This is a list of mainstream actors who have appeared in pornographic films that includes performers who appeared in
adult films early, later on, or throughout their careers, but all are known primarily for their mainstream acting. This is a list of documented appearances by mainstream actors in
soft core and
hard core pornographic films (movies) over the course of their careers.
Appearances in non-sexual roles
John Gielgud,
Malcolm McDowell,
Helen Mirren and
Peter O'Toole appeared in the movie Caligula, a film where producer
Bob Guccione would eventually film and add explicit unsimulated sex scenes after the original filming had been completed; McDowell later expressed his outrage over this.[1] Gielgud also wrote a screenplay for a pornographic film.[2]
Jaimee Foxworth – Child star Foxworth, at age nineteen, switched to starring in pornographic films, usually credited as "Crave".[11] Her transition to the
pornographic industry was covered by The Oprah Winfrey Show in a dedicated show entitled "Former Child TV Star Reveals the Biggest Mistake of Her Life".[12][13]
Kira Reed – Originally had a website that featured her husband and herself engaging in explicit sexual acts.[27] She later went on to appear in a movie called Basically Becca produced in 2001 by
Wicked Pictures.[28]
Simon Rex – The
MTV personality in 1993, at age 19, he appeared solo in scenes for two masturbation porn films, Young, Hard & Solo II; Young, Hard & Solo III. In 1998, at 24, he appeared in Hot Sessions III. Archived footage was used in two movies in 2000: Hot Sessions 11 and Hot Sessions 12.[29][30][31]
Holly Sampson – As a teenager she had mainstream acting roles appearing as
Fred Savage's love interest in the Wonder Years episode "
The Summer Song" (1989), as well as the film Pump Up the Volume. She starred in Other Men's Wives (1996) and had a minor role in the 1998
Angelina Jolie movie Gia. Sampson began her career in the porn industry by doing several hardcore films in 1998 under the single-name aliases "Nicolette" and "Zoe," but quickly left this side of the industry to perform in softcore films. In 2008, Sampson returned to the hardcore non-fetish side of adult film, under the name Holly Sampson.[citation needed]
Tom Sizemore – "
The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal" is a DVD video featuring actor Tom Sizemore having sex with multiple women, released by
Vivid Entertainment, on 19 October 2005. Reports claim the sex video was orchestrated by
Falcon Foto, a pornographic media business, all on the hush-hush, then "discovered" as some celebrity sex tape.[32]
Ilona Staller – She had an established mainstream career in Italian 1970s genre cinema before starring in a number of pornographic films with the stage name "Cicciolina" starting from 1983.[33]
Scott Schwartz – In the 1990s, Schwartz worked in the adult film industry in minor, non-sexual roles, and behind the scenes in numerous administrative roles. He eventually starred in several sexual roles.[36] After appearing in more than a dozen films in a non-sexual capacity he quit in 2000. Schwartz is best known for his role in A Christmas Story as the character Flick, who gets his tongue stuck to a frozen flag pole.
^"Transcript for September 27". Countdown with Keith Olbermann. NBC News. 27 September 2006.
Archived from the original on 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
^"I was just collecting myself. I did gay adult movies and TV and a lot of plays"; Interview granted to Scarlet Street Magazine, issue #26, January 1998
^Noble, Barnes &.
"976-Evil". Barnes & Noble. Archived from
the original on 2009-07-11. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
^George Rush; Joanna Rush; Molloy Jo; Piazza Chris; Rovzar (22 August 2005).
"In New Web Vids, Sizemore Matters". NY Daily News.
Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
^Franco Grattarola, Andrea Napoli (2014). Luce rossa. La nascita e le prime fasi del cinema pornografico in Italia. Iacobelli, 2014.
ISBN978-8862522137.