Sharon Mitchell
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| Birthdate | January 18, 1956 |
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| Birth location | New Jersey, United States |
| Measurements | 34-24-35 |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Eye colour | Hazel |
| Hair colour | Brown |
| Skin colour | White |
| 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, with a pornographic career spanning over two decades.
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[edit] Adult film career
An adopted only child, raised Catholic, and briefly married at age 17, she was an Off-Broadway actress and dancer who toured with the Martha Graham company, before becoming an adult actress in the mid 1970s.[1]
During her career in hardcore pornography, she appeared in over 2000 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[2], Legends of Erotica[3] and XRCO Hall of Fame[4].
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.[5]
During her adult work, Mitchell was addicted to heroin for about two decades,[1] a habit which she eventually overcame. She contracted hepatitis from needle use.[5] She subsequently referred to her 16-year addiction to heroin as her "blackout years".[6]
On March 30, 1996, she was attacked and raped by a stalker who almost killed her. After that incident, she left the sex industry.[1]
[edit] Awards
- 1982 CAFA Best Supporting Actress for Blue Jeans (Tied with Lisa De Leeuw)[7]
- 1983 CAFA Best Actress for Sexcapades[7]
- 1983 CAFA Best Supporting Actress for Night Hunger[7]
- 1984 AVN Best Actress - Film for Sexcapades[8]
[edit] Partial Filmography.
- Joy (1977)
- Debbie Does Dallas : The Next Generation (1997)
[edit] 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
[edit] Sex worker health work
After the end of her adult career, Mitchell obtained a Ph.D. degree in human sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. In 1998 she founded the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, an organization which provides information and STD testing to workers in adult entertainment. It is important to note that while she is the Director of AIMHCF, and is refered to as "Dr. Sharon Mitchell" she is not a medical doctor.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Nick Madigan (2004-05-10). "Voice of Health in a Pornographic World". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C05EEDF123CF933A25756C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.[]
- ^ "Hall of Fame". http://www.avnawards.com/halloffame.php. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
- ^ "Legends of Erotica". http://www.ainews.com/story/12687/. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ "XRCO Hall of Fame". http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/hall.htm. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ a b "Sharon Mitchell Chat at Court TV Online". courttv.com. 2001-07-30. http://www.courttv.com/talk/chat_transcripts/2001/0723mitchell.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.
- ^ "Sharon Mitchell Chat at Adult DVD Talk". adultdvdtalk.com. 2000-08-23. http://www.adultdvdtalk.com/chat/sharon_mitchell.asp. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
- ^ a b c "rame awards list". http://www.rame.net/library/lists/best.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ "AVN Awards Past Winners". 1984. http://www.avnawards.com/pastwinners.php. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sharon Mitchell |
- Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
- Voice of Health in a Pornographic World, The New York Times
- Interview with SexHerald.com
- Biography at LukeIsBack.com
