Nina Hartley Real Name: Not Public She/Her

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Real name not publicly disclosed: realnameof.com has not found a real name for Nina Hartley that the performer shared or mainstream outlets reported, so none is listed. By 2017 she had appeared in more than 1,000 adult films.

Career

After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and graduated magna cum laude in 1985, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has said she chose her life's work when she saw the 1976 erotic film The Autobiography of a Flea alone at a theater in San Francisco. Her adult film debut was in Educating Nina, where she was cast and directed by fellow performer Juliet Anderson. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Hartley starred in several of the Debbie Does Dallas film series spin-offs such as Debbie Duz Dishes and Debbie Does Wall Street. She played the part of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 satirical adult film Who's Nailin' Paylin?, with Lisa Ann in the role of Sarah Palin. As of 2015, she was still actively performing, and by 2017 had appeared in more than one thousand adult films. In the 1997 film Boogie Nights, she played William H. Hartley began engaging in feminist activism in the 1980s.

Beyond adult film

In 1992, she directed her first movie, Nina Hartley's Book of Love. In 1994, she began her line of instructional videos marketed under the Nina Hartley's Guide brand. Hartley has also been involved in socialist activism and has also been affiliated with the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, a labor union founded in 2014 for adult film actors.

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 Nina Hartley, neither condition is met, so no real name is listed, and we do not use leaked records or people-search sites.