Nina Hartley

Nina Hartley

Birthdate
March 11, 1959 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Berkeley, California, USA
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
March 11, 1959 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Berkeley, California, USA
Known For
Acting

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.

Nina Hartley's LGBTQ+ Titles

Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights
Little Bill's Wife

Acting (39)

2022
Sex with Sue as Self
2022
Beyond Fantasy as Self (1 episode)
2021
Who's Your Teacher as Self
2020
I Wrote This for You as Bar Woman
2018
The Bachelor Party as Nina Hartley
2018
Hell's Kitty as Ms. Rommel
2018
V-Card: The Film as Herself
2017
Scumbag as Wanda
2016
Traceroute as Self (archive footage)
2016
Sticky: A (Self) Love Story as Self
2015
Addicted to Sexting as Self
2015
Dude Bro Party Massacre III as Dean Pepperstone
2015
How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come as Herself
2015
X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time as Self
2014
It's Not a Date as Aunt Cindy
2014
Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story as Herself
2014
The Last Playlist as Nina Hartley
2013
Brad Warner's Hardcore Zen as Herself
2012
After Porn Ends as Self
2008
9to5: Days in Porn as Self
2007
Adult Entertainment: Disrobing an American Idol as Herself
2004
Thinking XXX as Self
2004
The Secret Lives of Adult Stars as Herself
2004
When Rated X Ruled the World as Self
2004
Pornucopia: Going Down in The Valley (6 episodes)
2004
The Naked Feminist as Self
2003
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story as Herself
2002
The History of Hardcore as Self
2002
American Dummy as Sherry Weitz
2001
Bad Girl as Self
2000
Give Me Your Soul... as Self
1997
Boogie Nights as Little Bill's Wife
1996
Bubbles Galore as Bubbles Galore
1996
E! True Hollywood Story (2 episodes)
1992
The Erotic Adventures of the Three Musketeers as Prudence
1990
Playpen of the Damned as Herself
1984
AVN Awards (2 episodes)
1984
AVN Awards as Self (2 episodes)
1984
AVN Awards as Self - Host (2 episodes)