Linzi Drew

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| name = Linzi Drew

| image = Linzi Drew NN.jpg

| caption = Drew on a beach on the Algarve in Continental Portugal, 1986

| birth_name = Lindsey Jane Drew

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|5|11|df=y}}{{cite web|url=https://www.duedil.com/director/916693594/linzi-drew-honey|title=Ms Linzi Drew-Honey, Drew-Honey Productions Unlimited – Ex-Director Profile|author=|date=|work=duedil.com|accessdate=15 July 2016}}

| birth_place = Bristol, England

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| partner = Ben Dover (1980s–2011)

| children = Tyger Drew-Honey

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| alias = Mistress Monique{{cite web|last=Staff|title=Linzi Drew|url=http://www.bgafd.co.uk/actresses/details.php/id/l00013|publisher=British Girls Adult Film Database|accessdate=29 March 2014}}

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Lindsey Jane Drew (born 11 May 1958), known professionally as Linzi Drew, is an English former glamour model, producer, adult model, and pornographic actress.{{IMDb name|id=0237684|name=Linzi Drew}}

Career

Linzi Drew was born on 11 May 1958 in Bristol, England. During a varied career in the UK sex industry, she worked as a Page 3 girl, stripper, glamour model, and porn actress, and was at one time the editor of the British edition of Penthouse magazine. In the 1980s, she appeared nude each month in the softcore magazine Club International.

In the 1990s, Drew was arrested for illegally distributing pornography, something which she and then-boyfriend Simon Honey a.k.a. Ben Dover discussed in a BBC Open Space documentary titled "More Sex please, we're British" (1993).{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/500526|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524075648/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/500526|archive-date=24 May 2009|title=Open Space: More Sex Please, We're British|website=British Film Institute}}{{Failed verification|date=June 2020|reason=Drew is not mentioned in the source}}

Drew retired from the porn industry at the age of 35.{{cn|date=April 2020}}

In 1993, she published her autobiography Try everything once except Incest and Morris Dancing: The intimate Autobiography of a dangerous Lady. The book chronicles her time as a groupie and her career as a glamour model and porn-star.{{cite book | last = Drew | first = Linzi | title = Try everything once except – incest & morris dancing | publisher = Blake | location = London | year = 1993 | isbn = 9781857820348 }}

Appearances

Under the direction of glamour photographer George Harrison Marks, Drew starred in two short erotic corporal punishment videos: Warden’s End (1981), produced by Janus magazine, and The Cane and Mr. Abel (1984), released by Kane International Video, a publishing company owned by Marks.

Drew has also had minor roles in a handful of mainstream films, including An American Werewolf in London (1981){{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/30/john-landis-american-werewold-london| title=London was chaotic for filming| accessdate=1 July 2013 | work=The Guardian| first=Jason| last=Solomons| date=30 August 2009}} and The Rainbow Thief (1990),{{cite web|website=British Film Institute|title=Linzi Drew|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba24e60d5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106101744/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba24e60d5|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 January 2018|access-date=5 October 2020}} and a number of Ken Russell films, including Salome's Last Dance (1988), The Lair of the White Worm (1988){{cite book|title=Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOdQL3tX0tMC|first=Joseph|last=Lanza|publisher=Chicago Review Press|year=2007|isbn=9781569764824|page=359}} and the Nessun dorma{{YouTube|uyLJmU8Q0FU|Ken Russell - Nessun Dorma}} segment of the multi-director film Aria (1987).{{sfnp|Lanza|2007|page=358}}

She also appeared on the front cover of the 1984 Roger Waters concept album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking{{Cite Q|Q25766745}} and in the film back-projected during the accompanying live tour.{{Cite book| edition = Updated | publisher = Omnibus | isbn = 0-7119-4109-2| last1 = Miles| first1 = Barry | last2 = Mabbett | first2 = Andy | title = Pink Floyd the visual documentary | location = London | year = 1994}}

Drew played the role of "rack girl" during American hard rockers W.A.S.P.'s appearance at the 1987 Monsters of Rock festival.{{Cite web|url=http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/37/e1db8d639798e33f47b1efacbbcf0fc7/l.jpg|title=WASP Donington 1987}}