Annette Haven | |
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Born | |
Other names | Nanette Heaven, Annette Funette, Cheryl Nelson, Annette Robinson |
Years active | 1973–2003 |
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
Annette Haven (born December 1, 1954) is an American former pornographic actress popular during the 1970s and 1980s. [1]
Haven was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and raised in a Mormon family. [2] Following the dissolution of her marriage, Haven moved to San Francisco, where she worked early on as a nurse's aide, exotic dancer, massage parlor girl and eventually as a stripper. While working in one of the strip clubs, she met porn star Bonnie Holiday and moved in with her and Holiday's boyfriend. [3]
She was introduced to the sex industry through a role in a film called Lady Freaks in 1973 starring Holiday. Annette Haven went on to work in nearly 100 porn movies, including Desires Within Young Girls (1977), Barbara Broadcast (1977), A Coming of Angels (1977), Obsessed (1977), Sex World (1977), Dracula Sucks (aka Lust At First Bite) (1978), Maraschino Cherry (1978), Charli (1981) and The Grafenberg Spot (1985).
Haven had a mainstream cameo role in Blake Edwards's 10 . Subsequently, she was considered to play the lead female role in Body Double , but the role went to Melanie Griffith because Brian De Palma believed she gave a better dramatic screen test than Haven. [4] Afterwards she became one of the director's consultants for Body Double and was a coach for Griffith. [4] Before filming Body Double De Palma commented, "I'm already thinking of casting. I don't know if there's any good young porno stars out here, but the older ones—Annette Haven, Seka—some of them can really act. And Annette Haven has a terrific body." [5]
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