Aurora Snow
{{short description|American pornographic actress and writer}}
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Aurora Snow is a retired American pornographic actress,{{cite news |last=Snow |first=Aurora |title=Retired Porn Star's Bittersweet Return to the Spotlight |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-retired-porn-stars-bittersweet-return-to-the-spotlight |work=The Daily Beast |date=April 11, 2017 |url-access=subscription}} director, and columnist.{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-porn-star-retires-aurora-snow-on-life-after-porn |title=How a Porn Star Retires: Aurora Snow on Life After Porn |access-date=July 9, 2013 |first=Aurora |last=Snow |date=June 18, 2013 |work=The Daily Beast |url-access=subscription}}
Early life
Snow was raised by a single mother and was the oldest of three siblings.{{cite web |url=http://www.wewomen.com/personal-life/mom-used-to-be-a-porn-star-aurora-snow-shares-her-story-s423309.html |title=Mom Used To Be A Porn Star: Aurora Snow Shares Her Story |first=Carla Cain |last=Walther |date=September 20, 2014 |website=Wewomen.com |archive-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531054609/http://www.wewomen.com/personal-life/mom-used-to-be-a-porn-star-aurora-snow-shares-her-story-s423309.html |url-status=dead}}
Career
=Adult films=
Snow entered the pornographic entertainment industry when she was 18 years old,{{cite web |last=Street |first=Sharan |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/class-of-2017-the-new-inductees-into-the-avn-hall-of-fame-707363.html |title=Class of 2017: The AVN Hall of Fame's Newest Inductees |work=Adult Video News |date=December 28, 2016 |access-date=December 29, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Snow |first1=Aurora |title=Porn Star Aurora Snow Goes from Barely Legal to MILF |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-star-aurora-snow-goes-from-barely-legal-to-milf |work=The Daily Beast |date=August 9, 2010 |url-access=subscription}} planning to work in porn for only a year.{{cite news |last1=Snow |first1=Aurora |title=The Porn Stars Giving the Middle Finger to Father Time |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-porn-stars-giving-the-middle-finger-to-father-time |work=The Daily Beast |date=November 7, 2021 |url-access=subscription}}
One of her first professionally made and distributed movies was More Dirty Debutantes 152, produced by Ed Powers.
Snow was a contract performer and director for Sin City between May 2003 and May 2005.{{cite magazine |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/sin-city-entertainment-signs-aurora-snow-31870.html |title=Sin City Entertainment Signs Aurora Snow |access-date=August 13, 2013 |date=May 21, 2003 |magazine=Adult Video News}}{{cite magazine |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/aurora-snow-signs-new-two-year-deal-with-sin-city-mayhem-38802.html |title=Aurora Snow Signs New Two-Year Deal With Sin City/Mayhem |access-date=August 13, 2013 |date=May 26, 2004 |magazine=Adult Video News}}{{cite magazine |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/sin-city-terminates-aurora-snow-contract-43936.html |title=Sin City Terminates Aurora Snow Contract |access-date=August 13, 2013 |first=Acme |last=Andersson |date=May 31, 2005 |magazine=Adult Video News}} She made her directorial debut for the company with the film Assploitations.{{cite web |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/aurora-snow-8217-s-assploitations-2-in-stores-37710.html |title=Aurora Snow's Assploitations 2 In Stores |access-date=August 13, 2013 |first=Acme |last=Andersson |date=February 4, 2004 |work=Adult Video News}} Snow hosted Private Calls on Playboy TV.{{r|Snow 2010a}}
In July 2010, she reported on the obscenity case against John Stagliano for Adult Video News.{{cite web |last=Snow |first=Aurora |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/aurora-snow-blogs-for-avn-from-stagliano-trial-403410.html |title=Aurora Snow Blogs for AVN from Stagliano Trial |work=Adult Video News |date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=June 2, 2013}}{{cite web |last1=Snow |first1=Aurora |title=Aurora Snow: Trial and Error in the Nation's Capital |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/aurora-snow-trial-and-error-in-the-nation-s-capital-403691.html |website=Adult Video News |date=July 15, 2010}}
Despite not using condoms during most of her scenes, she came out as one of the few performers in favor of the 2012 Measure B vote in Los Angeles, mandating the use of condoms for all pornographic movie scenes.{{cite news |last1=Snow |first1=Aurora |title=Condoms in Porn: One Adult Star Says Yes to Measure B |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/condoms-in-porn-one-adult-star-says-yes-to-measure-b |work=The Daily Beast |date=October 18, 2012 |url-access=subscription}}
Snow left the pornographic film industry after ten years in 2011 and moved from Los Angeles to Macon, Missouri.
=Mainstream media appearances=
Snow appeared in the 2002 feature film The Rules of Attraction as Masked Naked Girl at Party.
Snow appeared in a cameo in the Judd Apatow film Superbad.{{cite web |title=Aurora Snow |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1519094/Aurora-Snow |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225155001/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1519094/Aurora-Snow |url-status=unfit |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2008 |archive-date=February 25, 2008}} On January 6, 2010, Snow appeared in an episode of 1000 Ways to Die titled "Death On Arrival" to discuss edible underwear during the "Way to Die #444: Deadliest Munch" segment of the episode.{{cite web |url=http://www.spike.com/episodes/8ve5bv/1000-ways-to-die-death-on-arrival-season-2-ep-201 |title=Death On Arrival - Episode 201 |access-date=August 13, 2013 |date=January 6, 2010 |publisher=Spike |archive-date=August 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812132946/http://www.spike.com/episodes/8ve5bv/1000-ways-to-die-death-on-arrival-season-2-ep-201 |url-status=dead}}
On March 12, 2013, Snow appeared on The Young Turks to discuss racism in pornography and the reasons why some Caucasian pornographic actresses refuse to do interracial sex scenes.{{cite web |url=http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/adult-film-actress-aurora-snow-i-think-that-racism-actually-does-still-exist-in-porn |title=Adult film actress Aurora Snow: 'I think that racism actually does still exist [in porn]' |date=March 12, 2013 |publisher=Current TV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711160119/http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/adult-film-actress-aurora-snow-i-think-that-racism-actually-does-still-exist-in-porn |archive-date=July 11, 2013 |url-status=usurped}}
Snow has been a contributor for The Daily Beast and Glammonitor, writing articles about the porn industry and women's issues.{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/aurora-snow.html |title=Aurora Snow |access-date=November 26, 2021 |website=The Daily Beast}}{{cite web |url=http://www.glammonitor.com/author/aurorasnow/ |title=Aurora Snow |website=Glammonitor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602192209/http://www.glammonitor.com/author/aurorasnow/ |archive-date=June 2, 2015 |url-status=dead}}
On March 6, 2014, Snow spoke at Harvard Law School on the topic of "Sex, Drugs, and Rolling Dice: The Regulation of Vice."{{cite web |last=Dickson |first=EJ |url=http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/porn-harvard-q-and-a-aurora-snow/ |title=Retired porn star Aurora Snow hits Harvard to talk about the new politics of porn |access-date=March 25, 2015 |date=March 4, 2014 |work=The Daily Dot}} On March 19, 2015, Snow spoke at the University of South Carolina School of Law on "Vice, Porn and American Culture."{{cite web |last=Snow |first=Aurora |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITO3H9EfKE |title=Aurora Snow speaks at USC School of Law on Porn Industry |date=March 22, 2015 |via=YouTube |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307220100/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITO3H9EfKE |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cbignore}}{{Independent source inline|date=June 2025}}
Personal life
In September 2013, Snow wrote an article for The Daily Beast titled "A Porn Star's Letter to Her Unborn Son" in which she announced she was pregnant with her first child and stated how she would explain her choice to work in the porn industry to her son once he is older.{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-porn-stars-letter-to-her-unborn-son |title=A Porn Star's Letter to Her Unborn Son |access-date=January 2, 2014 |first=Aurora |last=Snow |date=September 30, 2013 |website=The Daily Beast |url-access=subscription}} The letter quickly went viral on the Internet.{{cite web |url=http://www.metroparent.com/Blogs/Oh-Mother/October-2013/Retired-Porn-Star-Writes-a-Letter-to-Her-Unborn-Child/ |title=Retired Porn Star Writes a Letter to Her Unborn Child |first=Latonya |last=Berry |date=October 2, 2013 |publisher=Metro Parent Publishing Group |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103174403/http://www.metroparent.com/Blogs/Oh-Mother/October-2013/Retired-Porn-Star-Writes-a-Letter-to-Her-Unborn-Child/ |archive-date=January 3, 2014 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://health.ninemsn.com.au/family/digestive/8731943/porn-stars-touching-letter-to-her-unborn-son |title=Porn star's touching letter to her unborn son |first=Lachlan |last=Williams |date=October 1, 2013 |website=Ninemsn |archive-date=February 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206141624/http://health.ninemsn.com.au/family/digestive/8731943/porn-stars-touching-letter-to-her-unborn-son |url-status=usurped}}{{cite web |url=https://mamaslatinas.com/parenting-pregnancy/118173-porn_star_writes_brutally_honest |title=Porn star writes brutally honest letter to her unborn son |access-date=November 26, 2021 |first=Roxana A. |last=Soto |date=October 8, 2013 |website=Mamás Latinas}} She gave birth to her son in December 2013.{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-sex-for-six-weeks-after-giving-birth-its-too-long |title=No Sex For Six Weeks After Giving Birth? It's Too Long! |access-date=January 2, 2014 |first=Aurora |last=Snow |date=December 27, 2013 |website=The Daily Beast |url-access=subscription}} Her father stated that he was proud upon finding out about her occupation.{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/my-daughter-the-porn-star |title=My Daughter the Porn Star |first=Aurora |last=Snow |date=May 30, 2017 |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=May 24, 2017 |url-access=subscription}}
Awards
- 2002 XRCO Award – Best Threeway Sex Scene (Up Your Ass 18) with Mr. Marcus & Lexington Steele{{cite web |url=http://www.ainews.com/Archives/Story3247.phtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030308024502/http://ainews.com/Archives/Story3247.phtml |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 8, 2003 |title=The 18th Annual Awards of the X-Rated Critics Organization |first=Steve |last=Nelson |date=April 13, 2002 |website=Adult Industry News}}
- 2002 XRCO Award – Best Group Sex Scene (Gangbang Auditions 7)
- 2002 XRCO Award – Cream Dream
- 2003 XRCO Award – Best Threeway Sex Scene (Trained Teens) with Gauge & Jules Jordan{{cite magazine |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/evil-angel-s-i-the-fashionistas-i-big-winner-at-xrcos-thursday-night-32315.html |title=Evil Angel's The Fashionistas Big Winner At XRCOs Thursday Night |access-date=September 28, 2014 |first=Heidi |last=Pike-Johnson |date=April 4, 2003 |magazine=Adult Video News}}
- 2003 AVN Award – Female Performer of the Year{{cite magazine |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/2003-avn-awards-winners-announced-awards-presented-big-year-for-evil-angel-32917.html |title=2003 AVN Awards Winners Announced: Awards Presented Big Year for Evil Angel... |access-date=August 13, 2013 |author=Heidi Pike-Johnson |date=January 21, 2003 |magazine=Adult Video News}}
- 2011 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee{{cite magazine |title=XRCO Announces 2011 Nominations |magazine=Adult Video News |first=Peter |last=Warren |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/xrco-announces-2011-nominations-426791.html |access-date=February 26, 2011 |date=February 22, 2011}}
- 2017 AVN Hall of Fame inductee
References
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