Angel Kelly

Angel Kelly
Born (1962-12-07) December 7, 1962 (age 62)
Lansing, Michigan, United States
Other namesSugar Brown
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Angel Kelly (born December 7, 1962) is a retired pornographic actress. With Jeannie Pepper and Heather Hunter, Kelly was among the first African-American women to "cross over" into mainstream porn video.[1] She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.[2]

Career

At age 19, Kelly began working in a peep show booth in an establishment called Cinema X in Michigan and would work there for two years.[3] Afterwards, she began dancing topless at a bar and was approached by a photographer to appear in adult magazines.[3] She would appear in magazines such as Cheri and Players, which led to offers to do adult films.[3]

Kelly began her film career in 1985.[3] During the period in which she was most active, 1986 through 1988, she made more than 100 original films — 53 in 1987 alone — but by the early-1990s she was appearing in fewer than five films a year. Kelly's final performance in an original film was in 1991.[4]

Kelly was the first African American female star to receive a contract in the Adult Film Industry when she signed with Fantasy Home Video.[5] On January 12, 2008, Kelly was inducted into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame.[2] She was also inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame on April 16, 2009.[6]

Mainstream appearances

In 1996, Kelly and Heather Hunter appeared in the music video of Tupac Shakur's How Do U Want It. [7][8]

References

  1. ^ Mireille Miller-Young, "Hardcore Desire: Black Women Laboring in Porn — Is It Just Another Job? Archived 2018-02-16 at the Wayback Machine", ColorLines Magazine: Race, Action, Culture, Winter 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
  2. ^ a b Jared Rutter (2008-01-12). "2008 AVN Award Winners Announced". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on 2008-04-04. Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  3. ^ a b c d Moore Campbell, Bebe. A Portrait of Angel (November 1990 ed.). Essence Magazine. p. 121.
  4. ^ Angel Kelly at the Internet Adult Film Database . Retrieved on 2009-07-30.
  5. ^ Miller-Young, Mireille (8 December 2014). A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Duke University Press Books. ISBN 9780822375913. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  6. ^ "2009 XRCO Winners". Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  7. ^ Woulard, Byron (2011). The Pawn Queen. Woulard Media Distribution. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0982937518.
  8. ^ "- YouTube". YouTube.