1. Brigitte Lahaie was born on Brigitte Lucie Jeanine Van Meerhaeghe; 12 October 1955 and is a French radio talk show host, mainstream film actress and former pornographic actress.
10 Facts About Brigitte Lahaie
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Brigitte Lahaie performed in erotic films from 1976 through 1980 and is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.
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Brigitte Lahaie left home for Paris when 18 years old, where she started working as a shoe salesgirl.
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Brigitte Lahaie started working in the adult film industry in 1976, one year after the legalization of hardcore pornography in France, as "Brigitte Lahaie" and various other stage names.
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Brigitte Lahaie eventually played in more than one hundred erotic films, most of them hardcore, directed by among many others, Claude Mulot, Jose Benazeraf, Gerard Kikoine, Claude Bernard-Aubert, and Francis Leroi.
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Brigitte Lahaie then made her the protagonist of his next film, Fascination, in 1979.
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Brigitte Lahaie appeared in I as in Icarus, which starred Yves Montand, playing a stripper, in For a Cop's Hide, which starred Alain Delon, in the role of a nurse.
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Brigitte Lahaie continued to make softcore and Nazi exploitation movies as well as "video nasties" during this time.
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Brigitte Lahaie is a fan of equestrianism, an interest reportedly first inspired when she saw the film White Mane as a teenager.
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Brigitte Lahaie commentated live on the equestrian events at the 2012 London Olympics for RMC.