Aja

Biography

Aja (July 14, 1963 – September 18, 2006) was the stage name of an American pornographic actress, adult film director, and exotic dancer. Aja starred in director John Leslie's Adult Video News' Best Video of the Year award-winning Mad Love (1988) in a scene described as "notably [...] surreal" by author and Ohio University Telecommunications graduate studies director Joseph W. Slade. AVN later declared the film one of the 500 best of all time, also describing Aja's scene as "strange"; she starred in two others among their 500 best, Alex deRenzy's Ghostess with the Mostess and Paul Thomas' The Naked Stranger, all in her first year as a performer, winning AVN's "Best New Starlet" in 1989. In 1990, she starred in director Sharon Kane's Stairway to Paradise, a film that was the subject of a study by University of California, Los Angeles professor of psychiatry and human sexual relations specialist Robert Stoller. In casting the film, writer Jim Holliday "wanted Aja in the worst way and Sharon agreed. Aja is very box-officeable." According to the Internet Adult Film Database Aja stopped filming new scenes in the early 2000s, though videos that feature her performances continue to be r…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Mad Love (1989) — Woman
2. Swedish Erotica 16 (2003) — (archive footage)
3. Prom Girls (1988) — Cuddles
4. Backfield in Motion (1990)
5. The Ghostess with the Mostess (1988) — Honey
6. The Case of the Sensuous Sinners (1988) — Fawn Angel
7. My Bare Lady (1989) — Mrs. Fierce
8. The Book (1990) — Servant
9. Stairway to Paradise (1991) — Windstorm
10. Silver Seduction (1992)
11. Naughty Neighbors (1989) — Gail
12. UninhiBIted (1989)
13. Angel Rising (1988)
14. Sextectives (1989)
15. Brat Force (1989) — Mrs. Foxworthy
16. Temptations (1990) — Phyllis
17. Angel of the Island (1989) — Shala
18. Seduction (1990)
19. Still the Brat (1988)
20. Pumping Ethel (1989) — Tammy Sue
21. Kascha and Friends (1988)
22. Invasion of the Samurai Sluts from Hell! (1989) — #1 Slut
23. The Only Game in Town? (1991) — Lydia
24. Surveillance (1997)
25. Dirty Diane (1989) — Non Sex
26. Paris Burning (1989) — Valerie
27. Girls of Double D 4 (1988)
28. Risqué Business (1989)
29. Black Widow (1988)
30. Blue Angel (1992) — Venus
31. Family Thighs (1989)
32. Snatched (1989) — Ellen Smits
33. The Mystery of the Golden Lotus (1989)
34. The De Renzy Tapes (1990)
35. Girls of Double D 9 (1989)
36. The Last Temptation (1989) — Kathy
37. 69 Pump Street (1988)
38. The Last Temptations of Kristi (1988)
39. The Brown Eye 4 (1995) — (archive footage)
40. This Dick For Hire (1991)

Directed

1. Anal Angels 2 (1990) — Director
2. Candy Ass (1990) — Director
3. Outback Assignment (1991) — Director
4. Con Jobs (1990) — Director
5. Aussie Exchange Girls (1990) — Director
6. Hidden Pleasures (1991) — Director
7. Sexual Healer (1991) — Director
8. College Girl (1993) — Director