Nina Hartley
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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Movies (39)
Anything That Moves
2025 · Vicky
Sex with Sue
2022 · Self
Who's Your Teacher
2021 · Self
I Wrote This for You
2020 · Bar Woman
The Bachelor Party
2018 · Nina Hartley
Hell's Kitty
2018 · Ms. Rommel
V-Card: The Film
2018 · Herself
Scumbag
2017 · Wanda
X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time
2016 · Self
Traceroute
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Sticky: A (Self) Love Story
2016 · Self
Addicted to Sexting
2015 · Self
Dude Bro Party Massacre III
2015 · Dean Pepperstone
How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come
2015 · Herself
X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time
2015 · Self
It's Not a Date
2014 · Aunt Cindy
Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story
2014 · Herself
The Last Playlist
2014 · Nina Hartley
Brad Warner's Hardcore Zen
2013 · Herself
After Porn Ends
2012 · Self
9to5: Days in Porn
2008 · Self
Adult Entertainment: Disrobing an American Idol
2007 · Herself
Thinking XXX
2004 · Self
The Secret Lives of Adult Stars
2004 · Herself
When Rated X Ruled the World
2004 · Self
The Naked Feminist
2004 · Self
Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography
2003
Fluffy Cumsalot: Porn Star
2003
Desperately Seeking Seka
2002 · Self
The History of Hardcore
2002 · Self
American Dummy
2002 · Sherry Weitz
Bad Girl
2001 · Self
Give Me Your Soul...
2000 · Self (uncredited)
Boogie Nights: Juegos de placer
1997 · Little Bill's Wife
Playboy's: Erotic Underground
1997 · Self - Lifestyles Organization Gathering
Bubbles Galore
1996 · Bubbles Galore
The Erotic Adventures of the Three Musketeers
1992 · Prudence
Playpen of the Damned
1990 · Herself
1. VTO Video Show '88
1988 · Self
