Belladonna
Why Belladonna is included
Belladonna leads this page on the strength of the single strongest credential this research found anywhere in this category: Belladonna's Foot Soldiers won Best Foot/Leg Fetish Release at the 26th AVN Awards (January 10, 2009), a juried category this page's prior edition did not know existed, confirmed directly against that ceremony's own Wikipedia page.
That is a real, dated, named-after-her AVN win, the same evidentiary shape as the "Squirtwoman"-franchise credits this site's squirting-pornstars page documents for a different act.
She carries measured branded search volume in this site's demand dataset (590/month) and is already ranked in full on this site's hardcore-pornstars and top-pornstars pages, among others, on the strength of a broader career that includes AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame induction; this page argues a narrower, separate case.
Career and credits
Career
Michelle Sinclair was born into a large Mormon family in Salt Lake City and began performing in Los Angeles in 1999 at eighteen. She built a dual career as an award-winning performer and as director-producer of her own titles, culminating in the 2009 AVN Female Performer of the Year award. She retired from on-camera work in July 2012, stating she was no longer interested in performing, and pursued mainstream acting including Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice.
Signature: One of very few performers to hold a top on-camera award and a substantial credited career directing and producing her own material.
Best known for
Studios
Award record
- 2011AVN — Hall of Fame
- 2013XRCO — Hall of Fame
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- 2009AVN — Female Performer of the Year (nomination)
Beyond performing
- Independent director and producer
Mainstream credits
- Inherent Vice (2014)
- The Ladies of the House (2014)
Official links
Sources and verification1 source
- Exact birth date from Wikidata; Wikipedia gives “1980 or 1981”






































