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Aja (actress)

Aja (actress)

Aja (b. July 14, 1963) was the stage name of an American pornographic actress, adult film director, and exotic dancer.

Aja
Born(1963-07-14)14 July 1963[1]
Tampa, Florida, U.S.[1]
Other namesBarbara Cunningham[1]
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[1]

Career

Aja starred in director John Leslie's Adult Video News' Best Video of the Year award-winning Mad Love (1988) in a scene described as "notably [...] surreal" by author and Ohio University Telecommunications graduate studies director Joseph W. Slade.[2] AVN later declared the film one of the 500 best of all time, also describing Aja's scene as "strange"; she starred in two others among their 500 best, Alex deRenzy's Ghostess with the Mostess and Paul Thomas' The Naked Stranger, [3] all in her first year as a performer, winning AVN's "Best New Starlet" in 1989.

In 1990, she starred in director Sharon Kane's Stairway to Paradise, a film that was the subject of a study by University of California, Los Angeles professor of psychiatry and human sexual relations specialist Robert Stoller. In casting the film, writer Jim Holliday "wanted Aja in the worst way and Sharon agreed. Aja is very box-officeable."[4]

According to the Internet Adult Film Database Aja stopped filming new scenes in the early 2000s, though videos that feature her performances continue to be released through 2014.[1]

Appearances

On September 16, 1992, she was one of four porn performers participating in the Porn-AM Golf Tournament in Denver, Colorado, which was organized by J. R. Wolfe as a benefit for the Adult Film and Video Association of America's recently formed Free Speech Legal Defense Fund.[5]

In 1994, Carnal Comics published a comic book rendition of her biography and how she became a porn performer, which was reprinted three times.[6][7]

Awards

References

[1]
Citation Linkwww.iafd.com"Aja". IAFD. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
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Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgSlade 1997, p. 119.
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Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgRamone 2006, pp. 137, 195, 212.
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Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgStoller 1993, p. 81.
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Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgHusted, Bill (August 7, 1992). "Porn Stars to Tee it Up". Rocky Mountain News.
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Citation Linkwww.demicomix.comCarnal Comics - True Stories of Adult Film Stars
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Citation Linkwww.sandiegoreader.comSanford, Jay Allen (September 8, 2007). "Carnal Comics - the Inside Story". San Diego Reader.
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Citation Linkwww.avnawards.com"AVN Awards Past Winners". AVN.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2007.
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Citation Linkaiwards.com"Winners of XRCO Awards 1989".
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Citation Linkmuse.jhu.edu"Flesh Need Not be Mute: The Pornographic Videos of John Leslie"
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Citation Link//doi.org/10.1353%2Fwan.1997.001510.1353/wan.1997.0015
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Citation Link//www.worldcat.org/issn/0160-68400160-6840
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Citation Linkwww.imdb.comAja
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Citation Linkwww.iafd.comAja
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Citation Linkwww.adultfilmdatabase.comAja
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Citation Linkmuse.jhu.edu"Flesh Need Not be Mute: The Pornographic Videos of John Leslie"
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Citation Linkdoi.org10.1353/wan.1997.0015
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Citation Linkwww.worldcat.org0160-6840
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Citation Linkwww.iafd.comthe original
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