Céline Bara, née Céline Szumigay,
at Céline Bara Studio (9 September 1978) is a French retired
pornographic film actress.
Biography
Céline Bara was born in
Antony and grew up in the Parisian region. Her mother is of
Mauritian
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origin
and she also has a
German
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grandfather.
[Législatives L’ex-actrice porno, Céline Bara se présente à la députation en Ariège. Contre les patrons et contre les curés](_blank)
''L'Est républicain'', 7 juin 2012 According to her own account, she received a
Catholic fundamentalist education. She later rejected this upbringing and became a militant
atheist
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. She married her cousin Cyrille Bara and worked for a time as a hostess in a
Darty store, then started performing in pornographic films after finding out that she could make more money in this line of work.
[Céline Bara. De MAL en mieux](_blank)
''Libération'', 30 mai 2012 In 2000, she was nominated for the
Hot d'Or for Best New French Starlet.
She performed for several French porn companies, but she and her husband eventually created their own studio, with Cyrille Bara directing the films.
However, their small company was soon heavily in debt.
[Vengeance hard dans le milieu porno](_blank)
''Libération'', 10 octobre 2002
In March 2001, Céline and Cyrille Bara assaulted one of their colleagues and competitors, porn actor-director HPG, whom Cyrille Bara wounded with a shotgun. Both spouses were arrested a few days later and, in October 2002, sentenced to four years imprisonment, including two years of probation.
After their release, the Baras, unemployed and heavily indebted, lived from
welfare benefits
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.
They eventually settled in
Ariège, where Céline Bara found occasional work as a
stripper
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Modern forms of stripping m ...
. They eventually started shooting new pornographic videos, which they distributed for free on their website.
[Moi, Céline Bara, actrice porno et communiste, je me présente aux législatives](_blank)
''LePlusNouvelObs'', 21 May 2012
''La Dépêche du midi'', 11 June 2012 Céline Bara published in 2007 an autobiographical book, ''La Sodomite'', co-authored with her husband. In 2011, she was portrayed by her husband in a
hentai
Hentai () is a style of Pornography in Japan, Japanese pornographic anime and manga. In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exist in a variety of media, including artwork and video games (commonly known as ''eroge'').
The developme ...
-style comic featuring
BDSM
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themes.
In 2012, after applying unsuccessfully to the
French Communist Party
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and the
New Anticapitalist Party
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for candidacy in the
legislative elections
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, Céline Bara and her husband created their own political party, a
far left
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Military and paramilitary
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group called the ''Antitheist and Libertine Movement'', of which themselves and a friend were the only three members.
She then ran for parliament in Ariège on an "anti-capitalist" and "anti-religious" platform, presenting herself as a
communist
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and "neo-
stalinist
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" candidate. Her husband was also her running mate.
Her candidacy attracted the French media's attention, thanks also to a program which included banning all religions, defending LGBT rights, legalizing drugs and sterilizing disabled people at birth. She eventually received 1.58% of the votes in Ariège.
In September 2012, Céline Bara announced that she was putting an end to her career as a porn performer.
On 8 February 2013 she was declared ineligible for a period of three years by the
Constitutional Council of France
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for not having deposited her campaign returns.
Autobiography
* 2007 : ''La Sodomite'',
La Sodomite
/ref> co-authored with Cyrille Bara ()
References
External links
*
MAL website
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Living people
1978 births
20th-century atheists
21st-century atheists
21st-century French women writers
Former Roman Catholics
French anti-capitalists
French atheism activists
French communists
French people of German descent
French people of Mauritian descent
French pornographic film actresses
French LGBTQ rights activists
People from Antony, Hauts-de-Seine
Actresses from Île-de-France