Biography of Jenna Haze
 Jenna Haze (born February 22, 1982) is an American pornographic actress. She entered
the adult film industry in 2001 at the age of 19. Between 2002 and 2005, she was
a contract girl for the film company Jill Kelly Productions. During most of her
time at the company, she performed exclusively with women, out of loyalty to her
then boyfriend, an industry cameraman. She returned to working with men in the
2006 multi-award winning release Jenna Haze Darkside, produced by Jules Jordan.
Haze herself has won numerous adult industry awards, including the 2003 AVN Award
for Best New Starlet and the 2009 AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year.
Early life
Haze was born in Fullerton, California and grew up mainly in La Habra, California,
but also spent time in Lancaster, California and Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
Haze grew up with divorced parents and has two sisters and a brother; all much
older than she is. She is of Spanish, German and Irish descent.
She received good grades in school, until about junior high school when she
"discovered boys and sex". By age 15 she had dropped out of high school,
had to receive homeschooling and find her first job. She had a series of low
wage jobs such as a fast food manager, oil change girl and a Christmas job stocking
shelves at a toy store.
When Haze turned 18, she tried stripping for a day, but did not enjoy being
a house girl, giving lap dances to men she had to pretend to like for low wages.
At age 19, while at her favorite nightclub in Anaheim California her boyfriend
introduced her to a friend who knew the adult actor Peter North and the actor/director
Craven Moorehead. She gladly accepted an offer from Moorehead to participate
in a film and two days later she shot her first scene. Haze had chosen her stage
name in honor of her then fiancé – who had the surname Hayes –
and her favorite song, Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze".
Film career
Haze's first scene was for The Oral Adventures of Craven Moorehead 8 with her
agent Slim Shady (Dez) and his best friend, Moorehead. It was intended to only
be an oral scene, but in the heat of the moment she had intercourse with both.
The next day she shot a scene with Miles Long in Joey Silvera's Service Animals
4. A few months later, she realized that she did not need an agent and started
to represent herself. For just over a month, Haze dated Simon Dope from the
nu metal band Dope. They met in 2002 on the set of Taste of a Woman, her first
feature film and her first lead. She briefly followed his band on tour until
the relationship ended.
In February 2002, Haze appeared in a scene for Jill Kelly Productions (JKP),
directed by Jill Kelly herself. Kelly was impressed by her performance and JKP
offered Haze an exclusive performing contract. This was soon followed by offers
from other companies, but in April 2002 Haze decided to sign with JKP, as they
offered the extra flexibility she needed to make money and build her career.
The company to her was more than just a business, but a family too. She also
enjoyed the idea of having a group of girls around her and working for a company
run by a woman. Soon after signing with JKP, she formed a serious relationship
with an industry cameraman and began a three year period of performing exclusively
with women. At the 2003 AVN Awards ceremony, Haze was named Best New Starlet
and her masturbation scene in Big Bottom Sadie was awarded Best Solo Sex Scene.
In 2004, she appeared on the HBO show Pornucopia, a six-part documentary on
the pornography industry in California.
Haze became a free agent in April 2005, after deciding not to renew her contract
with JKP, partly because Jill Kelly had recently left the company. After leaving
JKP and splitting with her boyfriend, Haze returned to working with male performers.
The April 2006 release Jenna Haze Darkside featured her first boy-girl scenes
in over three years, along with her first interracial scene with Mr. Marcus.
The film was produced and directed by her new boyfriend Jules Jordan. Later
in the year, she began writing a sex advice column for the pornographic magazine,
Fox. She also started feature dancing, represented by the agency Lee Network.
The first achievement in her feature dancing career was a nomination for Best
Feature Entertainer at the 2007 Night Moves Awards. Her film work was also rewarded
in 2007, with AVN Awards for Best Oral Sex Scene (Video) and Best Group Sex
Scene (Video), as well as a nomination for Female Performer of the Year. In
April 2007, Jenna Haze Oil Orgy became the first adult movie to be released
on Blu-ray format. Meanwhile, in the same month, her official website was launched
by Premium Multimedia. In the 2007 mainstream comedy film, Superbad, Haze made
a short appearance in the role of Vagtastic Voyage Girl #2. She was also among
the adult stars featured in the erotic photography book Naked Ambition: An R-Rated
Look at an X-Rated Industry, published in November 2007. The special edition
of the book included a fine art photograph of Haze signed by the photographer
Michael Grecco. In January 2008, her scene with Manuel Ferrara in Evil Anal
2 won the AVN Award for Best Couples Sex Scene (Video). In August 2008, Haze
achieved the first feature dancing award of her career winning Adult Movie Entertainer
of the Year in the 11th annual Adult Nightclub and Exotic Dancer Awards. On
January 10, 2009, Haze and Belladonna hosted the 2009 AVN Awards, and Haze won
Female Performer of the Year.
Haze made a short appearance in the mainstream movie Crank: High Voltage as
a pornstar on strike. Full name: Jenna Haze
Born: February 22, 1982
Birthplace: Fullerton, California, USA
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