Brigitte Lahaie

Brigitte Lahaie , of her true name Brigitte Lucille Jeanine Van Meerhaeghe , is a radio presenter and old a pornographic actress born the October 12th 1955 with Tourcoing (Northern).

She was one of the first stars of the French pornographic cinema during her “golden age” of the years 1970 to 1980 per hour of the sexual release and during which the pornographic cinemas passed from films made in 35 mm in confidential rooms. Sculptural blonde, Brigitte Lahaie was the egery of this period. Twenty years later, it continues to make regular appearances in the cinema known as “traditional”, or on erotic subjects in television programs.

She has animated for several years a radio broadcast on RMC, antenna open with the listeners on the questions of sexuality, thus making a success of one of the best professional reconversions among the former actresses of cinema X.

Career

Actress X

Girl of a banking father and a mother representing, Brigitte Lahaie exerts the trade of saleswoman of shoes before going up to Paris at the eighteen years age and starting to pose naked for magazines.

She begins her career from pornographic actress at the twenty years age in 1976 and exerts this trade until 1980 turning finally only few films, about thirty approximately (without counting erotic films), which ridiculous is compared with the stakhanovist production of the current actresses. During this short period, she worked with the principal realizers of cinema X of the time: Claude Mulot ( Pleasures , 1976), Gerard Kikoïne ( Pleasure party , 1977), Burd Tranbaree ( Rabatteuse , 1977), Jose Bénazéraf ( Brothel S , 1978) and Francis Leroi ( I am to take , 1978, film remained famous for a scene of love carried out beside a horse). These films in majority were published at Alpha France and Rene Château Video and republished, for some, in DVD in the collection “great successes of cinema X French” at Blue One.

She followed her occupation at one time when the realizers could show of inventiveness and humor in the writing of their scenarios, scenes X themselves being rather little “anatomical” and leaving room to a certain setting in erotic situation. Thus, in its last film, the Small schoolgirls of Claude Mulot (alias Frederic Lansac) in 1980, it plays the part of a tenancière of closed house brought to reconvert itself into the direction of a boarding school for young girls. Of course, the education exempted in this establishment relates to matters closer to the lesson of things than of the official program of State education.

Reconversion

Before even the abandonment of her career in X, Brigitte Lahaie had held of the roles in not-pornographic films, in particular in science fiction films carried out by Jean Rollin. Amorçant a professional reconversion in the cinema known as “traditional” with orée of the years 1980, one sees it appearing in small roles, often credited with the name of Brigitte Simonin : a prostitute in I like Icare of Henri Verneuil in 1979, “a girl without breeches” in Diva of Jean-Jacques Beineix in 1980 and one nurse at the sides of Alain Delon in For the skin of cop in 1981. It takes part even in a part of the emission general public With the theater this evening in 1982. In 1990, it again holds a small role of prostitute in Henry & June of Philip Kaufman, one of first films of Uma Thurman.

In same time, it continues to appear in some erotic films, of which Joy & Joan of Jacques Saurel in 1985 and pink Devil of Pierre B. Reinhard (with Roger Carel and Pierre Doris) in 1987, and in some films of kind: the Executer of Michel Caputo in 1986 in which it holds the role titrates of a woman-cop, two films of max Pécas ( Vice quad in 1985, One is calmed and one drinks fresh in Saint-Tropez in 1987), Fatal Illusions in 1993 of Patrick Malakian with Elise Tielrooy, the lady toilet attendant in 2000 of Jacques Richard drawn from a news of Roland Topor, been engaged of Dracula of Jean Rollin in 2002.

Making arrow of any wood at the end of its career of actress X, it is pointed out by its participation in the emission radio, the Famous persons , diffused on RTL in France. It also tries to bore in the Chanson with the title Caresse tenderness which does not meet any business success, nor even of regard. It animates from now on some emissions on chains of the cable French. Presenter high-speed motorboat of the radio operator Monegasque RMC, in “Lahaie, the Love and You”, the star animates daily 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. which covers essential subjects, namely the human relations and sexual.

She also tested herself with the literature and wrote two mawkish novels published at I have Lu: the woman models (1991), which tells the history of a married woman undertaking to pose naked, and the direction of the life (1994). One owes him also some tests on sexuality: ways of better liking (I have Lu, 1999), Of love and sex (Marabout, 2004) etc

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