- Born
- Birth nameMarie Louise Hartman
- Height5′ 4¼″ (1.63 m)
- Nina Hartley was born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959, in Berkeley, California. After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, Nina attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate school of nursing and graduated in 1985. Her career in the adult-entertainment industry began while she was in her sophomore year of nursing school, when she started work as a stripper at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, Her adult-film debut came in Educating Nina (1984), which was produced and directed by veteran porn star Juliet Anderson, better known as "Aunt Peg". In 1997 Nina appeared in Boogie Nights (1997) playing William H. Macy's serially unfaithful wife.
- IMDb mini biography by: tony.r.vario@gmail.com (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpousesErnest Greene(July 7, 2003 - 2019) (divorced)David Arthur Carr(July 31, 1986 - 2003) (divorced)
- Blonde hair and blue eyes
- Her family was originally from Alabama, and her grandfather was one of the lawyers who defended the black teenagers accused (as it turned out, falsely) of raping a white woman in the infamous 1931 "Scottsboro Boys" case in Alabama.
- Switched from nursing to pornography because she couldn't handle seeing people die.
- Is a registered nurse.
- Holds a bachelor's degree in nursing.
- Said in an interview that she chose the name "Nina" because it was easy for Japanese tourists to say during the time she was a dancer in San Francisco. She chose "Hartley" because she liked the popular camera commercials Mariette Hartley was making with James Garner at the time.
- The idea that a woman could choose, on purpose, to perform in pornographic videos for her own reasons still goes deeply against the notion that women are somehow victims of male sexuality, that they're delicate flowers who need the protection of a good man or the law.
- If we accept that a young women can consent to have an abortion or become a parent, then it stands to reason that we must accept that she can consent to make pornography. Of all the branches of sex work available porn is the safest, so it's legal to make and we have an excellent testing program in place.
- Sex isn't something men do to you. It isn't something men get out of you. Sex is something you dive into with gusto and like it every bit as much as he does.
- Everyone has herpes. That is a risk I will undertake.
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