Ovidie
Encyclopedia
Ovidie is a French
pornographic actress
.
, France
. She refuses to give her real name to the press. Her parents are liberals from "a good family background" who were farmers 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 adult film 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 adult film star
, 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.
Ovidie was an active porn performer until 2005, 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. Her first film as a director, Orgie en Noir (2000), was produced by Marc Dorcel
. Since then, she has directed a number of videos for Marc Dorcel, Blue One, and VCommunications. In 2009, she was directing videos for the adult movie channel FrenchLover TV. , she was FrenchLover TV's Program Director. She also hosts a weekly talk show on the channel.
During her active career, she refused to do anal sex
scenes, and required her partners to use a condom
in every role except her first.
In 2002, she published her first book, Porno Manifesto, which she said she wrote because she was angry about the ignorance about pornography. She owns a sex shop that caters to women only.
Ovidie is a devout vegan and a campaigner for animal rights.
and Le Pornographe (The Pornographer) by Bertrand Bonello
. In the latter film, she performs an unsimulated sex scene
.
She also appears in the Danish
film All About Anna
, produced by Lars von Trier
's Zentropa
, where she performed explicit and unsimulated oral sex
on mainstream actress/singer Gry Bay
; in a twist typical of Zentropa films, she is the only porn star in the film's cast, yet stands out as she does not appear nude in the film (only Gry Bay is undressed during their sex scene
).
She also starred in the 2007 Jean Rollin
film La Nuit Des Horloges.
for martial musicians such as Dernière Volonté
and others. In 2009, Ovidie directed and performed in a music video
by the German electro rock
/glam
band The World Domination.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
pornographic actress
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
.
Overview
Ovidie was born in LilleLille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. She refuses to give her real name to the press. Her parents are liberals from "a good family background" who were farmers in 2003. She was married; her husband left a teaching position at the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
to edit a pornographic magazine. They later divorced, but her job was not a factor in the divorce.
Ovidie has denied entering the adult film industry
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
for either sex or money, describing herself as middle class.
Her involvement in dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
and choreography
Choreography
Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...
, 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 adult film star
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
, she described herself as a "very active militant feminist". She first viewed pornography
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
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
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
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.
Ovidie was an active porn performer until 2005, when she was featured in the porn/mainstream crossover film All About Anna
All About Anna
All About Anna is a Danish pornographic film released in 2005, directed by Jessica Nilsson and starring Gry Bay and Mark Stevens. The film is explicit in its exploration of sexual relationships...
. She has also been active as a porn director, both during her years as a performer and afterward. Her first film as a director, Orgie en Noir (2000), was produced by Marc Dorcel
Marc Dorcel
Marc Dorcel is a French producer of pornographic films who founded the company Video Marc Dorcel. Besides producing films by himself, he also produces films in partnership with people like Michel Ricaud, Cyril Randuineau, Marc Ange and Michel Barny...
. Since then, she has directed a number of videos for Marc Dorcel, Blue One, and VCommunications. In 2009, she was directing videos for the adult movie channel FrenchLover TV. , she was FrenchLover TV's Program Director. She also hosts a weekly talk show on the channel.
During her active career, she refused to do anal sex
Anal sex
Anal sex is the sex act in which the penis is inserted into the anus of a sexual partner. The term can also include other sexual acts involving the anus, including pegging, anilingus , fingering, and object insertion.Common misconception describes anal sex as practiced almost exclusively by gay men...
scenes, and required her partners to use a condom
Condom
A condom is a barrier device most commonly used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy and spreading sexually transmitted diseases . It is put on a man's erect penis and physically blocks ejaculated semen from entering the body of a sexual partner...
in every role except her first.
In 2002, she published her first book, Porno Manifesto, which she said she wrote because she was angry about the ignorance about pornography. She owns a sex shop that caters to women only.
Ovidie is a devout vegan and a campaigner for animal rights.
Filmography
Ovidie has appeared in mainstream movies, such as Mortel Transfer by Jean-Jacques BeineixJean-Jacques Beineix
-Biography:In 1964, Jean-Jacques Beineix started his career as Jean Becker's assistant director on the famous French TV series, Les saintes chéries until the end of 1967. Then, in 1970 he worked for Claude Berri and in 1971 for Claude Zidi. In 1977, he directed his first short movie Le Chien de M....
and Le Pornographe (The Pornographer) by Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand Bonello is a French film director. His background is in classical music, and he lives between Paris and Montreal.Le Pornographe won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
. In the latter film, she performs an unsimulated sex scene
Unsimulated sex in film
Unsimulated sex in mainstream cinema was at one time restricted by law and self-imposed industry standards such as the Motion Picture Production Code. Films showing explicit sexual activity were confined to privately distributed underground films, such as stag films or "porn loops"...
.
She also appears in the Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
film All About Anna
All About Anna
All About Anna is a Danish pornographic film released in 2005, directed by Jessica Nilsson and starring Gry Bay and Mark Stevens. The film is explicit in its exploration of sexual relationships...
, produced by Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....
's Zentropa
Zentropa
Europa is a film directed by Lars von Trier. Released in 1991, it is von Trier's third theatrical feature film and is the final film in the Europa trilogy....
, where she performed explicit and unsimulated oral sex
Cunnilingus
Cunnilingus is an oral sex act performed on a female. It involves the use by a sex partner of the mouth, lips and tongue to stimulate the female's clitoris, vulva, or vagina...
on mainstream actress/singer Gry Bay
Gry Bay
Gry Wernberg Bay is a Danish actress and singer. Gry Bay is best known for her sexually provocative starring role in the feature film All About Anna .- Biography :...
; in a twist typical of Zentropa films, she is the only porn star in the film's cast, yet stands out as she does not appear nude in the film (only Gry Bay is undressed during their sex scene
Sex in film
Sex in film refers to the presentation in motion pictures of sexuality and sex acts, including love scenes. Sex scenes have been depicted in film since the silent era of cinematography. Many actors and actresses have exposed parts of their bodies or dressed and behaved in ways considered sexually...
).
She also starred in the 2007 Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...
film La Nuit Des Horloges.
Music
Ovidie has also been active in musical circles, organizing underground concerts within FranceFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
for martial musicians such as Dernière Volonté
Dernière Volonté
Dernière Volonté is the name under which French musician Geoffroy D writes martial music, neoclassical music, dark ambient and military pop. Throughout his early period, Geoffroy tended to write a fusion of martial music and dark ambient. Choosing to focus on atmosphere, rhythm, and historical...
and others. In 2009, Ovidie directed and performed in a music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
by the German electro rock
Electro rock
Electronic rock, also commonly referred to as synthrock, electro rock or digital rock, is rock music generated with electronic instruments...
/glam
Glam
Glam is a shortened form of the word glamour.Glam or GLAM may also refer to:* GLAM , an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums, the cultural heritage institutions* Glam Media, a life-style related Web company...
band The World Domination.
Titles and awards
During five years in the porn business, Ovidie appeared in more than 60 movies and received seven awards:- Bruxelles 2001
- Cannes 2001
- Cannes 2001
- Bruxelles 2002
- Barcelone 2002
- Bruxelles 2003
- Bruxelles 2004
- Hot d'OrHot d'OrHot d'Or was an adult film industry Pornographic award, awarded annually from 1992 to 2001 in Cannes, France by the French magazine Hot Vidéo. It has been described as the porn equivalent of the Palme d'Or or the Academy Awards. The analogous American honor is the AVN Award...
Honorary Award 2009
External links
- Ovidie at EGAFD