Karen Lancaume
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| Born | Karen Bach January 19, 1973 Lyon, France |
| Died | January 28, 2005 (aged 32) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Other names | Karen Lancome, Karen Lancoume, Karen D., Caren, Lauren Del Rio, Karen Lancom, Karen Bach[1] |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
Karen Lancaume (19 January 1973 – 28 January 2005) was a French pornographic film actress. She appeared in about 40 pornographic films between 1996 and 2002, all but one being in video.[1] She is best known internationally for her role as Nadine in the controversial 2000 film, Baise-moi, which is a mainstream film in which she performed unsimulated penetration and fellatio.
She was born Karen Bach in the suburbs of Lyon, France, into a wealthy family. Her father was French and her mother was of Moroccan origin. She spent her childhood in the Lyon countryside and completed her studies in communications.
She declared that she had her first sexual experience at the age of 17, just before embarking on her university course and that she worked weekends at a nightclub to pay for her studies. At the nightclub she met Franck Ceronne, the disc jockey, whom she married. The couple divorced in 1997.
Lancaume committed suicide on 28 January 2005 by taking an overdose of temazepam in her then boyfriend's apartment in Paris, France.[2]
She was a nominee for the Best French Actress Hot d'Or in 2000.[3][4] Her screen name is a pun on Lancôme.
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[edit] Career
In 1997, to escape their crippling debts, at Franck's suggestion, the couple began working as a couple in pornographic films.[2] In the film L'Indécente aux enfer (1997) she for the first time performed unsimulated sex scenes with other partners. The couple divorced shortly after. After their divorce, Franck quit the pornographic film industry but Karen continued to appear in pornographic films both in Europe and the United States. Lancaume's debut in the United States was in Private Gold 25 - When the Night Falls (Jorgen Wolf, 1997), a Private Media Group production in which Roberto Malone performs one of her first on screen anal penetrations and cum on her mouth. She later worked with European porn film directors, including Mario Salieri, Alain Payet and Luca Damiano, whose films highlighted oral and anal sex, double penetrations, lesbianism and orgies.
Her appearances alternated between the two continents, whether in the ranks of major producers like Elegant Angel, Wicked Pictures and Sin City, or to be under acclaimed directors like Marc Dorcel, Mario Salieri, Andrew Blake, Alain Payet, Alessandro Del Mar, Luca Damiano, and others.
She collaborated in Exhibitions (John B. Root, 1998), a pornographic film shot as a documentary on the porn scene, which combined interviews with the protagonists. Lancaume came to feel distaste for her work, even in an interview saying: "I was covered in cum, wet, freezing to death and no one even offered me a towel. When the scene ends, you are worthless."
The following year she exhibited at the Cannes Film Festival and Virginie Despentes, was seeking actresses to perform explicit sex in her first film Baise-moi (Rape me, Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000). In addition to Lancaume, Raffaëla Anderson, another French porn actress, was also chosen. The controversial film is based on the novel by Virginie which narrates the encounter between Nadine (Karen) and Manu (Raffaëla) and her subsequent flight, transformed into a vengeance against society and the male gender. The director defines his debut as a feminist argument in the style of Thelma and Louise but with real sex scenes, rape and murder. With the scandal came notoriety, and Raffaëla decided to use the pull to pursue a career in mainstream film while Karen Bach abandon the pornographic industry, but not before denying it.
[edit] Filmography
- La marionnette (video) (2001)
- Lady Chérie (video) (as Karen Lacome) (2000)
- À feu et à sexe sur la Riviera (video) (2000)
- Baise-moi as Nadine (as Karen Bach) (2000)
- Alta borghesia (video) (as Karen Lacombe) (2000)
- Harcèlement au féminin (video) (2000)
- Inferno (video) (2000)
- Les interdits de la gynéco (video) as Le docteur Lancaume (2000)
- Niqueurs-nés (video) (1999)
- Le fétichiste (video) (1999)
- L'empreinte du vice (video) as Maid in the bordello (1999)
- Acteurs porno en analyse (video) (1999)
- Anal Power 3 (video) (1999)
- Danila Visconti (video) (1999)
- Hotdorix (video) (1999)
- Il residence della vergogna (video) (1999)
- Le château des désirs (video) (1999)
- L'enjeu du désir (video) (1999)
- Le principe de plaisir (video) (1998)
- The 5 Beginners (video) (1998)
- Cindy (video) as Veronica (1998)
- Lili (video) (1998)
- Girl of Casino (1998)
- Mad Sex (video) (1998)
- An American Girl in Paris (video) (1998)
- Bérénice nique (video) (1998)
- Don Tonino (video) (1998)
- Exhibition 99 (1998)
- Fuga dall'Albania (video) as Helen (1998)
- Journal d'une infirmière (video) (1998)
- Necrofilia (video) (1998)
- Racconti dall'oltretomba (video) (1998)
- Sacro e profano (video) (as Karen Lancoume) (1997)
- La maledizione del castello (video)
- Antefutura (video) (1997)
- Bourgeoisie violée (video) (1997)
- Incest' Air (video) as La fille (1997)
- La mante religieuse (video) (1997)
- L'indécente aux enfers (video) (1997)
- Papà, ti scopo tua moglie (video) (1997)
- Private Gold 25: When the Night Falls (video) (1997)
- Teeny Exzesse 48 - Sperma zum Dessert (video) (1997)
- Teeny Exzesse 51 - Karbol-Mäuschen (video) (1997)
- Oberstabsärztin (as Carene Lancome) (1997)
- World Sex Tour 21: France (video) (1997)
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Personal Bio Karen Lancaume". IAFD.com. http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=KLancaume/gender=f/Karen-Lancaume.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
- ^ a b Antoine de Baecque. "Le geste ultime de Karen Bach - Libération" (in French). Libération. http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101517378-le-geste-ultime-de-karen-bach. Retrieved 2009-12-09.
- ^ "2000 Hot D'or Nominations Are In". AVN.com. 2000-03-24. http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=ED9C6C5B-1372-4B41-C49B5DB1BAC64474&slid=206275. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
- ^ "Karen Bach" (in Italian). www.ecologiasociale.org. http://www.ecologiasociale.org/pg/dum_fem_bach.html. Retrieved 2009-12-09.
