Christine Mackinday, known professionally as Christy Mack,
is an American nude model and former
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 dis ...
.
Career
Mackinday portrayed
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. ( doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with the ...
character
Zatanna
Zatanna Zatara () is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson, and first appeared in ''Hawkman'' #4 (November 1964). Zatanna is a stage magician with actu ...
in the 2012
porn parody
A pornographic parody film is a subgenre of the pornographic film industry genre where the basis for the production's story or plotline is the parody of a mainstream television show, feature film, public figure, video game or literary works. This ...
''The Dark Knight XXX''.
In April 2013, Mackinday launched her official website with Puba,
and in November,
Fleshlight
The Fleshlight is a brand of artificial vagina, oral, or anal sex toy. It is a masturbatory aid, which is used by inserting the penis into its opening.
Product history
The Fleshlight was designed by Steve Shubin, who was granted a patent i ...
released ''Attack'' and ''Booty'', her signature
sex toy
A sex toy is an object or device that is primarily used to facilitate Human sexual activity, human sexual pleasure, such as a dildo, artificial vagina or Vibrator (sex toy), vibrator. Many popular sex toys are designed to resemble human genita ...
s.
In a 2013 interview with ''
Vice
A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character t ...
'', Mackinday stated that she planned to retire from performing in adult videos once she had earned enough money to do so.
In July 2014, she said she had not performed in a new scene in ten months.
She confirmed her retirement in an April 2015
ESPN
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story.
In 2016, Mackinday launched a clothing line with the website
Pornhub
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to raise money for domestic violence survivors, following her assault by her ex-boyfriend, mixed martial artist
War Machine.
Personal life
Mackinday grew up in
Edinburgh, Indiana :''Alternative meanings at Edinburgh (disambiguation).''
Edinburgh is a town in Bartholomew, Johnson, and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 4,480 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Columbus, Indiana metropolitan ...
, where she was a
cheerleader
Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...
. She married at the age of eighteen but later left her husband and moved to Miami to work in nude modeling.
She was later involved in a relationship with mixed martial artist Jonathan Koppenhaver, known as
War Machine.
In August 2014, Mackinday and her boyfriend Corey Thomas were assaulted by Koppenhaver in her
Las Vegas
Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Veg ...
home.
Mackinday sustained eighteen broken bones, a broken nose, missing teeth, a fractured rib, a ruptured liver, and a thigh bruise so deep she was unable to walk for at least a week.
Mackinday says Koppenhaver also attempted to rape her, but was unable to maintain an
erection
An erection (clinically: penile erection or penile tumescence) is a physiological phenomenon in which the penis becomes firm, engorged, and enlarged. Penile erection is the result of a complex interaction of psychological, neural, vascular, a ...
.
Koppenhaver was later arrested in
Simi Valley
Simi Valley (; Chumash: ''Shimiyi'') is a city in the valley of the same name in the southeast region of Ventura County, California, United States. Simi Valley is from Downtown Los Angeles, making it part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The ...
by
U.S. Marshals and Simi Valley police.
Koppenhaver was found guilty of twenty-nine of the thirty-four charges against him, including sexual assault and kidnapping; in 2017, he was sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole after thirty-six years.
Awards and nominations
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21st-century American actresses
Alt porn
American female adult models
Living people
Pornographic film actors from Indiana
1990s births