Candida Royalle Real Name: Candice Marion Vadala She/Her

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Candida Royalle's real name is Candice Marion Vadala, as reported by mainstream sources cited on Wikipedia. Candida Royalle was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, adult actress, sex educator, and sex-positive feminist.

Career

She was a member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame. After graduating from the Parsons School of Design, she moved to California and began performing with the avant-garde theater group The Cockettes. In 1975, she began her career as a adult performer, appearing in about 25 movies including Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls. Her final film was Blue Magic in 1980, which she also wrote. Their goal was making erotica based on female desire, as well as adult films aimed at helping couple therapy. In 1989, she signed the Post Porn Modernist Manifesto. Royalle wrote regular columns for adult magazines High Society and Cheri. A five-track EP titled Candida Cosmica, a collaboration between Royalle and Patrick Cowley from the mid-1970s, was released in October 2016 by Dark Entries Records. Royalle was a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and a founding board member of Feminists for Free Expression. It was directed by Sheona McDonald and distributed by Mbur Indie Film Distribution.

Awards and recognition

In 1997, she was presented with the Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award as a director.

Beyond adult film

Trained in music, dance and art in New York City, she studied at the High School of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design and the City College of New York. In early 1984, she founded Femme Productions together with Lauren Neimi. In 1983, Royalle, along with Gloria Leonard, Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera founded Club 90, the first adult film actress support group.

About the stage name

Candida Royalle is the professional name; the birth name, Candice Marion Vadala, is publicly documented in mainstream reporting cited on Wikipedia. realnameof.com lists real names only when the person disclosed them or mainstream outlets reported them.