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Gail Harris | |
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 Harris at the XBiz Awards 2005 | |
| Born | Gail Thackray 16 December 1964 Batley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Other names | Robyn Harris |
| Occupation(s) | Model, actress, producer, magazine publisher |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
Gail Harris (born 16 December 1964) is a British model, actress, magazine publisher and industry entrepreneur.
Before her film industry work, Gail Thackray was a Page 3 girl (glamour model) for the British tabloid press. She then became a popular nude model from the mid–1980s, frequenting the pages of various pornographic magazines, including Knave , Penthouse , Mayfair , High Society , and Genesis . [1] In 1986, as Gail Thackray, she was featured on the front cover, centerfold.[ citation needed ]
After initially starting her acting career as an extra, she performed in low-budget B-movies, sexploitation films, and softcore pornographic productions in Hollywood, some of which involved nude scenes. In the mid-1980s, she notably appeared in numerous episodes of Electric Blue , an erotic show that was primarily broadcast on the Playboy Channel, in which she also performed nude. During this period, she co-starred with several other adult film stars such, as Kitten Natividad, Candie Evans, Taylor St. Clair, Ron Jeremy, and Ginger Lynn Allen. Furthermore, she began to specialize in performing stunt and body double work for various productions.[ citation needed ]
In 1990, Harris starred in two horror/action direct-to-video films for director Jim Wynorski. In Hard to Die , credited as Robyn Harris, she stars as a lingerie model who is trapped in a high-rise building with a madman and gets to fire a machine gun in skimpy underwear. [2] In Sorority House Massacre II , Harris plays the female lead as a co-ed terrorized by a serial killer.[ citation needed ]
Harris is popularly known as a "scream queen" and was named in the website Mr. Skin's Nudity Hall of Fame.[ citation needed ]
In 1988, Harris founded Falcon Foto, a prominent provider of adult-entertainment material to the publishing and Internet industries with a library of over 2 million images. [3] A 2004 USA Today story stated that Falcon Foto had the world's largest privately owned library of erotic photos, worth more than $25 million according to online experts. [4] Falcon Foto also serves as the major licensor of adult material to print publishing groups, contributing approximately 40% of all photo content in the industry. [5]
In 1988, Harris created the first niche adult magazine, Barely Legal, for Larry Flynt Publications, which became one of Flynt's best-selling titles. The launch of Barely Legal revolutionized the industry with 22 copycat titles appearing, as well as format changes in established publications and in the video medium. With a second title, Hometown Girls, published, in partnership with Flynt, Falcom became Flynt's third top earner. Falcon Foto's third announcement of a new title Virgins Magazine created a bidding war before the concept was even released. [6] [7]
When the Internet began to rapidly expand in the mid 1990s, Harris already had a viable pornographic business in place. [5] Falcon Foto began digitizing their entire library [8] for use on the Internet and by the early 2000s, Harris had created multiple Internet sites, such as FalconFoto.com, FalconFoto.net, [9] [10] and Falcongold.com, focusing on the pornographic 'niche' market. [11] In a 2003 interview, she stated the mission of her company was "[t]o provide the best adult content to satisfy the niche fantasy of every perv on the Internet." [12]
She also claimed her company had the distinction of being the "first to shoot a granny and the first to create an entire magazine devoted to young girls." Her other niche products included photos and videos for Barely Legal, Busty Beauties, Hometown Girls, 40+, Plumpers, and other magazines.[ citation needed ]
In 2003, Harris collaborated with Larry Flynt III to create Contrentrus.com, both producing and marketing pornographic video products. [13]
In 2006, Harris finished a year as a consultant for Flynt, putting her staff to work helping Flynt develop websites, Vegas casino projects, video lines, and a mobile operation within his empire. [3]
In 2006, Harris collaborated with pornographic actors Brandi Love and Chris Potoski to form Naked Rhino Media, a multimedia pornography site that featured exclusive niche-specific content. [14]
Harris met her first husband Scott Harris while skydiving in the United States. Scott was the photographer who parachuted into the Michael Jackson compound during the 6 October 1991 wedding for Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky. [15]
On 1 August 2004, Thackray married adult entertainment entrepreneur Jason Tucker. [4] On 19 February 2011, they were legally separated. [16]
Thackray retired from acting and producing in 2002 and stayed on as a resident of Los Angeles in the United States.[ citation needed ]
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