Julia Channel (born 3 November 1973) is a French actress, singer, entrepreneur, and former pornographic actress.
Career
After posing for magazines such as ''
Playboy
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'' and ''
Penthouse
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'' in the early 1990s,
Channel debuted in the adult industry in 1992 and retired in 1996; during this time, she starred in about 120 productions.
In 1998, she won a
Hot d'Or
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, ''Frères'' (1994), ''Coup de vice'' (1996) together with
Samy Naceri
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Early life and career
Naceri was born to an Algerian ...
, and ''Recto/Verso'' (1999).
In addition, she starred in a series of erotic TV-movies produced and broadcast by
M6 Television,
and, in 2001, she hosted the TV-program ''Le journal du hard'' on
Canal+
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.
Channel appeared in a number of
hip hop music videos, including
Method Man
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's "
Judgement Day
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". She also hosted a music program, ''Hip Hop Channel'', which was broadcast by the channel
MCM.
[ In 2010, she started her own musical career, releasing her first single "All I want" from her debut album ''Colours''.][ In her 2012 music video for the song "Forever in a Day", she had as a guest star the soccer player ]Didier Drogba
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.
In 2008, Channel published an autobiography entitled ''L'enfer vu du ciel'' (''The hell seen from the sky'').
In 2010, she created a dating service website for singles called ''Mecacroquer''.
Personal life
Channel was born to a Malian father and a French mother of Italian origin.Music Story – Julia Channel Biographie
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References
External links
Personal web page
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* Juan Caido
«Avec les Suisses, pas de dérapages»
'' 20 Minutes'', 15 November 2006
*
Julia Channel
on Myspace
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Living people
1973 births
French female adult models
French television actresses
French film actresses
French pornographic film actresses
Actresses from Paris
Singers from Paris
20th-century French actresses
French people of Malian descent
French people of Italian descent
21st-century French singers
21st-century French women singers