CoCo Brown

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CoCo Brown
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Brown at the AVN Awards, 2013
Born16 September 1978
Other namesHoney Love, Ms no tonsils
Occupation(s) Rapper, disc jockey, former pornographic film actress
Notable work Antibodies (film), Black Panty Chronicles 2
Spouse
Andreas Gauger
(m. 2001;div. 2010)
[1] [2]

CoCo Brown (born 16 September 1978) also known by her rap stage name as "Ms No Tonsils" is an American rapper, DJ, and former pornographic film actress. [3] [4] Coco has also acted in a German crime thriller film written and directed by Christian Alvart.

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Early life

Brown moved to Las Vegas with her family when she was in middle school. [5] At age 15, she ran away from home and never returned. [5]

Career

Adult entertainment

Brown was stripping at Déjà Vu in Las Vegas, where she danced for about seven months, when she was discovered by porn producer Nicky Starks. [1] [2] She entered the adult film industry in 1998. Her first scene was in Bomb Ass Pussy. [2] She initially used the stage name Honey Love. [1] In 2001, she signed an exclusive deal with DBM, a studio for which she did about 19 films. [1] She began using the stage name CoCo Brown in her second film for the studio. [2] She stopped performing in adult films in 2003. [6] She once worked briefly as a dominatrix as well. [5]

Music

Brown launched a music career after quitting porn, She rapped under the stage name Ms No Tonsils between 2004 and 2009. [5] She is currently working as a DJ. [7]

Suborbital flight

Brown had signed up to go on a suborbital flight in 2016, which would have lasted approximately one hour and would have provided 90 seconds of weightlessness. [8] The flight was to have been arranged by the Space Expedition Corporation (SXC), a Netherlands-based space tourism company. [9] [10] This opportunity for her arose in 2012 when she received a "space luncheon" invite by a concierge she knew after another person canceled their appearance at the event. [7] She began training for the flight, with help from XCOR Aerospace, that same year. [8] [11] In preparation for the trip, she had to earn a pilot's license. [8] She was to have been the flight's co-pilot. [7] If the trip had taken place as planned, she would have been the first pornographic actress on a suborbital high altitude flight. [12] XCOR ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy in 2017 without flying a single person on their Lynx spaceplane. [13]

Personal life

Brown moved to Germany in 1999. [1] She was married to German millionaire Andreas Gauger between 2001 and 2010. [1] [2] She also has a son from a previous relationship. [5]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2005 Antibodies Michelle Crime thriller film

Awards and nominations

Venus Awards
YearResultAward
2002WonBest New Actress (Germany) [14]
2003NominatedBest Actress (Germany) [15]

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