Joanna Angel
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Joanna Angel (born December 25, 1980) is an American entrepreneur, alt porn model, pornographic actress, film director, writer, and former exotic dancer. She used her real first name of Joanna for her stage name.
Biography
Early life
Angel was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Orthodox Jewish Israeli mother and an American father. She was raised in Orade, in northern New Jersey as an Orthodox Jew. She attended Cherry Hill Elementary School in River Edge, N.J. and graduated from River Dell High School 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.
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. When asked whether she thought that alt porn was turning into a movement she stated "I think it's a movement. I think I've started something."
Career
Joanna has written, produced, directed and starred in films available exclusively through BurningAngel, as well as appearing in more traditionally distributed Pornographic films. She was under an exclusive contract with VCA Pictures which expired in 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. 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. She also contributed a chapter to the book Naked Ambition: Women Pornographers and How They Are Changing the Sex Industry.
Awards
- 2006 AVN Award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene - Re-Penetrator (with Tommy Pistol)
- 2007 XBIZ Award – Crossover Move of the Year[28]
- 2008 XRCO Award – Best On-Screen Chemistry (with James Deen)[29]
- 2011 AVN Award – Best Porn Star Website (Editor's Choice) – JoannaAngel.com[30]
- 2011 AVN Award – Best Solo Sex Scene (Rebel Girl)[30]
- 2011 NightMoves Award – Best Director (Editor's Choice)[31]
- 2012 NightMoves Award – Best Individual Website (Editor's Choice) – JoannaAngel.com[31]
- 2012 NightMoves Triple Play Award (Dancing/Performing/Directing)[32]
- 2013 AVN Award – Best Porn Star Website – JoannaAngel.com[33]
- 2013 AVN Award – Best Solo Sex Scene (Joanna Angel: Filthy Whore)[33]
- 2013 NightMoves Award – Best Ink (Editor's Choice)[31]
- 2013 NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee[34]
- 2014 AVN Award – Best Porn Star Website – JoannaAngel.com (tied with AsaAkira.com)[35]
- 2015 AVN Award – Best Porn Star Website – JoannaAngel.com[36]
- 2016 AVN Hall of Fame inductee[37]
- 2016 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee[38]
- 2018 XBIZ Award - Best Actress - Comedy Release and Best Sex Scene - Comedy Release, (Jews Love Black Cock (Burning Angel/Exile)[39]
- 2019 XBIZ Award - Best Actress - Comedy Release (Dirty Grandpa (Burning Angel))[40]
- 2019 XBIZ Award - Best Supporting Actress (Talk Derby to Me (Sweetheart Video))[40])
- 2019 XBIZ Award - Best Sex Scene - All-Sex Release (Joanna Angel Gangbang: As Above, So Below (Burning Angel))[40]
Partial filmography
- Cum On My Tattoo (2006) (Director, Performer)
- BurningAngel.com - The Movie (2005) (Director, Performer)
- Tristan Taormino's House of Ass (2005) (Performer)
- Joanna's Angels (2005) (Director, Performer)
- Neu Wave Hookers (2005) (Performer)
- Re-Penetrator (2005) (Performer)
References
External links
- Joanna Angel profile in The New York Observer
- Joanna Angel Interview at Hustler World
- Joanna Angel Audio Interview at Adult DVD Talk
- Joanna Angel Interview at Sex-Kitten.net
- 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.
- "Brooklyn Angel: Joanna Angel builds a New York porn empire one sex comedy at a time", by Tristan Taormino, Village Voice, December 22, 2005.
- BurningAngel.com
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