Nina Hartley
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Hartley attending the 2013 AVN Awards show at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2013
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Marie Louise Hartman March 11, 1959 Berkeley, California, United States |
| Other names | Nina Hartman, Nina Hartwell, Nina Vismey, |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
| Weight | 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st) |
| Spouse(s) | Ernest Greene (2003–present) |
| Website | www |
| No. of adult films | 1028 as actress, 18 as director (per IAFD) |
Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959) is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author.
Marie Louise Hartman was born in Berkeley, California, to a Lutheran father and a Jewish mother (born 1926) whose family was from Alabama. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the youngest of four children, with an older sister and two older brothers. Her parents were communists who converted to Buddhism when she was young. 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. She was a registered nurse per the California Board of Registered Nursing until her license expired in 1986.
In 1982, during her sophomore year of nursing school, she started working as a stripper at the Sutter Cinema and later the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater. She made her foray into the world of pornographic movies during her junior year in 1984. Her debut performance was in the film Educating Nina, making her a protégée of Juliet Anderson.
Explaining how Marie Louise Hartman became Nina Hartley, she stated in an interview that she chose the name "Nina" because it was easy for Japanese tourists to say during the time she was a dancer in San Francisco; "Hartley" was chosen as it was close to her own real last name and because she "wanted a name that sounded like that of a real person". She stated that when she got into the adult business, she was blessed with two popular fetish items: "big, baby-blue eyes and that round butt with a high, small waist", with her buttocks becoming her trademark.
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