Dana Vespoli is an American
pornographic actress
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie. Such videos tend to be made in a number of dist ...
and film director.
Early life
Vespoli graduated from
Mills College
Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...
with a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree in
comparative literature
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.
Career
Vespoli began performing at age 31 as a
stripper
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at the
Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre
The Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre was a strip club at 895 O'Farrell Street near San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Having first opened as an X-rated movie theater by Jim and Artie Mitchell on July 4, 1969, the O'Farrell was one of A ...
in San Francisco,
using the stage name "Christa".
She entered the adult film industry in 2003,
first as a performer, and then as a director and producer.
In April 2006, Vespoli began directing for
Digital Sin
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. She has directed for
Sweetheart Video
Sweetheart Video is a Canadian pornographic film film studio, studio based in Montreal, Montreal, Quebec. The studio was founded by Jonathan Blitt and pornographic film actor, pornographic actress Nica Noelle in 2008, and it specializes in lesbia ...
and
Evil Angel.
[ She has received award nominations from '' AVN'' and ]Xbiz
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In addition to its flagship "Xbiz.com" website, XBIZ publishes two monthly trade magazines, hosts winter and summer Trade fair, exhibition and industry ...
mostly for films she has directed for Evil Angel.Complex
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'' ranked her thirteenth on their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time". In 2014, ''Break.com
Break.com (formerly Big-boys.com) was an entertainment and humor website founded in 1998 that featured comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The website's target audience was men aged 18–35.
After shutting down on No ...
'' ranked her 31st on their list of "40 Best Asian Porn Stars Today".
Personal life
Vespoli married pornographic actor Manuel Ferrara
Manuel Jeannin (; born 1 November 1975), known professionally as Manuel Ferrara, is a French pornographic actor and director.
One of the leading actors in the porn industry, Ferrara has won over 64 adult industry awards including six AVN Awards ...
in January 2005 and has three children with him. The couple divorced seven years later.
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American pornographic film actresses
American pornographic film directors
Living people
Mills College alumni
Women pornographic film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women