JOANNA ANGEL

'Joanna Angel' (born December 25, 1980) is an American entrepreneur, alt porn model, pornographic actress, director, writer, and former exotic dancer. She used her real first name of Joanna for her stage name. 'Each time it's more fun' Shahar Smooha

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Awards

Partial filmography

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Angel was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Orthodox Israeli mother and an American father, who had met in Israel when he was a student there. She was raised in northern New Jersey as an Orthodox Jew.^[1] She attended Cherry Hill Elementary School in River Edge, N.J. and graduated from River Dell High School (Oradell N.J.) in 1998. After graduating at age 17 she enrolled in Rutgers University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with a minor in Film Studies.
She worked in a Jewish fast food restaurant during high school, then at an Applebees and another restaurant during college.^[2]
After finishing her degree she created the website ''BurningAngel'', a hardcore adult site catering to an emerging genre dubbed "alt porn" while she danced as a stripper at night. Her website followed in the footsteps of the very popular ''SuicideGirls'' -- which she referred to as "the McDonald's of alt porn," but offers more explicit sexual imagery.^[3]

Career

Joanna has written, produced, directed and starred in films available exclusively through ''BurningAngel,'' as well as appearing in more traditionally distributed adult films. She is currently under an exclusive contract with VCA Pictures which expires March of 2007, and was at one time represented by the adult talent agency Bad Ass Models.
Due to the success of ''BurningAngel,'' Angel has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including an article written in the New York Times. ^[4] She was nominated in 2006 for the Adult Video News Awards for both "Best New Starlet" and "Best Actress", and although she won neither, she did take home the award for "Most Outrageous Sex Scene" for her appearance in ''Re-Penetrator''.
She briefly wrote a monthly sexual-advice column for Spin Magazine. She also contributed a chapter to the book ''Naked Ambition: Women Pornographers and How They Are Changing the Sex Industry''.^[5]

Awards

★ '2006' AVN Award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene - ''Re-Penetrator'' AVN Award Winners Announced

Partial filmography

★ ''The XXXorcist'' (2006) (Performer)

★ ''Ass Angels 5'' (2006) (Performer)

★ ''Cum On My Tattoo'' (2006) (Director, Performer)

★ ''Lewd Conduct 27'' (2006) (Performer)

★ ''Mouth 2 Mouth 6'' (2006) (Performer)

★ ''Virgin Territory'' (2006) (Performer)

★ ''2wice As Nice'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''BurningAngel.com - The Movie'' (2005) (Director, Performer)

★ ''Fuck Dolls 7'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Gothsend 4'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Tristan Taormino's House of Ass'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Intimate Strangers'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Joanna's Angels'' (2005) (Director, Performer)

★ ''Joanna's Angels 2: Alt Throttle'' (2005) (Director, Performer)

★ ''Kill Girl Kill 3'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Neu Wave Hookers'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Re-Penetrator'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Young Ripe Mellons 8'' (2005) (Performer)

★ ''Young Sluts, Inc, 19'' (2005) (Performer)

References

1. JOANNA ANGEL
2. Joanna Angel Cindi Loftus
3. Wanted List Magazine interview
4. Wearing Nothing but Attitude, Robert Lanham, ''New York Times'', May 1, 2005. (Archived at ''RobertLanham.com'')
5. Naked Ambition at Amazon.com

External links

★ Joanna Angel Audio Interview at Adult DVD Talk

★ Joanna Angel interview at Eros-Zine.com

★ Joanna Angel Interview at XRentDVD

★ Joanna Angel Interview at FormatMag.com

★ Joanna Angel Interview at Porn Valley News

★ A series of interviews, archived by Luke Ford, ''LukeIsBack.com''.

★ Photos from 2007 AVN Expo at PollyStaffle.com

★ "Brooklyn Angel: Joanna Angel builds a New York porn empire one sex comedy at a time", by Tristan Taormino, ''Village Voice'', December 22, 2005.

★ Interview with Xcitement magazine

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★ BurningAngel.com

★ JoannaAngels.com Movie Website