Christy Canyon (born Melissa Bardizbanian on June 17, 1966 in Pasadena, California, USA) is a retired American pornographic actress.
Born to an Armenian-American father and an Italian American mother, Canyon is the younger sister of author/editor Carla Sinclair. She holds an associate's degree in merchandise marketing. She has been married and divorced twice: to Tom Sinopoli (1993-1994) and Jeremy Stone (1996-1999). Since 2003, she has been married to Grant, a man she has known since high school.
From 1984 to 1997, Canyon appeared in nearly 200 adult films. Canyon has won several "best female performance" awards and is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Canyon is best known for her large natural breasts, voluptuous body, natural beauty, and for her natural, full pubic hair. Full pubic hair is uncommon in the adult industry, most pornographic actresses remove their pubic hair either partially or completely. However, when she first entered the business, unshaven pubic hair was common, and it wasn't until her comeback that it was atypical.
She engaged in primarily standard adult fare consisting of vaginal intercourse, oral sex, sex with women, and group sex in small groups. She had anal sex in the film "The Show".
In a recent interview on Taylor Wane's radio show, Christy stated that although she "had safe sex" (used condoms) on-camera with all of her male co-stars during her time with Vivid Entertainment in the mid '90s, that this was not her practice in her private life at the time. She stated that she had had unprotected sex with every one of her male co-stars off camera, prior to their filmed sex scenes. She specifically mentioned well endowed British porn stud, Mark Davis as one of these men, suggesting that she greatly enjoyed intercourse with him off-camera.
Christy has also mentioned Peter North, John Dough, TGC, Harry Chung, and Ron Jeremy as co-stars with whom she has enjoyed working.
Canyon retired and returned to films several times during her career, mainly due to changes in her marital status. Currently, she is retired from performing in films, but still has an adult-related career, concentrating on her web site, working as a host for Playboy Radio, and selling merchandise on eBay. In 2003, she published her autobiography: Lights, Camera, Sex (ISBN 0-9727470-0-1). In November 2005, she appeared as a judge on the first episode of Jenna's American Sex Star.
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