:en:Estelle Desanges
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{{short description|French pornographic actress}}
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| name = Estelle Desanges
| image = Estelle Desanges, 2002 (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Estelle Desanges in 2002
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|03|08|df=y}}{{cite web |title=Estelle Desanges |url=https://estelle-desanges.hotvideo.fr/ |website=Hot Vidéo |accessdate=15 January 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412213853/https://estelle-desanges.hotvideo.fr/ |archivedate=12 April 2018 |language=fr}}
| birth_place = Bordeaux, France
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| occupation = Pornographic actress
| years_active = 1997–present
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Estelle Desanges (born 8 March 1977) is a French former pornographic actress. During the 2000s, she was one of France's most popular porn actresses.{{in lang|fr}}Christophe Lemaire, in Le Cinéma X, La Musardine, 2012, p. 477
Early life
Estelle Desanges was born in Bordeaux in 1977. Desanges worked as a bartender at a nightclub and went attended nursing school. She was discovered by Fred Coppula in 1999 when she attended a Hot Vidéo event. She gave Coppula photographs that she had taken by a customer at the nightclub she worked at. Coppula showed the photos to the leadership at Blue One, a production company, and she was signed.
Career
Estelle Desanges started working in adult films in 1999, mainly in films produced by Fred Coppula. She received a Hot d'Or Award for Best French New Starlet in 2000.{{cite web|title=Hot Stuff at Hot d'Or Awards|publisher=AVN.com|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/10548.html|date=19 May 2000|accessdate=30 October 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100120064410/http://business.avn.com/articles/10548.html|archivedate=20 January 2010}} In 2001, she started working with VCV Communication. That year she starred in La Fille du Batelier, directed by Patrice Cabanel and won the Hot d'Or Best European Supporting Actress award.{{cite web|url=http://hot-dor.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=4 |title=Hot d'Or archives presse x, articles sur les Hot d'or |publisher=Hot-dor.fr |accessdate=9 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316035017/http://hot-dor.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=4 |archivedate=16 March 2014 }} That same year, she appeared on Tout le monde en parle.{{cite web |title=Interview biographie de Estelle Desanges |url=https://www.ina.fr/video/I08210820/interview-biographie-de-estelle-desanges-video.html |website=Tout le monde en parle |publisher=Institut National de l'Audiovisuel |accessdate=15 January 2020 |language=fr-FR}} During her career, she also worked with directors John B. Root, Brigitte Lahaie, Rocco Siffredi, and Walter Ego. She quit acting in 2004 and started working in marketing for V. Communications, followed by being a host on HNN, Hot Vidéo Magazine's online news site. In 2006, she co-authored an op-ed for Libération with Brigitte Lahaie, Helena Karel, Ovidie and Loïc LUC demanding that the French porn industry stop producing videos showing unprotected sex.{{cite web |title=Sida : porno sans capote, danger assuré |url=https://www.liberation.fr/tribune/2006/06/23/sida-porno-sans-capote-danger-assure_42320 |website=Libération.fr |accessdate=15 January 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628153148/http://www.liberation.fr/tribune/2006/06/23/sida-porno-sans-capote-danger-assure_42320 |archivedate=28 June 2018 |language=fr |date=23 June 2006}} She received a Hot d'Or Honorary Award in 2009.{{cite web|author=Paul Fishbein|title=Pirates II, Evil Angel Big Winners at 2009 Hot d'Or Awards|work=AVN|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/36568.html|date=21 October 2009|accessdate=21 October 2009|archive-date=25 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025142729/http://business.avn.com/articles/36568.html|url-status=dead}} Today, she makes occasionally appearances in soft core porn films, including works by Ovidie.
Discography
- French Kiss – La Sélection érotique d'Estelle Desanges – CD audio – Podis.
- French Kiss Volume 2 – La Sélection Glamour d'Estelle Desanges – CD audio – Podis.
- Sex Machine – N-Gels featuring Estelle Desanges – CD audio
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0220872|Estelle Desanges}}
- {{iafd name|id=EdesAnges|gender=female|name=Estelle Desanges}}
- {{afdb name|id=25367|gender=female|name=Estelle Desanges}}
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