The Best Dutch Pornstars, Ranked

Career

Born Elizabeth Jongkind in Lelydorp, Suriname, Campbell moved to the Netherlands at age two and was raised in Arnhem. She entered the adult film industry in 1996 at age 22, working chiefly for the Swedish studio Private Media Group under director Pierre Woodman, with credits including Tatiana 1 (1997), Fatal Orchid 2 (1998) and Private Life of Bettina (2001). She left the industry in 2003, though compilations of earlier material continued to circulate afterward. She is fluent in Sranantongo, Dutch, English, French and German.

Signature: A Surinamese-Dutch performer whose career ran almost entirely through one Swedish studio's productions under a single recurring director.

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Studios

Career

Born Romy van Klei in Gorinchem, Indy competed in the Miss Beauty of Utrecht pageant in 2018 before entering the adult film industry in 2021. At the 39th AVN Awards in January 2022 she won Best New International Starlet, becoming the first Dutch performer to win an AVN Award. She was nominated for Female Performer of the Year at the following year's ceremony.

Signature: The only performer on this list with a competitive AVN Award win, and the first Dutch national to take one.

Career

Born in Amsterdam, Summers completed studies in beauty, makeup, massage and PR and worked at Hooters before winning a Penthouse competition, which led to spreads in Playboy, Hustler and Club. Active in adult film from 2000, she also directed and produced her own work. Her father is Aruban and her mother is of French-Hungarian descent. Following her retirement from performing, she chose to keep a low public profile, citing concerns about stalking.

Signature: A Penthouse Pet of the Year title that led into more than a decade of both performing and producing.

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Career

Born Yvonne Meulendijk-van Zelderen in Gouda, Holland is a former Dutch adult film performer who moved into production, internet publishing and magazine columns, writing for FOK! and Foxy Magazine. She owned the Scheveningen venue Club Live until 2005, co-founded the television channels Meiden van Holland Soft and Meiden van Holland Hard in 2010 and a companion digital channel for Flemish audiences, Vurig Vlaanderen. In 2004 she published SexPower, a book on sexual confidence for women, and appeared in Dutch reality programming including Op z'n Hollands and Een uurtje ondeugend. Since 2015 she has run an independent coaching practice on relationships and sexuality.

Signature: Built a media brand of her own name — television channels, a self-authored book and a coaching practice — after stepping back from performing.

Beyond performing

• SexPower — sexueel zelfvertrouwen voor vrouwen (book, 2004)
• Club Live, Scheveningen (venue, until 2005)
• Meiden van Holland Soft / Meiden van Holland Hard (television channels, 2010)
• Vurig Vlaanderen (digital channel for Flanders)
• Relationship and sexuality coaching practice (from 2015)

Mainstream credits

• Op z'n Hollands (reality television)
• Een uurtje ondeugend (television)

Career

Born Esther Kooiman in 's-Gravendeel, Whites moved to Italy in 1989 and appeared as a ragazza cin cin (a full-contact topless dancer) on the television show Colpo Grosso before making her pornographic film debut in 1990 with the American bondage-and-discipline title The Challenge, directed by Bruce Seven. She appeared in 27 adult films through the 1990s, also modelling for Penthouse, Playboy and Hustler, and starred in the French TV series Joy for M6 and the film La Dresseuse (1998). She later became a vegetarian and animal-rights activist, taking part in a 2006 PETA demonstration in Rotterdam, and published an autobiography, Je suis Zara Whites mais je me soigne, the same year. In May 2011 she became national secretary of the French green party Alliance Écologiste Indépendante and stood as a candidate in French legislative elections. She now lives south of Paris.

Signature: A performer whose second act was national politics — secretary of a French green party rather than any conventional industry crossover.

Best known for

Beyond performing

• Je suis Zara Whites mais je me soigne (autobiography, 2006, with Ludovic Menguy)

Mainstream credits

• Joy, French television series for M6
• National secretary, Alliance Écologiste Indépendante (2011)
• Candidate, French legislative elections

Career

Born Bernadette Heesink-Friebel in Edam, Duval entered the adult industry as a magazine columnist writing under the name Helena, illustrating her columns with increasingly explicit self-photography before appearing in publications including Hustler, Playmen and Mayfair. She moved into film acting in 1993, adopting the stage name Helen Duval for its international appeal, and worked mainly for Swedish, German and Dutch producers over the following decade. Beyond performing, she also worked as a producer and director for her own studio, Helen Duval Entertainment. Her final screen credit was the 2003 film Ice & Fire.

Signature: One of the few performers on this list who moved from writing to modelling to acting, then to running her own production outfit.

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Beyond performing

• Helen Duval Entertainment (production)

Career

Born Miggy de Koning in Breda, King worked as a teenage photo model before appearing in Stoute Tijden Geile Tijden, described by Dutch Wikipedia as the first Dutch pornographic web soap. From 2004 she performed in American adult and softcore productions, and also appeared in late-night Dutch commercial-television advertisements for sex hotlines. She is the daughter of singer Miggy, known in the Netherlands for the 1980s single "Annie hou jij mijn tassie effe vast." She retired from the industry in 2009.

Signature: One of the few performers here whose career began on a homegrown Dutch web series rather than a magazine or studio casting.

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Mainstream credits

• Late-night Dutch television commercials for sex hotlines