclair first worked as a model for nude photography. She eventually met pornographic actresses at an adult entertainment convention in Rennes, and decided to try her hand at the sex industry. She worked for a time as a stripper, then made her first adult film in 1995, a semi-amateur production titled Maud s'offre à toi. Her first experience was a negative one but she eventually met producer Marc Dorcel who made her his first contract performer.<ref name="adultfilmdatabase1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and "brand ambassador".<ref>Comment Marc Dorcel est devenu le prince du X Template:Webarchive, Stratégies, 20 July 1998</ref> Sainclair went on to be the most popular adult film actress in France during the second half of the 1990s.
She won several awards in Europe and also made a small number of films in the U.S.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She received Hot d'Or Awards for Best European Starlet in 1996 and for Best European Actress in 1997<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and 1998<ref>5ème cérémonie des Hot d'Or Template:Webarchive</ref> (for Les Nuits de la Présidente – Video Marc Dorcel).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1999, after her contract with Dorcel ended, she left the sex industry, and later entirely disavowed her adult film career.<ref name="toutlemonde">« Interview biographie de Laure Sainclair », Tout le monde en parle, 17 November 2001.</ref> She tried to reinvent herself as a singer, but without success.<ref>Spécial sexe : Que deviennent les stars du X ?, Les Inrockuptibles, 29 August 2010</ref> In 2012, she sued her former music producer, who had also been her life partner, for rape and domestic abuse.<ref name=leparisien>L'ex-compagnon de Laure Sainclair condamné à 18 mois avec sursis, 2 February 2012</ref>
Discography
- Vous (2001)
- Pourquoi tu pars? / Por qué te vas (2001)
- Besoin de toi (2004)
References
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