Clair Dia
Known For: Acting
Biography
Raven-haired Clair Dia was born Emily Smith, a redhead, in Los Angeles and raised in the San Fernando Valley. She attended City College in San Francisco and majored in occupational therapy. She then worked as a secretary before traveling the country and making porn loops for traveling cash, which landed her in the October 1971 Playboy article "The Porno Girls." Her feature debut was in What About Jane: An Erotic Soap Opera (1972). During an early screening of this film, she, a castmate, and the director were arrested and thrown in jail on obscenity charges, but spent only four hours there before being released. Clair went on to star in over 20 adult films and directed two more (she had attended Berkeley Film Institute where she studied filmmaking). Even in the films she directed, Clair managed to appear in brief walk-on roles.
Filmography
1987
- Legends of Porn as (archive footage)
1980
- Behind Closed Doors ... (Director)
1979
- Summer Heat as Rea
- Screwples as Unwilling Interviewee (uncredited)
1978
- Doctor Dracula as Mary
- Carnal Haven as Second Hooker
- The Health Spa as Redheaded Club Member
1977
- Her Last Fling
- Desires Within Young Girls as Penelope 'Penny' Stone
- Fantastic Orgy as (archive footage)
1976
- Naked Afternoon as Lily
- The Journey of O as Ophelia Day
- Love Secrets as Katie
- Sharon's Rosebud as Sharon's Sister
1975
- A Film About Sharon as Self
- 3 A.M. as Stacey
1974
- Lucifer's Women as Mary
1973
- The Cheerleaders as Suzie (as Sandy Evans)
- Rings of Passion as Marcy (as Veronica Pink)
1972
- Ramäge (Mobility Cathexis) as (as Anama Anis)
- Little Sisters as Emily
- What About Jane as Jane
- April Love as Laura
1971
- The Nurses as Mr. Bainbridge's Nurse