Julia Ann


Julia Ann Tavella is an American pornographic actress and feature dancer. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.

Career

By age 18 Julia Ann started modeling, then became a professional mud wrestler in Hollywood before becoming one half of the popular touring strip club feature act Blondage, with Janine Lindemulder, in the early 1990s. Their success led to offers to join the adult film industry.
Julia Ann debuted in adult films in 1993 in Andrew Blake's Hidden Obsessions, in a lesbian sex scene with Lindemulder. She was under contract to Wicked Pictures in 2006, but in May 2007 she posted on the members section of her website that she had not renewed her contract with Wicked.
She has worked as a make-up artist.
She has referred to fellow pornographic actress Christy Canyon as one of her "idols" in the business.

Appearances

Julia Ann has also made appearances as herself on television shows, series, and documentaries such as Rated A for Adult, Night Calls, Give Me Your Soul..., Dreamwagon: Inside the Adult Industry, VS., The Man Show, and How They Make Adult Movies.
In 1989, Julia Ann appeared in the film American Angels: Baptism of Blood.

Awards

AVN awards

Ann grew up around animals and developed a love for horses; she also took piano lessons and learned to swim "like a fish." At age 12 she moved to Idyllwild, California, where she attended a college-prep school before moving back to Los Angeles to live with her grandmother at age 17.
Ann married adult film director Michael Raven on June 21, 2003, divorcing in 2007. Besides breast enlargement, Julia Ann also had labiaplasty and a nose job to remove the after-effects of a broken nose suffered when a horse kicked her in the face.