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

• 1987Legends of Porn — (archive footage)
• 1980Behind Closed Doors — Director
• 1979Screwples — Unwilling Interviewee (uncredited), Director, Production Manager
• 1979Summer Heat — Rea
• 1978Carnal Haven — Second Hooker
• 1978Doctor Dracula — Mary
• 1978The Health Spa — Redheaded Club Member, Director
• 1977Desires Within Young Girls — Penelope 'Penny' Stone
• 1977Fantastic Orgy — (archive footage)
• 1977Her Last Fling
• 1976Love Secrets — Katie
• 1976Naked Afternoon — Lily
• 1976Sharon's Rosebud — Sharon's Sister
• 1976The Journey of O — Ophelia Day
• 19753 A.M. — Stacey
• 1974Lucifer's Women — Mary
• 1973Rings of Passion — Marcy (as Veronica Pink)
• 1973The Cheerleaders — Suzie (as Sandy Evans)
• 1972April Love — Laura
• 1972Little Sisters — Emily
• 1972Ramage (Mobility Cathexis) — (as Anama Anis)
• 1972What About Jane — Jane
• 1971The Nurses — Mr. Bainbridge's Nurse

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1975A Film About Sharon — Self