Angel Kelly
{{short description|American actress}}
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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.Mireille Miller-Young, "[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hardcore+desire%3A+Black+women+laboring+in+porn--is+it+just+another+job%3F-a0140145988 Hardcore Desire: Black Women Laboring in Porn — Is It Just Another Job?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216204517/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hardcore+desire%3A+Black+women+laboring+in+porn--is+it+just+another+job%3F-a0140145988 |date=2018-02-16 }}", ColorLines Magazine: Race, Action, Culture, Winter 2005. Retrieved on 2007-10-03. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
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.{{cite book |last1=Moore Campbell |first1=Bebe |title=A Portrait of Angel |publisher=Essence Magazine |page=121 |edition=November 1990}} Afterwards, she began dancing topless at a bar and was approached by a photographer to appear in adult magazines. She would appear in magazines such as Cheri and Players, which led to offers to do adult films.
Kelly began her film career in 1985. 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.{{iafd name|AKelly|f|Angel Kelly}}. Retrieved on 2009-07-30.
Kelly was the first African American female star to receive a contract in the Adult Film Industry when she signed with Fantasy Home Video.{{cite book|last1=Miller-Young|first1=Mireille|title=A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography|date=8 December 2014|publisher=Duke University Press Books|isbn=9780822375913|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x4_uBQAAQBAJ&q=%22angel+kelly%22+contract&pg=PT162|accessdate=31 December 2015}} On January 12, 2008, Kelly was inducted into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame.{{cite news|author=Jared Rutter |title=2008 AVN Award Winners Announced |url=http://avn.com/video/articles/2759.html |work=Adult Video News |date=2008-01-12 |accessdate=2008-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404082611/http://www.avn.com/video/articles/2759.html |archive-date=2008-04-04 |url-status=live }} She was also inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame on April 16, 2009.{{cite news |title=2009 XRCO Winners |url=http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/2009show/index.htm|accessdate=2009-05-18}}
Mainstream appearances
In 1996, Kelly and Heather Hunter appeared in the music video of Tupac Shakur's How Do U Want It.
{{cite book|last=Woulard|first=Byron|title=The Pawn Queen|year=2011|publisher=Woulard Media Distribution|isbn=978-0982937518|pages=57–58}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvS_Uk5yJM | title=- YouTube | website=YouTube }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0446178|Angel Kelly}}
- {{iafd name|id=AKelly|gender=female|name=Angel Kelly}}
- {{afdb name|id=598|gender=female|name=Angel Kelly}}
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Category:African-American pornographic film actors
Category:American pornographic film actresses
Category:Actresses from Lansing, Michigan
Category:Actresses from Memphis, Tennessee
Category:Pornographic film actors from Michigan
Category:Pornographic film actors from Tennessee
Category:21st-century African-American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses