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Photo courtesy of Sharon Mitchell.
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| Birthdate: | January 18 1956 |
| Birth location: | New Jersey, United States |
| Measurements: | 34-24-35 |
| Height: | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Eye color: | Hazel |
| Hair color: | Brown |
| Skin color: | White |
| Orientation: | Bisexual |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
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Sharon Mitchell (born January 18, 1956) is the Director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which she set up in 1998. She used to be an erotic actress, and, with Sharon Kane, is considered to be one of the two most prolific adult movie actresses, with a career spanning over two decades.
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Adult film career
Before becoming a porn star, she was an Off-Broadway actress and dancer who toured with the Martha Graham company. During her career in hardcore pornography, she appeared in over 2,000 movies and directed 38. She made many appearances as a bondage model in underground magazines and, in the 1990s, made the transition from sex films to bondage and S&M videos, nearly always playing the role of a tough dominatrix. During her heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, she was distinguished by her lean, wiry physique and androgynous appearance — angular facial features with mascara and rouge and short teased hair, which was sometimes worn in a butch mullet style — as well as her vigorous cunnilingus technique. She is a member of the AVN Awards Hall of Fame[1], Legends of Erotica[2] and XRCO Hall of Fame[3]. As an erotic performer, Miss Mitchell was a soft butch lesbian. She also performed sex scenes with men (often as part of a bisexual threesome with another female performer), but this was usually in her early career. She contracted herpes, chlamydia and trichomoniasis during her career.[4] Later she became addicted to heroin, a habit which she successfully overcame, and she has been drug free since the early-1990s. She contracted hepatitis from needle use.[4] She subsequently refers to her 16-year addiction to heroin as her "blackout years".[5] [4] On March 30, 1996, she was attacked and raped by an admirer who almost killed her. After that incident, she left the sex industry.[6] Mitchell claims to have received a Ph.D. degree in human sexuality from an unaccredited institution known as the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.[7] At one time, the Institute claimed to be accredited by the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, which was not a recognized accreditor.[8]
Awards
- 1982 CAFA Best Supporting Actress for Blue Jeans (Tied with Lisa De Leeuw)[9]
- 1983 CAFA Best Actress for Sexcapades[9]
- 1983 CAFA Best Supporting Actress for Night Hunger[9]
- 1984 AVN Best Actress - Film for Sexcapades[10]
Partial Filmography.
- Joy(1977)
- Debbie Does Dallas : The Next Generation (1997)
Partial list of magazine appearances
- 1990: Tight Ropes 2/04 (House of Milan|HOM)
- 1991: Motorcycle Mistress Mamas #1 (Lyndon Distributors Limited|LDL)
- 1991: Special Request #2 (HOM)
- 1992: Boss Bitch in Bondage #1 (LDL)
- 1992: The Taming of June Bauer #1" (LDL)
- 1994: Punished (bondage magazine)|Punished 3/10 (HOM)
- 1995: Tied & Tickled 2/009
References
- ^ Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
- ^ "Legends of Erotica". Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ "XRCO Hall of Fame". Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ a b c Sharon Mitchell Chat at Court TV Online. courttv.com (2001-07-30). Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
- ^ Sharon Mitchell Chat at Adult DVD Talk. adultdvdtalk.com (2000-08-23). Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
- ^ Nick Madigan (2004-05-10). Voice of Health in a Pornographic World. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.[]
- ^ All About Sharon Mitchell, AIM Founder. Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
- ^ "Approval is not the same as accreditation."[1]
- ^ a b c "rame awards list". Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ AVN Awards Past Winners 1984. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
External links
- Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
- Voice of Health in a Pornographic World, The New York Times
- The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
- Interview with SexHerald.com
- Biography at LukeIsBack.com
