Sharon Mitchell (born January 18, 1956) is a former erotic actress, with a pornography career spanning over two decades. She is currently the Director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which she established in 1998
An adopted only child, raised Catholic, and briefly married at age 17, she was an Off-Broadway actress and dancer who toured with the Martha Graham company, before becoming an adult actress in the mid-1970s.
During her career in hardcore adult films, she appeared in over 200 movies and directed 38. She made many appearances as a bondage model in underground magazines and, in the 1990s, made the transition from sex films to bondage and S&M videos, nearly always playing the role of a dominatrix.
She is a member of the AVN Awards Hall of Fame, Legends of Erotica and XRCO Hall of Fame.
As an erotic performer, Mitchell was a soft butch lesbian. She also performed sex scenes with men (often as part of a bisexual threesome with another female performer), but this was usually in her early career. She contracted herpes, chlamydia and trichomoniasis during her career.
During her adult work, Mitchell was addicted to heroin for nearly two decades, a condition she eventually overcame. She contracted hepatitis from needle use. She subsequently referred to her 16-year addiction to heroin as her "blackout years.
Mitchell had a relationship with production assistant and adult actress Tigr Mennett that was the basis of the 1986 movie Kamikaze Hearts.
On March 30, 1996, she was attacked and raped by a stalker who almost killed her. After that incident, she briefly left the sex industry, only to return to make sporadic appearances until retiring permanently in 2003, and earned a (non-accredited) Ph.D. from the (non-accredited) Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.
During her career in hardcore adult films, she appeared in over 200 movies and directed 38. She made many appearances as a bondage model in underground magazines and, in the 1990s, made the transition from sex films to bondage and S&M videos, nearly always playing the role of a dominatrix.
She is a member of the AVN Awards Hall of Fame, Legends of Erotica and XRCO Hall of Fame.
As an erotic performer, Mitchell was a soft butch lesbian. She also performed sex scenes with men (often as part of a bisexual threesome with another female performer), but this was usually in her early career. She contracted herpes, chlamydia and trichomoniasis during her career.
During her adult work, Mitchell was addicted to heroin for nearly two decades, a condition she eventually overcame. She contracted hepatitis from needle use. She subsequently referred to her 16-year addiction to heroin as her "blackout years.
Mitchell had a relationship with production assistant and adult actress Tigr Mennett that was the basis of the 1986 movie Kamikaze Hearts.
On March 30, 1996, she was attacked and raped by a stalker who almost killed her. After that incident, she briefly left the sex industry, only to return to make sporadic appearances until retiring permanently in 2003, and earned a (non-accredited) Ph.D. from the (non-accredited) Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.
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