Name Dany Verissimo | ||
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Born June 27, 1982 (age 41) ( 1982-06-27 ) Vitry-sur-Seine (South Paris), France Spouse(s) Jesse Salto (July 12, 2005 – February 28, 2010)Rodolphe Verissimo (November 10, 2001 – March 29, 2005) (divorced) | ||
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Dany Verissimo-Petit (born June 27, 1982), is a French actress, model. She briefly worked as a pornographic performer under the stage name Ally Mac Tyana, before starting a mainstream career, using first the name Dany Verissimo.
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- Dany verissimo in district 13
- Backstage shooting envieuse com with dany verissimo petit
- Early life
- Pornography
- Mainstream career
- Personal life
- References
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Early life
The child of a Malagasy mother and a French father who was a financial director at Air France, Verissimo divided her childhood between France, the United States, and Nigeria. In France, she lived in Vitry-sur-Seine. Verissimo attended a boarding school.
Pornography
Verissimo began in pornography at 18 and a half years old, after being discovered by French adult director John B. Root. In the course of her 16-month adult film career, which lasted 16 months, she appeared exclusively in films directed or produced by John B. Root. During this time, she used the stage name "Ally Mac Tyana", which was a play on Ally McBeal.
Mainstream career
In 2002, Verissimo started appearing in mainstream productions, first as an extra in So Long Mister Monore and in the opening credits of The Red Siren. After casting her in several softcore productions, the French TV channel M6 offered her first real mainstream role in an episode of the police drama Brigade des mineurs. In 2004, she played the lead female character in the action film Banlieue 13, a character specially created for her by producer Luc Besson.
In 2006, she appeared in 'ELLE's "Cannes Special Edition". She was then cast as Belkis in the film Gradiva, directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet. The film was shown out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in September 2006.
Verissimo played Camelia in the TV series Maison Close, broadcast on Canal plus from 2010 to 2013.
Her 2013 performance on the stage in D.A.F. Marquis de Sade, based on the life of the legendary writer and directed by Nicolas Briançon, won several critical accolades.
She starred in the 2009 comedy drama film Shot List, written and directed by Joe LiTrenta, as Chicken, her first English-language role.
Personal life
Verissimo speaks French and English.
She has a daughter, born in October 2013 from a marriage which ended in divorce.