Jenna Jameson — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

Jenna Marie Massoli (born April 9, 1974), known professionally as Jenna Jameson, is an American model, former pornographic film actress, businesswoman, and television personality. She has been named the world's most famous adult entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn".

She started acting in erotic videos in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996, she had won the "Top Newcomer" award from each of the three major adult movie organizations. She has since won more than 35 adult-video awards, and has been inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame.

Jameson founded the adult-entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married and divorced. Initially, a single website, this business expanded into managing similar websites of other stars and began producing sexually explicit videos in 2001. The first such movie, Briana Loves Jenna (with Briana Banks), was named at the 2003 AVN Awards as the best-selling and best-renting pornographic title for 2002. By 2005, ClubJenna had revenues of US$30 million with profits estimated at half that.

Jameson has also crossed over into mainstream pop culture, starting with a minor role in Howard Stern's 1997 film Private Parts. Her mainstream appearances continued with several guest-hosting and guest-starring on various television programs. Playboy TV hosted her Jenna's American Sex Star reality show, in which aspiring porn stars competed for a ClubJenna contract. Her 2004 autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, spent six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Filmography

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2026 Skate to Hell Nun Nell

Interesting facts

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Real name is Jennifer Marie Massoli.
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Her autobiographical book "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale" spent six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Her boyfriend Jack was a tattoo artist and was the first to give Jenna her first set of tattoos, one of which later became her trademark - a double heart on her right buttock. Later, her brother Tony added the inscription "HEART BREAKER" to the design.
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Her father, Lawrence Massoli, was an Italian-American program director for the NBC affiliate and a police officer. Her mother, Judith Brooke Hunt Massoli, was a Las Vegas showgirl, where she danced at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in shows staged by the Folies Bergère art hall.
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Jenna began acting in erotic films in 1993, after having worked as a stripper.
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Jenna has three children: sons Jesse Jameson Ortiz and Journey Jett Ortiz (born 03/16/2009) and daughter Batel Lu Beaton (born 04/06/2017).
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Her mother died of cancer on February 20, 1976, when Jenna was not yet two years old.
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Her first stage name was "Jennasis" (a play on the name of the first biblical book about the creation of the world, "Genesis" - In the Beginning). In the process of choosing the name "Jenna Jameson," she kept Jenna as her first name, and while searching for a surname she went through the entire phone book, but not finding anything suitable, she settled on Jameson, after the whiskey she drinks.