Raffaëla Anderson

Raffaëla Anderson
Born	January 8, 1976 (1976-01-08) Montfermeil, France
Other names	Rafaella Rizzi, Raphaela Anderson, Raphaella Anderson, Raffaela Rizzi
Ethnicity	Berber French
Height	4 feet, 11 inches (150 cm)
No. of adult films	24 IAFD

Raffaëla Anderson (born 8 January 1976 in Montfermeil, France) is a Berber French former adult film performer. She is now a non-fiction writer and occasionally acts in mainstream productions.

Personal life

La Petite Morte, the 2003 documentary film by Emmanuelle Schick Garcia about the French pornography business, includes interviews with Anderson, who relates being sexually molested as a child by an uncle.She said in an interview with Thierry Ardisson that she is gay and happily in love and married with a woman.

Career

She studied secretary and then responded to an advertisement in a newspaper. She entered the French pornography business in 1995 when she was 19 and left it six years later. While still in adult films, she was raped by two men who recognized her as a porn actress. In the documentary, she explains how the prosecutor and judge in her case dismissed the rape with the attitude, “You’re an actress in pornographic films, so you can’t complain.”

Anderson played “Manu” in the controversial 2000 film, Baise-moi, an explicit French film about two women embarking on a journey of sex and violence with murder. Time magazine reviewed the film and noted, “And as one of the amoral avengers, Raffaela Anderson has true star quality...." In the 2004 mainstream film, Amour de Femme, she played a dance instructor who falls in love with a married woman.

In 2005 she participated, along with nine other current or former adult film performers, in the documentary Une vie classée X from Mireille Darc for the French TV channel France 3. She relates how she lost her virginity on camera, speaks of her family and background, and of the violence she suffered or witnessed in the porn industry. She also mentions cocaine and alcohol abuse during episodes of depression after leaving the pornography business.

Anderson wrote a book entitled, Hard, describing her experiences in the porn industry and decrying its abuses. In the documentary film La Petite Morte she voiced many of the same criticisms. In 2006, Tendre violence, a narration of her childhood with her Muslim family in Gagny was published.

References

• Hard, 2001 - Grasset Ed. - ISBN 2246615119
• Tendre violence, 2006 - Jean-Claude Lattès Ed. - ISBN 2709628287

External links

• Raffaëla Anderson at the Internet Movie Database
• Raffaëla Anderson at the Internet Adult Film Database
• Raffaëla Anderson at EGAFD
• Raffaëla Anderson at the Adult Film Database
• "La Petite Morte - To watch film.
• La Petite Morte – Official site of La Petite Morte.
• "Raffaela Anderson Interview - Interview footage from La Petite Morte.
• Une vie classée X - Documentary, requires registration to view.
• Interview with Thierry Ardisson.