Juli Ashton (born October 5, 1969) is an American former
pornographic actress.
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Early life
Juli was born in Colorado Springs, CO. After high school, she attended Colorado State University
Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University Syst ...
earning a degree in Spanish and History. During college she worked as a waitress at a topless club. Upon graduation she worked as a Junior High Teacher, teaching Spanish. Her teaching career only lasted one year. She moved to Florida and started waiting tables in a strip club. After learning she could make more money as a dancer, she started doing that. While dancing she learned from her fellow dancers about the adult film industry, and after a year and a half she started her adult film career, appearing in a scene in the film ''The Dinner Party''
Adult film career
In 1994, she began appearing in adult films, starting with ''New Wave Hookers 4''.["The Women of Porn", '']Playboy
''Playboy'' (stylized in all caps) is an American men's Lifestyle journalism, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, available both online and in print. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, funded in part by a $ ...
'', March 2002, page 128 From 1996 to 2006 she was co-host of the Playboy Channel's live phone-in program ''Night Calls.'' She is credited with 127 appearances as an actress and has been a director four times.[
Ashton is the owner and operator of the adult website Juliland.com, a website that features the erotic imagery of ]photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.
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/ director Richard Avery.[About Juliland]
In addition to her work in the adult film industry, Juli has credits in two computer games from 1996.
Awards
* 1996 XRCO Award – Female Performer of the Year
* 1997 AVN Award
The AVN Awards are List of movie awards, film awards sponsored and presented by the American trade magazine ''AVN (magazine), AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') annually to honor achievements in the global Sex industry, adult entertainment industry. ...
– Best Supporting Actress—Video (''Head Trip'')
* 1997 Free Speech Coalition – Positive Image Award
* 2000 NightMoves Award – Best Actress (Editor's Choice)
* 2011 XRCO Hall of Fame
The XRCO Hall of Fame lists well-known adult entertainment works and workers. The list is managed by X-Rated Critics Organization and inducted annually during the XRCO Awards. The first XRCO Awards were presented in Hollywood on February 14, 198 ...
* 2012 AVN Hall of Fame2012 AVN Award nominee
(archived at Wayback Machine
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, January 2, 2012)
Post-film career
She was the first spokesperson for Adam & Eve.[ It was during this period that she lobbied on behalf of the Free Speech Coalition at the ]California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the bicameral state legislature of the U.S. state of California, consisting of the California State Assembly (lower house with 80 members) and the California State Senate (upper house with 40 members). ...
.[ She was one of the first adult actresses to open her own adult film production company, known as Ashton View Promotions.][
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References
External links
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Interview with rogreviews.com
at G4
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1969 births
Actresses from Colorado Springs, Colorado
American female adult models
American female erotic dancers
American pornographic film actresses
American pornographers
Colorado State University alumni
Living people
Pornographic film actors from Colorado
21st-century American women