Christine Davray Bio Editor's Choice
March 10, 1947 / Pisces / Age 79
Christine Davray is a French-born Penthouse model, glamour model, and actress, born on March 10, 1947 in Besancon, France.
Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Christine Haydar, Christine MacKinnon or Marie Christine Aufferil.
Christine Davray was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in July 1977, stepping into the spotlight at 30 years old. With her statuesque 36-24-36 figure, charming brown eyes, rich brown hair, and natural breasts, Christine carries timeless confidence, where sophistication meets deeply captivating sensuality.
Some photographs arrive like careful conspiracies — images that promise a story beyond the frame. Christine Davray’s spread in Penthouse read exactly that way: not a centerfold so much as a cinematic whisper, a portrait that lingers in the imagination and refuses to be reduced to a single glance. It was continental glamour at its coolest, an invitation to lean closer without ever being rushed, a flirtation between restraint and revelation that feels designed to keep a reader coming back to the page.
She carried herself with a composure that felt deliberately private. In front of Jean-Yves Haydar’s lens her poses were restrained and exacting, her gaze suggestive of lives already lived and secrets lightly kept. The pages suggested motion, as if the camera had borrowed a stolen frame from some unseen film; that quiet daring — both cool and quietly provocative — gave her a camera presence that reads as confidence rather than spectacle, magnetic without the need for theatrics.
The narrative did not stop on glossy paper. By the late 1970s Christine Davray reinvented herself as Christine Haydar and became a major star in Turkey. The shift from glamour imagery into narrative cinema was seamless: she moved from erotic imagery into roles in films such as Une fille libre, Sarisin Tehlike, and Edith and Marcel, bringing to each performance the same poise and emotional depth that first arrested readers’ attention. Her journey across genres and geographies unfolded with an ease that suggested this was less reinvention than revelation.
For Penthouse, she remains a rare archetype — the Pet who crossed borders, both geographic and artistic, and turned a moment of glamour into a lasting international career. It is that arc, equal parts sultry stillness and steady metamorphosis, that keeps her portrait as appealing as the first time the pages opened to her, a memory that still sparkles with mischief and refined allure.
