Annette Haven

{{short description|American pornographic film actress and erotic dancer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=y|1954|12|01}}

| birth_place = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

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| years_active = 1973–2003

| alias = Nanette Heaven, Annette Funette, Cheryl Nelson, Annette Robinson

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Annette Haven (born December 1, 1954) is an American former pornographic actress popular during the 1970s and 1980s.{{cite book|title=A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989|publisher=University of California Press|author=Stephen Prince|author-link=Stephen Prince|author2=Charles Harpole|year=2002|url=https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step|url-access=registration|isbn=0-520-23266-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step/page/122 122]}}

Biography

Haven was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and raised in a Mormon family.{{cite web|title=Annette Haven |url=http://www.annettehaven.net |publisher=AnnetteHaven.net |access-date=April 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306080757/http://www.annettehaven.net/ |archive-date=March 6, 2012 }} Following the dissolution of her marriage, Haven moved to San Francisco, where she worked early on as a nurse's aide, exotic dancer, massage parlor girl and eventually as a stripper. While working in one of the strip clubs, she met porn star Bonnie Holiday and moved in with her and Holiday's boyfriend.[http://annettehaven.biz Official webpage]; accessed July 29, 2015.

She was introduced to the sex industry through a role in a film called Lady Freaks in 1973 starring Holiday. Annette Haven went on to work in nearly 100 porn movies, including Desires Within Young Girls (1977), Barbara Broadcast (1977), A Coming of Angels (1977), Obsessed (1977), Sex World (1977), Dracula Sucks (aka Lust At First Bite) (1978), Maraschino Cherry (1978), Charli (1981) and The Grafenberg Spot (1985).

Haven had a mainstream cameo role in Blake Edwards's 10. Subsequently, she was considered to play the lead female role in Body Double, but the role went to Melanie Griffith because Brian De Palma believed she gave a better dramatic screen test than Haven.{{cite news|last1=Baltake|first1=Joe|title='Scarface' De Palma defends 'Body Double'|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hBJUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vIwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7024%2C8675482|access-date=2 January 2016|agency=Knight-Ridder Newspapers|publisher=Boca Raton News|date=1984-10-29}} Afterwards she became one of the director's consultants for Body Double and was a coach for Griffith. Before filming Body Double De Palma commented, "I'm already thinking of casting. I don't know if there's any good young porno stars out here, but the older ones—Annette Haven, Seka—some of them can really act. And Annette Haven has a terrific body."{{cite book|title=Brian De Palma: interviews|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|author=Brian De Palma|author2=Laurence F. Knapp|year=2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZpkTAxWu4EC|isbn=1-57806-516-X|page=91}}

Haven is a member of the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.xrco.com|title=XRCO Hall of Fame|access-date=August 25, 2014}}

Awards

AVN Hall of Fame inductee[http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=halloffame Profile], avnawards.com; accessed July 29, 2015.
XRCO Hall of Fame inductee