Ginger Lynn
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| Birthdate: | December 14, 1962 |
| Birth location: | Rockford, Illinois, USA |
| Birth name: | Ginger Lynn Allen |
| Years active: | 1982 - 2005 |
| Measurements: | 34B-24-34 |
| Height: | 5 ft 3 in (1.6 m) |
| Weight: | 110 lbs (50 kg) |
| Eye color: | Blue |
| Hair color: | Blonde |
| Skin color: | White |
| Natural bust: | Yes |
| Tattoos: | Kissing lips tattoo on right buttock, small tattoo right ankle |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
| Stage Name(s): | Ginger Lynn, Ginger Allen |
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Background
Allen was born to 18-year-old dock supervisor Wayne Allen and 19-year-old switchboard operator Marilyn Allen née McBride. Life in the Allen household ranged from dysfunctional to pathological, where she was subject to child abuse, mainly by her mother.
When Allen's father left in 1968, the abuse worsened as her mother blamed her for all her problems. Her only refuge was Wayne Allen's parents, who gave her emotional support and positive reinforcement. However, her mother controlled the visits. Also, Allen had very few friends during her childhood, resulting in the creation of imaginary friends, who seemed very real to her. Her grandmother recounted that this lasted "a very long time."
Allen attempted suicide in 1974, using sleeping pills and other over-the-counter medications that belonged to her mother. She recalled that she was in a catatonic state for about three days. Her mother did not help her in any way during that time. Shortly thereafter, her grandparents took her away from her mother when the grandfather, by chance, called the house and heard Lynn screaming in the background.
At 13, she had a boyfriend who was a drug addict. Through this boyfriend, she not only began her descent into substance abuse, but also became pregnant, and later aborted the pregnancy. This older boyfriend, whom she met in a park, became her first serious love interest. She saved her money in the hopes of one day marrying him.
Her grandmother introduced her to contraceptive devices after discovering her sexual activities. During her youth, she was attracted to older men not in school who were mainly abusive.
After graduating in 1981, she moved out of her grandparents' house; her grandparents subsequently moved to Lucerne Valley, California. While she stayed in Rockford, she worked at a Musicland store as assistant manager and a bar waitress at night.
Adult film career
Allen moved to California in 1982 after hearing about her grandfather's heart attack, and he died, she became angry at him for leaving her when she needed help the most in her life. However, her grandfather was the only positive male role model in her life.
A friend of hers, Brian, came to live with her and became the "first nice boyfriend" she ever had. However, Lynn was the major financial supporter in the relationship and needed to find a better-paying job. When she answered an advertisement from the World Modeling Agency in September 1983, she was immediately hired and did a spread for Penthouse. This made her visible to the adult film industry.
She did some nude modeling work and then began performing in adult films using the name Ginger Lynn in December 1983. Her first film was Surrender in Paradise, where she starred with Jerry Butler and celebrated her 21st birthday in Hawaii.
Allen quickly rose in popularity, and eventually became one of the biggest stars in adult film history, making 69 adult films. She had her own line of videos through Vivid Entertainment with director Bruce Seven. Allen received the AVN Best New Starlet Award in 1985 from the Adult Video News and is an inductee to the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame. Allen's best work is in the award-winning Ten Little Maidens. Other career highlights include her performance as the neighbor who introduces Tom Byron to sex in Kinky Business and her work in Slumber Party with Eric Edwards.
Part of her early popularity stems from her common trait of performing anal sex and double penetration. In the early 1980s adult film market, these acts were relatively rare, especially among big-name porn actresses of her caliber. She also regularly performed at least one lesbian scene per film, which made her popular among fans. Allen's work was also distinguished by explicit and inventive "dirty talking" during her performances.
She was the first Vivid Entertainment Vivid Girl, beating out Traci Lords. She was later called to testify on Lords' behalf against porn producers; she refused, and according to her, she was then targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for falsification of a tax return. She also had a sex scene with well-known porn star John Holmes early in her career, in the Mitchell brothers' The Grafenberg Spot, in which she also co-starred with porn superstars Harry Reems and Annette Haven.
After ending her porn career, she began using her full name of Ginger Lynn Allen and found work in a variety of B-movies. She was Charlie Sheen's girlfriend for from 1990 to 1992, and had a long-term relationship with Los Angeles radio personality Ralph Garman.
Lynn had a late career comeback to the porn industry and made a short series of movies: In December of 2005, Ginger Lynn appeared in American Pie: Band Camp (2005) playing the supporting role of Nurse Sanders. In March 2006, Ginger became a host of Playboy Radio's Sirius Satellite Radio show, Night Calls Radio, alongside Christy Canyon.
Trivia
- In 1991, Allen was convicted of falsifying a tax return and spent seventeen days in jail. She also spent time in a rehabilitation center during this period because of cocaine abuse.
- Allen starred in the music video for Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's Turn the Page.
- Allen's looks during the height of her porn career (1984-1986) were loosely modeled after the singer Madonna.
Partial Adult Filmography
- Fire Bush (2004)
- Sunset Stripped (2002)
- Taken (2001) - AVN Awards 2002 as Best Actress Film.
- Ginger Lynn's Torn (1999)
- Ginger Lynn: America's Sweetheart (1992)
- Doctor X Ginger (1990)
- Ginger Lynn & Co. (1990)
- Ginger's Sex Asylum
- Ginger And Spice
External links
- Ginger Lynn: Information & Biography
- Night Calls Radio Playboy Radio, hosted by Christy Canyon and Ginger Lynn
- Ginger Lynn Interview
