Why Is She Famous?
Tanit Phoenix is the answer to one of life’s most difficult questions: Which celebrity would you most like to go naked skydiving with? A South African model and actress by trade, and a thrill-seeker off-set, Tanit Phoenix has the looks to melt you in half and the enlightened, free-spirited mind to put you back together with a smile on your face.
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Tanit Phoenix is the answer to one of life’s most difficult questions: Which celebrity would you most like to go naked skydiving with? A South African model and actress by trade, and a thrill-seeker off-set, Tanit Phoenix has the looks to melt you in half and the enlightened, free-spirited mind to put you back together with a smile on your face.
Tanit Phoenix is beautiful enough to seduce at will and brawny enough to kick ass when necessary. To put it in simpler terms: She’ll own you in the bedroom, and she’ll have your back in a bar fight. After all, her name means “goddess of the love,” and she’s trained in the explosive art of Muay Thai boxing. The South African edition of FHM gave her further beauty dues by featuring her on its 100 Sexiest Women list. We must say that we agree with this selection, otherwise, she might bite our skin while we’re asleep (one of her fetishes) — not that it wouldn’t be fun.
Tanit Phoenix is not one to ignore the career benefits that nudity and steamy sex can offer. She says she’s game for nudity and a spicy sex scene, as long as it doesn’t make her look bad (that would be very difficult). Thus far, her risque career moves have included prehistoric pole dancing, strip-sky diving (don’t ask, just watch) and multiple sex scenes in the film Maya, in which she hooked up with both the male and female leads.
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It takes a special kind of person to be coined “dangerously close to international stardom” at the 2005 Kay Oscars, and Tanit Phoenix fits the bill. Smart, sassy and sexy, she’s hopefully destined to follow the same career path as Charlize Theron, another South African-born beauty who started as a model. Since then, the South African editions of Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan have featured her prominently, as has Maxim (Europe), which named her as 2003’s Woman of the Year.
Also a frequent model in commercials, Tanit Phoenix has the type of beauty and on-screen charisma that keeps your attention and — gasp — leaves you in danger of buying the product. The horror! Now in the early stages of a film career, she has read lines opposite stars like Nicolas Cage and Jared Leto, while covering all of the important film genres thus far: TV series, cult comedy, crime drama, erotic thriller, and zombie horror — the last of which is Gallowwalker, in which she rubbed elbows with human box-office poison Wesley Snipes and lived to tell about it.
Get the full write-up and profile of Tanit Phoenix on AskMen.com here…