In 2010, she said, "Now I work with women who are younger than my breast implants." Īs of 2015 Hartley was still actively making adult films. Hartley played the part of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 pornographic parody film Who's Nailin' Paylin?, with Lisa Ann in the role of Sarah Palin. įor many years, she also toured the United States and Canada as a stripper and made personal appearances at adult shops. In 1992, she directed her first movie, Nina Hartley's Book of Love. In the 1980s and early 1990s, she starred in several of the Debbie Does film series spin-offs such as Debbie Duz Dishes (1986) and Debbie Does Wall Street (1991). She stated that when she got into the adult business, she was blessed with two popular fetish items: "big, baby-blue eyes and that round butt with a high, small waist", with her buttocks becoming her trademark. Įxplaining how Marie Louise Hartman became Nina Hartley, she stated in an interview that she chose the name "Nina" because it was easy for Japanese tourists to say during the time she was a dancer in San Francisco "Hartley" was chosen as it was close to her own real last name as possible and because she "wanted a name that sounded like that of a real person." Īs of 2017 she had appeared in more than one thousand adult films. Hartley has been described by news outlets as "one of the best-known actresses in the industry" and "a legend in the adult world". In 1994, she began her line of instructional videos that are marketed under the Nina Hartley's Guide brand. Her pornographic film debut was in Educating Nina, where she was cast and directed by fellow performer Juliet Anderson. She began working in pornography in 1984, which she saw as a way to make a career of having sex. In 1982, during her sophomore year of nursing school, she started working as a stripper at the Sutter Street Theatre, and later the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre. Hartley has said she saw the 1976 erotic film The Autobiography of a Flea by Sharon McNight, alone at a theater in San Francisco and chose her life's work: making porn. She was a registered nurse until her license expired in 1986. Īfter graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and graduated magna cum laude in 1985. Hartley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and as a teenager self-identified as a feminist. Her father was blacklisted in 1957 for his communist beliefs. Hartley's parents were members of the CPUSA who converted to Buddhism when she was young. Her maternal grandfather, Joseph Gelders, was a University of Alabama physics professor who was a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) party member in the 1930s. Hartley was born in Berkeley, California to a Lutheran father, Louis Hartman, and a Jewish mother, Blanche Hartman (née Gelders), whose family was from Alabama.
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