Mari Possa is a
Salvadoran American
Salvadoran Americans ( or ) are Americans of full or partial Salvadoran descent. As of 2010, there are 2,195,477 Salvadoran Americans in the United States, the fourth-largest Hispanic community by nation of ancestry.[pornographic actress
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and
reality TV
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personality.
Early life
Possa was born in
San Miguel, El Salvador
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. Her family moved from El Salvador to the United States when she was nine.
Career
Mari Possa was a former secretary at a law firm when she entered the adult industry as assistant of director Seymour Butts.
In 2003, she became a contract girl for
Seymour Butts Home Movies and
Adam & Eve Pictures, and appeared in about 35 scenes until 2009. In 2009, Possa retired from the porn industry to pursue a degree in broadcasting, then made her comeback to porn in 2012 as a freelance performer for solo and lesbian scenes. Possa also appeared in the
Showtime
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Television Networks and channels
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TV series ''
Family Business
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'' and was the cover girl of the book ''Dirty Talk: Conversations with Porn Stars'' by Andrew J. Rausch and Chris Watson.
["Adult Who's Who: Mari Possa", '']AVN Magazine
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'', Vol. 28/No. 8, Issue 356, August 2012, p. 40. Her porn name is a pun on the word ''mariposa'', which means "
butterfly
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" in Spanish.
Awards
*2005
AVN Award
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nominee – Best Group Sex Scene, Video – ''Anal Surprise Party''
*2006 AVN Award nominee – Best Threeway Sex Scene – ''House of Ass''
*2006 AVN Award nominee – Best All-Girl Sex Scene, Video – ''War of the Girls''
*2007 AVN Award nominee – Best Group Sex Scene, Video – ''Butt Pirates of the Caribbean''
*2009 AVN Award nominee – Best Threeway Sex Scene – ''Jenna 9.5''
* 2013
XBIZ Award
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nomination – Performer Comeback of the Year
References
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1980 births
Salvadoran emigrants to the United States
American pornographic film actresses
Living people
21st-century American women