Brigitte Lahaie

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Brigitte Lahaie (born Brigitte Lucie Jeanine Van Meerhaeghe; 12 October 1955) is a French radio talk show host, mainstream film actress and former pornographic actress. She performed in erotic films from 1976 through 1980 and is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.

== Early life and background ==
Brigitte Lucie Jeanine Van Meerhaeghe was born in Tourcoing, France. She left home for Paris when 18 years old, where she started working as a shoe salesgirl. Soon, she was noticed for her physique and accepted a proposal to pose in the nude for erotic magazines.

== Cinema ==

=== Porn ===
She started working at age 20 in the adult film industry in 1976, one year after the legalization of hardcore pornography in France, as “Brigitte Lahaie” and various other stage names. In her first film, she was a body double for another actress’ scenes.
Lahaie eventually played in more than one hundred erotic films, most of them hardcore, directed by among many others, Claude Mulot, José Bénazéraf, Gérard Kikoïne, Claude Bernard-Aubert, and Francis Leroi.
She chose to be listed as “Brigitte Lahaie” in most of them, her surname a transfer to French of her Flemish name “vanmeerhaeghe”, in which “haeghe” means…