pornographic film actress
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. She has been inducted into the
AVN Hall of Fame
The ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') Hall of Fame has honored people for their work in the adult entertainment industry since 1995.XRCO Hall of Fame, and in 2020 became AVN's first three-time Female Performer of the Year winner.
Early life and education
White graduated from the
University of Melbourne
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in 2010 with a first-class honours degree in
gender studies
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. There she researched women's experiences in the Australian pornography industry. White's honours thesis, "The Porn Performer: The Radical Potential of Pleasure in Pornography", was published in ''The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality'' in 2017.
In 2014, she said that she would like to go back to university to complete her
PhD
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and expand her studies to include a broader cross-section of performers.
Pornographic film career
White began her career in the adult industry in 2003 via adult modelling at the age of 18. Her first scene was shot by ''
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'', also at the age of 18. In 2007, she starred in the fifth series of the television comedy ''
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'' in a supporting role as the character Ruby. Her debut hardcore pornographic DVD was released in 2011.
''
XBIZ
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In addition to its flagship "Xbiz.com" website, XBIZ publishes two monthly trade magazines, hosts winter and ...
'' has called White "Australia's most well-known adult performer", and ''
The Daily Beast
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It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief ...
'' has called her "The
Meryl Streep
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of Porn."
In 2013, White launched her official website, angelawhite.com.
In October 2014, White signed a distribution deal with Girlfriends Films to release films. In the same month, Fleshlight, makers of a masturbation tool for men, named White their newest Fleshlight Girl. She is the first Australian to be named a Fleshlight Girl.
In September 2016, in an interview with ''
XBIZ
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'', White said she had moved to the United States and signed with Spiegler Girls to shoot for companies like
Brazzers
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AVN Award
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s Show in
Las Vegas
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, Nevada, alongside comedian
Aries Spears
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and webcam star Harli Lotts.
In October 2021, White signed an exclusive contract with Brazzers. Brazzers producer Ryan Hogan said at the time White represented "the absolute peak of professionalism and stardom in our industry. Everybody knows Angela White."
In July 2022, Brazzers released "Sexually Rated Programming", a short starring White "set in a dystopian world that sees Angela free a submissive society brainwashed by anti-erotic propaganda." The scene features a blowbang.
White has also done regular work as a
webcam model
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Australian Sex Party
The Australian Sex Party was an Australian political party founded in 2009 in response to concerns over the purported increasing influence of religion in Australian politics. The party was born out of an adult-industry lobby group, the Eros Asso ...
in the
2010 Victorian state election
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, winning 2.9 percent of the vote. White ran to advocate for sex workers' rights, specifically to oppose Australian Green Party candidate
Kathleen Maltzahn
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, who advocated banning brothels. She told ''
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'', "My angle wasn't necessarily to win. I wanted to make sure that altzahndidn't win". During the election, White sent copies of her DVDs to state attorney general Rob Hulls in her bid to reduce regulations for X18+ films.
In 2013, White and fellow Australian Sex Party candidate Zahra Stardust became the first political candidates to film a pornographic scene together.