Monique Covét (born July 14, 1976 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian adult film actress and model. From 1995 to 2001, she appeared in more than thirty movies for the Private Media Group, often as the star of the fetish-oriented films produced by the company's subsidiary Pirate label.

Personal background and early career

Monique began working as a professional model at the age of 16 posing for local advertisements in her hometown of Budapest and at various studios in Germany, where she lived for eight years. She eventually progressed to topless and finally nude modeling. During that time she had left high school and studied marketing.

By her own account, she started her career in the world of hardcore porn almost by accident. After arriving in Paris for what she believed was another series of routine modeling shoots, her agent there recommended her for a Private Media casting session where she met French hardcore director and actor, Pierre Woodman. "They offered me a lead role right away as they said I had star quality," she said. "I am the kind of person who tries everything once. Everyone was so kind to me. I thought that if this is the situation, why not try it?"

In 1995, Monique signed an exclusive four-year contract with Private Media Group. That year she did her first sex scene with Frank Versace on a boat in Sydney Harbour (it is featured on the compilation Private Video Magazine 21).

In 1999 she made her first movie for the Pirate label, Xtreme Desires.
Xtreme Desires also marked the first of her several collaborations with London-based hardcore fetish filmmaker, Tanya Hyde, including Tanya Hyde's Twisted Dreams (1999), Tanya Hyde's London Calling (2000), Hell, Whores and High Heels (2000) and Tanya Hyde's Rubberfuckers Rule (2001) — all produced as part of the Pirate Deluxe Video fetish series.

Erotic persona and style

In both her personal and professional life, Monique Covét is an outspoken and avid devotee of the BDSM and kink-fetish subculture. Monique is known for her kinky, polyamorous, pansexual tastes, which include men, women and transsexuals. She has also expressed a desire to shoot a lesbian scene with American porn starlet Jenna Jameson. She has said "I like the fetish films very much, because I am a deviant person and I like to play. I would also like to play a romantic movie, but it's not too easy to play like you're in love when you don't know the people."

Monique especially enjoys mounting her male partners from behind and penetrating them anally with large strap-on dildos. When questioned about her particular kink she memorably replied "If we women have to take it from behind, then why not a man?"

Later career and life after Private

After leaving Private in 2001, Monique retired for a year to devote herself to gymnastics, horses and obtaining a driver's license. In 2003 she signed a contract with Boss Films and appeared in her first movie for the company, Shining Sex, that same year.

Monique has also confessed to having had problems in the past separating her professional work from her personal sex life, but she has since learned to adequately compartmentalize the two. An intelligent and accomplished woman (despite the fact that it took her a year to learn how to drive), she holds a diploma in accounting, speaks four languages (Hungarian, English, French and German) and is reputed to be pursuing a long-term relationship in her personal life. Although she admits that finding a man who can accept her strong personality and open sexuality is "very, very hard".

By 2004 Monique Covét had effectively retired from adult movies.

In recent years she has been active running her own hardcore production company, the Monique Covét Group, and hosting weekly live sex shows at the Clan Restaurant in Budapest. She continues to make numerous public appearances where she meets with her fans from all over Europe and has said that she may even perform in front of the camera again one day.

Awards

• 1998 Pirate Girl of the Year Award

• 2002 Venus Award for Best Eastern European Erotic Actress (shared with Rita Faltoyano)

• 2004 Jury Actress Award at the Berlin Erotic Film Festival

• 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brussels Erotic Film Festival

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