Belladonna (porn star)
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Belladonna (born Michelle Anne Sinclair on May 21, 1981 is an American porn star.
Early life
Michelle Anne Sinclair was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah in a Mormon household. Her father was a retired Air Force captain and former Mormon Bishop. She has seven siblings: three brothers, three sisters and a half sister from her mother. Her parents are divorced and both have remarried.
Sinclair had a turbulent childhood: at age 11 she attempted suicide, at age 12 she was stealing her father's car and got her first tattoo at age 13. At age 15 she dropped out of high school.
Career
Belladonna got into the adult film industry after she moved to Los Angeles, California to become a nude model. She has appeared in over 250 adult films with the majority of them being anal-themed. She now owns and operates Belladonna Entertainment with her partner and husband, Aiden Kelly. She produces her own movies under Belladonna Entertainment and Deadly Nightshade Productions, exclusively distributed by Evil Angel. Since 2004 she has exploded in popularity, taking the place of many more well-known longtime actresses who perform in standard/typical porn films.
She often stars in anal sex, interracial and lesbian themed adult films, and has become best known and most popular for the latter. She has performed double anal (a rarity in the adult film industry) multiple times. She has also performed in scenes with transsexual performers, during which she has oral, anal, and vaginal sex, without condoms. She continued to perform while already visibly pregnant. She has built a reputation for her ability to perform in almost any theme in mainstream porn, and for her willingness to perform in almost any sexual scenario.
She has appeared several times in the reality television series Family Business, which focuses on the life of porn director Adam Glasser a.k.a. "Seymore Butts". In 2004 she was one of a number of porn stars photographed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for a "coffee table book" on the adult industry, XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits; she also appears in the HBO documentary Thinking XXX about the making of the book.
Media attention from Primetime
Her career in the pornography business was followed for two years by a crew from American Broadcasting Company Television, culminating in a January 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer as part of a Primetime Thursday segment on pornography. During the interview she broke down in tears. Following its broadcast Belladonna condemned what she felt had been unfair treatment at the hands of Sawyer and the ABC staffers, saying the segment had portrayed her as a victim and that the interview was edited to convey the misleading impression that she had been forced to perform against her will.
One topic discussed in the interview was the fact that she had contracted chlamydia.
The interview has since been used by a number of anti-pornography pressure groups to support their case that pornography is exploitative of the women who appear in it; nevertheless, Belladonna remains an active performer in the industry. In later interviews, Belladonna claimed that she had never intended to make "anti-porn" statements, and that Primetime had deliberately taken many of her statements out of context in order to give the segment a negative slant. In one interview, when she was asked if she was happy how the interview came out, her reply was:
| “ | I am not happy about Primetime but I would love to see the whole story air one day so everyone can see how much I had to say that was FOR the porn industry. If you know me you know that I LOVED shooting! | ” |
Lesbian-themed film fame
Since late 2003 she has almost exclusively acted in lesbian scenes; she also started to direct and produce her own lesbian-themed films, in which she is almost always dominant. She often takes part in outlandish acts in lesbian scenes, and has built a fanbase based solely upon these films. In several of her lesbian films, she has showcased her ability to bring other actresses to squirting orgasms (many claiming it to be their first), and often performs intense and relentless anal penetrations on them with two or more fingers, or with extremely large dildos. Actresses performing with her sometimes show tears during the more intense performances, later claiming they enjoyed it more than any previous scenes they have taken part in with any other actor or actress.
She also frequently pulls their hair, spanks them, spits on them, and gives verbal commands or exchanges "dirty talk." Usually, her female co-stars are more timid and petite women who act more in a submissive role, although occasionally, she performs with another female who is equally as intense and dominant as she is. When performing with an equally dominating actress, the scenes often become intense, to the extent that both she and her fellow performer have bruises after sex. In lesbian-based films, she generally prefers that those performing with her perform rough anal on her with either 3 or more fingers or a large dildo to bring her to orgasm.
It is these rough, dominant lesbian films for which she has become best known. Though married to a man, Belladonna is bisexual.
Semi-Retirement
In August, 2007 Belladonna decided to semi-retire from performing with other people over concerns of STD's, specifically herpes simplex.
Personal life
She was formerly engaged to fellow porn actor Nacho Vidal]]. On April 11, 2004, she married Aiden Kelly in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her daughter, Myla, was born on January 11, 2005.
Awards
- 2002 AVN Award for Best All-Sex Video - Buttwoman Iz Bella
- 2003 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (Film) - The Fashionistas
- 2003 AVN Award for Best Oral Sex Scene (Film) - The Fashionistas
- 2003 AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress (Film) - The Fashionistas
- 2003 AVN Award for Best Tease Performance - The Fashionistas
- 2004 Night Moves Award for Best Gonzo - Belladonna's Evil Pink
- 2004 AVN Award for Best Couples Sex Scene - Back 2 Evil
- 2005 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Feature - ConnASSeur
- 2006 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Feature - Belladonna's Fucking Girls
- 2006 XRCO Award for Best Girl/Girl Movie - Belladonna's Fucking Girls
- 2006 Fans of Adult Media and Entertainment Awards for Favorite Gonzo Movie - Belladonna: No Warning
- 2007 F.A.M.E. Award for Dirtiest Girl in Porn
Trivia
- Belladonna has a sacred heart tattoo on her left breast. The tattoo is also the trademarked logo for Belladonna Entertainment. She has nine other tattoos. However, Belladonna's favorite tattoo is the word 'Loyal' located on her lower back.
- Belladonna is naturally a dirty blonde but she frequently dyes her hair various colors such as black. She occasionally shaves her head. Particularly when performing in a butch lesbian themed production she will adopt a buzz cut hairstyle. Belladonna occasionally dons wigs for some productions.
- Another distinguishing characteristic is a gap in between her front teeth.
- Belladonna was one of the first porn stars to deep throat Lexington Steele.
External links
Interviews
- Interview at Mr.WebReview.com, March 2004
- Interview 2005 at FoundryMusic.com
- AVN 2006 Interview at GameLink.com
- Interview #1 (January 2002) and interview #2 (March 2003) at RogReviews.com
- Belladonna interview at Eros-Zine.com, March 2007
- Belladonna QA at Good Vibrations, April 2007
- A Day with Belladonna (Part 1) at The 213 by Jason Coleman June 2007
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