Alexandra Quinn | |
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 Quinn in Las Vegas, January 2000 | |
| Born | March 25, 1973 [1] [2] [3] Hamilton, Ontario, Canada [1] |
| Other names | Alexandra, Alexanderia Quinn, Alexandria Quinn, Dianne Colazzo [5] |
| Years active | 1989–1991, 2000–2006 |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [6] |
Alexandra Quinn (born Diane Purdie Stewart [4] on March 25, 1973) [3] is a Canadian former pornographic actress. [7]
Quinn was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. [1] She was a gymnast and jazz singer as a teenager. [7]
Quinn emigrated from Canada with a falsified passport and entered the adult entertainment industry in the late 1980s, while she was underage by using a fake ID. [8] [9] She began stripping in Canada when she was 14. [10] Two years later she met pornographic actress Erica Boyer and moved to Los Angeles with her. [10] Quinn began performing in adult films at the age of 16 after Boyer introduced her to agent Jim South. [7] Quinn misrepresented her birth year as 1968, which would have made her 22 at the time of her adult film debut. [1] Her first scene was in the film Space Virgins, and it was a five-person group sex scene with two men and two other women, besides Quinn. [10] She won the 1991 AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene - Video alongside Sunny McKay & Rocco Siffredi for their performance in Buttman's Ultimate Workout. [11] By November 1991 she had appeared in approximately 100 adult films, 60 of which were shot while she was still a minor. [12]
In 1991, Quinn forgot to bring her fake ID to an adult film shoot once and decided to use her real one instead, hoping that no one would notice. [8] She had been working in the adult film industry for over a year but had only turned 18 seven months earlier. [2] This discrepancy on her identification card revealed that she was underage in her earlier adult film appearances. [1] On October 31, 1991, the adult film industry began to destroy the dozens of films she was featured in while she was still a minor. [9] [12] She had a breast augmentation surgery on the day of her 18th birthday, which made it easier to distinguish which films were shot while she was still underage and which ones were not. [8]
The Quinn case is mentioned often, usually together with the Traci Lords underage porn case, in sociological studies [13] and true crime books. [14] These cases triggered a media debate which ended with the passing of the Communications Decency Act in 1996. [15]
Quinn was unwelcome in the adult film industry after her real age was revealed. [6] She later had a $3,500/week contract with the Centerfold strip club in Memphis, which was terminated on October 28, 1993, because, according to Quinn, she refused to allow patrons to touch her. [16] In 1996 she contacted several adult-film production companies in an attempt to resume her career. [7] It took her eight years, after her real age was discovered, to begin working in adult films again on a regular basis. [6] During her eight-year hiatus she only appeared in five pornographic films. [6] Nearing age 30, she began getting cast in the MILF genre in 2000. [7] She was generally welcomed back into the adult film industry; however, Adam & Eve refused to distribute any films containing footage of her. [17] She retired from adult films in 2006. [7]
Quinn married the manager of a strip club called Tiffanies in Phoenix when she was 19 but divorced him four years later. [10]
Quinn was a witness in the murder investigation of Christopher Walsh, which was featured in the true crime novel Nobody Walks. [18]
| Year | Ceremony | Result | Category | Film |
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| 1991 | AVN Award [11] | Won | Best Group Sex Scene - Video (with Sunny McKay & Rocco Siffredi) | Buttman's Ultimate Workout |
| 1991 | XRCO Award [19] | Won | Sex Scene Of The Year (with Sunny McKay & Rocco Siffredi) | Buttman's Ultimate Workout |
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