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Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
11 Mar, 1959 (65 years old)

Nina Hartley

Biography

Marie Louise Hartman (born March 11, 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an "outspoken feminist" and "advocate for sexual freedom", and by CNBC as "a legend in the adult world". Her pornographic film debut was in Educating Nina (1984), where she was cast and directed by fellow performer Juliet Anderson. Since then she has gone on to become one of the most enduring and recognizable performers in the industry, winning numerous awards throughout her career from various critic and fan organizations. By 2017 she had appeared in more than one thousand adult films. Hartley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, after graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and graduated magna cum laude in 1985, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She was a registered nurse until her license expired in 1986. Hartley sought a career in pornography as a way to make a living by having sex, later telling Las Vegas Weekly, "Porn gave me easy access to women without having to date them or have a relationship." She writes that part of her reason for choosing sex work was to be able to indulge her exhibitionistic and voyeuristic streak. She has said she chose her life's work when she saw the 1976 erotic film The Autobiography of a Flea alone at a theater in San Francisco. In 1982, during her sophomore year of nursing school, she started working as a stripper at the Sutter Cinema and then the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre.

Known For

X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time
94 min 2015

X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time

Documentary Movie
After Porn Ends
90 min 2012

After Porn Ends

Documentary Movie
9to5: Days in Porn
113 min 2008

9to5: Days in Porn

Documentary Movie
Thinking XXX
58 min 2004

Thinking XXX

Documentary Movie
Boogie Nights
156 min 1997

Boogie Nights

Drama Movie