Biography of Annette Haven

Haven has been elected to the XRCO's Performer Hall of Fame and to the AVN's Hall of Fame. Astrology: Sagittarius She lives in Mill Valley, CA with her husband. Shen was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and raised in a Mormon family. Haven later claimed that part of her reason for entering porn was that she wanted to show that "sex is not sinful" and could be pleasurable. When she was 17 years old, she married her boyfriend, but they were divorced two years later. Following the dissolution of her marriage, She moved to San Francisco, where she began dancing in erotic shows, and she eventually worked 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. She was introduced to the sex industry through a role in a film called Lady Freaks in 1973 starring Holiday. She went on to work in nearly 100 porn movies, including Desires Within Young Girls , Obsessed , A Coming of Angels , Barbara Broadcast , Dracula Sucks , Maraschino Cherry and The Grafenberg Spot . She had a mainstream cameo role in Blake Edwards's 10. Subsequently, she was considered to play the lead female role in Body Double, but it was eventually given to Melanie Griffith, who, according to director Brian De Palma, got the role because she gave a better dramatic screen test than Haven. Afterwards she became one of the director's consultants for the film and as a coach for Griffith. 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 onesâ€”Annette Haven, Sekaâ€”some of them can really act. And Annette Haven has a terrific body." She is a member of the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.