Céline Bara

Céline Bara was born in Antony and grew up in the Parisian region. Her mother is of Mauritian origin[1] and she also has a German grandfather.[2] According to her own account, she received a Catholic fundamentalist education. She later rejected this upbringing and became a militant atheist.[3] 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.[4] In 2000, she was nominated for the Hot d'Or for Best New French Starlet.[5]

She performed for several French porn companies, but she and her husband eventually created their own studio, with Cyrille Bara directing the films.[4] However, their small company was soon heavily in debt.[6]

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.[7]

After their release, the Baras, unemployed and heavily indebted, lived from welfare benefits.[2][4] They eventually settled in Ariège, where Céline Bara found occasional work as a stripper.[8] They eventually started shooting new pornographic videos, which they distributed for free on their website.[9][10] 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-style comic featuring BDSM themes.[11]

In 2012, after applying unsuccessfully to the French Communist Party and the New Anticapitalist Party for candidacy in the legislative elections, Céline Bara and her husband created their own political party, a far left group called the Antitheist and Libertine Movement, of which themselves and a friend were the only three members.[4] She then ran for parliament in Ariège on an "anti-capitalist" and "anti-religious" platform, presenting herself as a communist and "neo-stalinist" candidate. Her husband was also her running mate.[4][9] 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.[12][13] She eventually received 1.58% of the votes in Ariège.[14]

In September 2012, Céline Bara announced that she was putting an end to her career as a porn performer.[15]

On 8 February 2013 she was declared ineligible for a period of three years by the Constitutional Council of France for not having deposited her campaign returns.[16]

• 2007 : La Sodomite,[17] co-authored with Cyrille Bara (ISBN 978-2-9530330-0-7)

• Official website
• MAL website
• Céline Bara at IMDb
• Céline Bara at the Internet Adult Film Database
• Céline Bara at the Adult Film Database
• Céline Bara at the European Girls Adult Film Database