Vanessa del Rio
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| Vanessa del Rio | |
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| Birthdate: | March 31, 1952 (age 55) |
| Birth location: | Harlem, New York, USA |
| Birth name: | Ana Maria Sanchez |
| Measurements: | 42DD-31-42 |
| Height: | 5' 6" (1.68 m) |
| Eye color: | Brown |
| Hair color: | Black |
| Natural bust: | yes |
| Orientation: | Bisexual |
| Ethnicity: | Puerto Rican Cuban American |
| Alias(es): | Vanessa Del Rio, Ursula Pasarell, Nessa |
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Vanessa del Rio (born Ana Maria Sanchez on March 31, 1952 in Harlem, New York, USA) was an American pornographic actress. She is a daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Puerto Rico. As a child and young adult she attended mostly Catholic schools.
[edit] Biography
Vanessa del Rio began appearing in adult films in 1974 as a way to earn rent money, and thus became the first Hispanic porn star. Though she has been credited occasionally as "Veri Knotty", this was not a name she ever used herself, but an error made on "loop" boxes by producers in the industry due to her very superficial resemblance to another '70s-'80s porn star who went by this very name (whose signature claim to fame was her ability to tie her labia in a knot). Similarly, she was credited as "Ursula Pasarell" on some early film boxes by loop producers, but again, she never used the name herself. Though she retired from adult films in 1986 in part due to the AIDS scare prevalent at the time, she remains somewhat active in the adult entertainment industry through her web site and by making special appearances at award shows, conventions, etc. Over the course of her 22-year career, del Rio has appeared in over 200 pornographic movies, the last of which was the film Dr. Lust. She's also appeared in several music videos, notably "Get Money" by Junior M.A.F.I.A.
Initially, del Rio was well-known due to her extremely large and prominent clitoris and for being the first porn actress to regularly engage in extended anal sex (for this reason she was dubbed the "anal queen" of porn). She was also known for working as an expensive call girl. She is best known now for her blunt sense of humor. While helping out middle-aged curators with the installation of a sex museum in New York, she quipped, "They're so repressed - I know what they really want."
She was recently "canonized" by the Church of the Subgenius as St. Vanessa Del Rio. Her feast day is 29 December.[1]
In spring of 2007 the German art book publisher Taschen plans to release a deluxe autobiography, heavily illustrated, that documents every exuberant and often shocking detail of her life.
[edit] Awards
- Hall Of Fame Adult Video News
- Hall Of Fame X-Rated Critics Organization
- Del Rio's work has earned her a spot on the Adult Star Path of Fame located in Edison, New Jersey.[2]
