Aiden Brady | |
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Born | Aiden Brady 22 February 1966 |
Other names | Aiden Shaw |
Years active | 1990–present |
Modelling information | |
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) |
Hair colour | Grey |
Eye colour | Blue |
Agencies | Sight Management Studio, Barcelona, Spain Why Not Models, Milan, Italy ContentsLondon, England |
Aiden Shaw (born Aiden Brady, 22 February 1966) [1] [2] is an English author, model, and former pornographic film actor. [3]
Aiden Brady was born on 22 February 1966 in Harrow, England. He graduated from the University of Brighton.[ citation needed ]
Shaw was signed to Success Models in Paris and Sight Management Studio in Barcelona. [4] Shaw was photographed by Giampaolo Sgura for Hercules International magazine. [5] In 2013, he was the face of Bytom, a Polish fashion company. [6] In 2014, Shaw walked for Berluti. [7] He was featured by New Zealand menswear brand Working Style for their Autumn Winter 2014 campaign. [8] In 2016, Shaw reverted to his birth name as he continued to model for international brands like Massimo Dutti. [9]
Brady adopted the last name "Shaw" in the early 1990s when he began working in gay pornography. [1] [10] He retired from the porn industry in 1999, but in 2004, he starred in another gay porn film with Hot House. [11] [12]
In 1991, Shaw collaborated with the New York artist Mark Beard to produce a limited edition publication titled Aiden. The book included several portraits of Shaw, with text written by both Beard and Shaw as a form of dialogue. [2]
Shaw published his first novel, Brutal, in 1996. Also in 1996, The Bad Press published a collection of his poems, If Language at the Same Time Shapes and Distorts our Ideas and Emotions, How do we Communicate Love? [13] He wrote two more novels: Boundaries (1997) and Wasted (2001), and an autobiography, My Undoing (2006) in which he discusses his life in the sex industry as a porn star and sex worker, his drug use, and his HIV status (Shaw was diagnosed HIV positive in 1997). [14] [15]
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