Annette Haven

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Annette Haven (December 1, 1954) (a.k.a. Annette Robinson) was a feminist American erotic actress. Haven was one of the first superstars of erotica, with a career dating back to when the features were shot on film and not videotape.

Before her career as a porn star took off, Haven worked early on as a nurse's aide, exotic dancer, and massage parlor girl in the San Francisco area.

Haven's first film was in the mid 1970s. Most often she was cast as an innocent angelic virgin or femme fatale. Haven's erotic hardcore debut was in Alex De Renzy's 1973 feature Lady Freaks. In 1977, Haven received an adult film best actress award for A Coming of Angels from the Adult Film Association of America.

Haven was known as a true professional and a class act in the industry. She was selective about films she acted in, and the other performers she worked with. She refused to do scenes that included bondage, violence, or "money shots." Her notable work includes XRCO Hall of Fame film of Desires Within Young Girls and Sex World; other notable roles include Barbara Broadcast, V-the Hot One, and A Thousand and One Erotic Nights. Haven was elected to the XRCO's Performer Hall of Fame and to the AVN´s Hall of Fame.

Haven had a mainstream acting role in Blake Edward's 10 as one of the porn actresses living up the hill. She was considered to play the lead female role, which eventually went to Melanie Griffith, for Body Double and became one of the consultants for the film. Haven turned down a part in The Howling because of its excessive violence.

Haven retired from erotic films in the late 1980s, although she reappeared in the mid-1990s to star in a couple of fetish videos with her frequent 70s-costar, Jamie Gillis, and dominatrix Kim Wylde. She reportedly lives in Mill Valley, California (in Marin County) with her husband and is not raising a family.

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