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Encyclopedia > Aja (actress)
Aja (actress)
Aja
Aja
Birthdate July 14, 1963
Birth location Tampa, Florida, USA
Birth Name Barbara Holder
Measurements 34D-23-34
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight
Eye color Brown
Hair color Brown
Natural bust Yes
Orientation Heterosexual
Ethnicity Caucasian / French
Alias(es) Lucia Luciano
Website N/A

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She also works as a film director of pornographic films and a fitness trainer. The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...

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Biography

Growing up, she was a self-described "army brat", traveling from Portland, Maine to overseas in Germany. She moved to Florida, settling in Fort Lauderdale. Army brat is a colloquial term referring to a child born to a member of the US Army. ... Location in Maine Founded  -Incorporated 1786   County Cumberland County Mayor Jill C. Duson Area  - Total  - Water 136. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... Fort Lauderdale, known as the Venice of America, is a city located in Broward County, Florida, United States. ...


Like most pornographic actresses, she began her career in exotic dancing. She was introduced to it by a girl friend who was a straight-A college student. With this, she began her forays in pornography, after convincing her husband, John Derringer, to move to California. She decided her stagename from a Steely Dan album called "Aja". (The proper pronunciation is similar to "Asia" with a soft "J".) Her mentor was Sharon Mitchell. A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellows and still are in some places. ... State nickname: The Land of poo Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold pooface (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Walter Becker (left) and Donald Fagen accepting the Grammy Award for the album Two Against Nature Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band based around musicians and songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... Aja is an album by the rock band Steely Dan. ... Sharon Mitchell (born January 18, 1956) is the Director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, that she set up in 1998. ...


Her career started in 1988 in Wild in the Woods, which starred Scott Irish and Randy West. Her then-husband did all of her anal sex sequences; since her divorce, she refuses to do any sex scenes of that nature. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Randy West (born in New York, USA) has been a premier announcer on American television game shows since 1990. ... Roman men having anal sex. ...


During this time, she had drug addiction problems, particularly with heroin. In the 1990's she was helped by John T. Bone, a pornographic director, and was also on a methadone maintenance program. In Canada, Bone later locked her in a hotel room for three weeks, thus helping her go "cold turkey". Drug addiction, or dependency is the compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. ... Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as brown sugar, junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack (for the sound made when a user slaps an arm to find a vein), black tar, montega, H, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, jude, diesel, boy, etc. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic synthesized in 1937 by German scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart at IG Farben (Hoechst-Am-Main) who were searching for an analgesic that would be easier to use during surgery and also have low addiction potential. ... Cold turkey is a term describing the actions of a person who gives up his habit or addiction at a single moment, rather than through gradually easing the process through tapering off or supplemental medication. ...


She left on her first hiatus in 1992, using her fame she earned in pornography to enhance her exotic dancing career. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Since then, she would later work in pornographic films, on and off, in front and behind the camera.


In 1997, after growing tired with an on-the-road exotic dancing career, she started her pornographic production company called Golden Orchid Productions. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In 2000, Aja became owner and producer of Pleasure Dome Productions, an adult video production company after its acquisition by Golden Orchid. [1] This article is about the year 2000. ...


She is a follower of the Asatru religion. She has two children from her marriage to John Derringer. satr , also known as Odinism, describes a number of attempts to reconstruct the indigenous religions of Northern Europe. ...


Awards

  • 1989 - AVN's Starlet of the Year
  • 1989 - XRCO's Starlet of the Year
  • Nomination for Best Actress in Mad Love

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External links

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ... The Internet Adult Film Database (acronym: iafd) is an online database of information pertaining to the adult industry, covering actors, actresses, directors and movies. ...

Sources

  • Aja interview and biography at LukeFord.com
  • News item regarding acquisition of Pleasure Dome Productions by Aja's Golden Orchid Productions (April 19, 2000)
  • Excalibur Film's bio and filmography on Aja

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