Nina Hartley 1959 67
Nina Hartley 1959 67
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.
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2025 Anything That Moves as Vicky
2022 Sex with Sue as Self
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 X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time as Self
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 The Naked Feminist as Self
2003 Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography
2002 Desperately Seeking Seka as Self
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
1992 The Erotic Adventures of the Three Musketeers as Prudence
1990 Playpen of the Damned as Herself