Annie Sprinkle Real Name: Not Public She/Her

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Real name not publicly disclosed: realnameof.com has not found a real name for Annie Sprinkle that the performer shared or mainstream outlets reported, so none is listed. Sprinkle is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former sex worker, filmmaker, and advocate for the decriminalization of sex work.

Career

At eighteen, she began working at the ticket booth at the Cine-Plaza Theatre in Tucson, Arizona, when Deep Throat was playing. Her first porn movie was Teenage Deviate released in 1975. Sprinkle has appeared in almost 200 films, including hard- and softcore pornography, B movies, loops, and numerous documentaries. She starred in Nick Zedd's experimental films War Is Menstrual Envy, Ecstasy in Entropy, and Electra Elf: The Beginning. Her work and publications, spanning over five decades, are studied in courses at numerous universities, in theater history, women's studies, performance studies, LGBTQ studies and film studies courses. In 2009, she appeared in the French documentary film Mutantes: Punk, Porn, Feminism, speaking about the beginnings of the movement as well as her own contributions to it. They presented performances and visual art, lectured, and previewed their new film documentary, Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure. Sprinkle continued this medical discourse later in her career as well. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Awards and recognition

Her work in adult films earned her a spot on the Adult Star Path of Fame in Edison, New Jersey, and she was inducted to both the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1999.

Beyond adult film

Sprinkle, who identifies as ecosexual, is best known for her experimental pornography style, teaching individuals about pleasure, and for her mainstream adult film Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle. Perhaps her best known mainstream porn featured role was in Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle which was the No. 2 grossing porn film of 1981. Documenta 14: Daybook: Athens, 8 April-Kassel, 17 September 2017.

About the stage name

Performers in the adult industry commonly work under stage names, partly to separate their professional and private lives. realnameof.com lists a real name only when the performer has shared it publicly or mainstream news outlets have reported it. For Annie Sprinkle, neither condition is met, so no real name is listed, and we do not use leaked records or people-search sites.