Annie Sprinkle
Actress

Annie Sprinkle Net Worth

Annie Sprinkle was born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up in the greater Los Angeles area, and was a bashful girl well into her teens. After losing her virginity at the age of 17, she became interested in sex and entered the adult entertainment industry, working a variety of behind-the-camera jobs before making her debut as a hardcore-sex actress in Teenage Cover Girls (1976). She eventually appeared in approximately 200 porn loops, shorts and feature films, and wrote and directed her first hardcore feature, Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle (1981). She then left the porn industry to pursue her artistic pursuits as a performance artist, filmmaker, and writer, creating art and cultural artifacts that promote healthy attitudes toward sexuality and women. She is an openly bisexual feminist who promotes her own conception of a pansexual, spiritual female sexuality, and has been denounced by name from the floor of the U.S. Senate for her performance art piece. Annie Sprinkle remains committed to spreading the good news of her pro-sex message, that sex should be liberating, fun, free of shame and repression, and infused with creativity, love and spirituality.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Director, Writer
Birth Day July 23, 1954
Birth Place  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Age 69 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Leo
Spouse(s) Beth Stephens (2002–present)
Website anniesprinkle.org sexecology.org earthlab.ucsc.edu

💰 Net worth

Annie Sprinkle, the renowned actress, director, and writer from the United States, is anticipated to have a net worth of $100K to $1M in 2024. With her versatile talents and contributions to the entertainment industry, Sprinkle has established herself as a prominent figure in acting, directing, and writing. She has undoubtedly achieved significant financial success over the years, amassing a substantial fortune through her remarkable career. As a multifaceted artist, Sprinkle continues to captivate audiences with her talent and creativity, solidifying her position as an influential figure in the entertainment realm.

Biography/Timeline

1954

Sprinkle was born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Russian-Jewish mother and a Polish-Jewish father. She is known as the "prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and Artist." Her best known theater and performance art piece is her Public Cervix Announcement, in which she invites the audience to "celebrate the female body" by viewing her cervix with a speculum and flashlight. She also performed The Legend of the Ancient Sacred Prostitute, in which she did a "sex magic" masturbation ritual on stage. She has toured one-woman shows internationally for 17 years, some of which were titled Post Porn Modernist, Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn, Hardcore from the Heart. She then performed two-women shows with Beth Stephens titled Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art, Dirty Sex Ecology, Earthly: An Ecosex Bootcamp, and Ecosex Walking Tour.

1973

Sprinkle has also long championed sex worker rights and health care. She has also worked as a prostitute from 1973-1992.

1975

As Ellen Steinberg, Sprinkle began working at the ticket booth at Tucson's Plaza Cinema at 18, when Deep Throat was playing. The film was busted, and when Steinberg had to appear in court as a witness, she met and fell in love with Deep Throat's Director, Gerard Damiano, and became his mistress, following him to New York City, where she lived for twenty-two years. Not long after becoming Damiano's mistress, Steinberg began working in porn herself and, at that time, started calling herself “Annie.” (Below can be found more details about the stage name she adopted.) Annie's first porn movie was Teenage Deviate, which was released in 1975. Perhaps her best known mainstream porn featured role was in Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle (co-directed by Sprinkle and sexploitation veteran Joseph W. Sarno) which was the No. 2 grossing porn film of 1981.

1991

In 1991, Sprinkle created the Sluts and Goddesses workshop, which became the basis for her 1992 production The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop – Or How To Be A Sex Goddess in 101 Easy Steps, which was co-produced and co-directed with videographer Maria Beatty, and featured music by Composer Pauline Oliveros. Sprinkle pioneered new genres of sexually explicit film and video such as edu-porn, gonzo, post porn, xxx docudrama, art porn, and feminist erotica. Sprinkle has also presented many sex workshops with fellow sex facilitator Barbara Carrellas, with whom she presented the stage production Metamorphosex.

1992

She starred in Nick Zedd's experimental films War Is Menstrual Envy (1992), Ecstasy in Entropy (1999), and Electra Elf: The Beginning (2005).

2005

Sprinkle's work has always been about sexuality, with a political, spiritual, and artistic bent. In December 2005, she committed to doing seven years of art projects about love with her art collaborator and eventual wife, Beth Stephens. They called this their Love Art Laboratory. Part of their project was to do an experimental art wedding each year, and each year had a different theme and color. The seven-year structure was adapted to their project by invitation of Artist Linda M. Montano. Sprinkle and Stephens have done twenty-one art weddings, eighteen with ecosexual themes. They married the Earth, Sky, Sea, Moon, Appalachian Mountains, the Sun, and other non-human entities in nine different countries.

2009

Sprinkle identifies as a sex-positive feminist, and much of her Activist and sex education work reflects this philosophy. In 2009, she appeared in the French documentary film Mutantes: Punk, Porn, Feminism, speaking about the beginnings of the movement as well as her own contributions to it.

2017

In 2017, Sprinkle and her wife/collaborator Beth Stephens were official artists in Documenta 14, widely considered to be the most significant art exhibition in the world. They presented performances and visual art, lectured, and previewed their new film documentary, Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure.

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